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6 Texas-based firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs

2019-12-19T11:00:00-05:00

A notable gem of the Southwest, Texas offers beautiful landscapes, a rich culture, and a one-of-a-kind building history. An area filled with traditional architecture, infrastructure, and eye-catching contemporary works, the state has lots to offer for those searching for work in terms of firm variability.

Below are six Texas-based firms looking to hire the right candidate to join their team.

Edgeland Residence by Bercy Chen Studio. Image © Chase Daniels

In case you missed it, check out last week's Austin job round up in conjunction with Archinect's Spotlight on Austin regional coverage, profiling current employment opportunities at Runa Workshop, Clayton & Little, LEVY Architects, A Parallel Architecture, Bercy Chen Studio, Sensory Interactive, and New Waterloo.

Financial Company Office Space in Beaumon, TX. Image courtesy of Huitt-Zollars, Inc./Architects

Huitt-Zollars, Inc./Architects is offering job opportunities in their Houston and Fort Worth offices
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David Adjaye's red concrete art museum, Ruby City, to open in San Antonio in October

2019-04-02T15:06:00-04:00

David Adjaye's ruby-red art museum in San Antonio, Texas is set to open to the public in October 2019. It is the Ghanian-British architect's first project in Texas. Famous for his behemoth buildings, Ruby City—which is described by Adjaye himself as a "very shy building"—offers a quiet stop in between his career-defining National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC and his next two projects, the U.K Holocaust Memorial and the National Cathedral of Ghana.

Ruby City. © Dror Baldinger. Courtesy of Ruby City and Adjaye Associates.

Nevertheless, the blushed building offers itself as a crown jewel to a Texan city looking to reactive itself after decades of sprawl. The art museum is designed with this urban future in mind and will be part of a growing campus, the brainchild of philanthropist and heiress to the Pace Foods fortune Linda Pace, whose meditation garden, Chris Park, and exhibitio...

Looking for an architecture job in Texas? Here are 13 exciting new opportunities in the Lone Star State

2019-02-20T14:53:00-05:00

Texas, one of the gems of the Southwest, offers beautiful landscapes and a one of a kind history. As far as notable buildings are concerned, Texas is home to Renzo Piano's Menil Collection, I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall, and Tadao Ando's The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. With structures as captivating as it's sunsets, Texas' architectural landscape showcases giants in the profession. Below are five Texas based firms looking to hire the right candidate to join their team.

Friend's Meeting House Image © Lake|Flato Architects

Lake|Flato Architects seeks an Intern Architect as well as higher level project architects in San Antonio and Austin
Lake|Flato Architects seeks a forward-thinking, energetic Interior Designer to join our award-winning sustainable design practice in our offices in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. Ideal candidates will exhibit a commitment to excellence in architectural interiors along with demonstrated experience in architectural interiors project workflow. Successf...

A look at some cities revitalizing their blighted rivers

2016-08-24T13:52:00-04:00

Los Angeles wants to rethink its river. [...] And LA isn’t the only metropolis looking to reclaim its once-mocked waterway. Cities around the world are realizing that water can be a cultural and recreational asset, not something to hide or pillage, and it seems no waterway will be wasted for long.

UTSA School of Architecture installation toppled by climber

2014-07-02T13:47:00-04:00

Architecture students at the University of Texas at San Antonio will have to go back to the drawing board in order to reconstruct their fallen class project in Travis Park. Weather conditions and probably someone climbing on the sculpture, called “F2,” factored into the collapse of part of the structure Saturday night. The 15-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide dome made of interlaced wood topped with white spikes has only been in the park since late May [...].

Texas library offers glimpse of bookless future

2014-01-07T19:27:00-05:00

Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store [...]. Even the librarians imitate Apple’s dress code, wearing matching shirts and that standard-bearer of geek-chic, the hoodie. But this $2.3 million library might be most notable for what it does not have — any actual books. That makes Bexar County’s BiblioTech the nation’s only bookless public library.