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Six New York City-based firms with internships and job opportunities for recent architecture grads

2022-05-25T16:03:00-04:00

Continuing with our focus on highlighting employment opportunities for recent architecture graduates, we feature six New York-based firms that are currently hiring junior architects, architecture interns, and designers, on Archinect Jobs, to join their teams.

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Buro Koray Duman Architects seeks a Summer Architectural Intern

Details: "Büro Koray Duman Architects is an award-winning and design-focused architectural firm in New York City, creating spaces of cultural significance [...] We are a small office with a diverse portfolio in residential, commercial, and institutional projects that continues to expand. The position will be on-site in New York City. Interns will be asked to engage in a variety of tasks including presentation, physical model making, rendering, and drafting, depending on the immediate needs of the office. They are typically exposed to a variety of project types, scales, and project stages during t...

6 Los Angeles-based architecture jobs and internships for recent architecture graduates

2022-05-24T16:44:00-04:00

Are you a recent architecture graduate ready to embark on your career in professional practice? As the leading job board for the architecture industry, Archinect Jobs has a vast selection of new job listings each day for anyone looking for employment opportunities.

With our commitment to providing professional practice and employment-related news/resources to the architecture community, we're putting a special focus on job opportunities for recent graduates. This week we focus on six firms in the LA area seeking to hire the right candidate to join their team.

Echo at Rancho Mirage, by Studio AR&D Architects. Photo by Lance Gerber Studio

Studio AR&D Architects seeks an Entry-Level Designer I

Details: "We are seeking an Entry-Level Designer who can help contribute to the creative work coming from Studio AR&D Architects. Work tasks will include taking a project from conception through completion with lots of hands on experience and potential for individual growth." Learn more here.

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Do New Graduates Want More Money or More Time?

2019-07-26T15:48:00-04:00

Every summer, a new cohort of graduates enter the workforce. Eager to learn and grow, many will get their first taste of professional life. It is an exciting new chapter for many of them. But what are these emerging practitioners looking for in their new careers? As firms struggle with retention and talent acquisition, an understanding of what new graduates look for in an office can be a valuable investigation. What is it that they value most? Money over time? Or vice versa? And does one have to be had at the expense of the other?

Professor Ashley Whillans has a take. Her research shows a mix of values amongst students, some valued money more so than time and others time more so than money. This comes from many factors, such as the upbringing of the individual. "People who grew up in households that fought about money also are more likely to focus on money (versus time) as adults, even if they have a lot of money in the present," Whillans writes.

The professor discovered that over ...

SCI-Arc Celebrates a School Year’s Culmination and Welcomes Another

2017-10-03T12:37:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

Since its founding in 1972 as an independent school of architecture, SCI-Arc has developed a series of idiosyncrasies that have anecdotally permeated the broader architecture community. Prominent among these is hosting its cap and gown-less Graduation in the middle of September-- literally an hour after its last review of the academic year and a week after the first pin ups of the new school year. This means that September is the most dynamic time of the year at SCI-Arc as it concurrently welcomes in a new class of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and bids farewell to its latest generation of architects eager and ready to imagine and shape the future.

SCI-Arc’s 2017 graduation ceremony was held on Sunday, September 10 and featured a commencement address by architect Marion Weiss, cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI and B.Arch Graduate Deborah Garcia ’17.

A celebration of student ach...

Bummer: NY Fed Reserve reports high unemployment rates for recent architecture grads

2014-01-06T18:34:00-05:00

The New York Federal Reserve’s latest research report discusses a number of difficulties facing recent college graduates, including unemployment. [...] After dividing the pool into 13 different undergraduate majors, and using data from 2009 to 2011, some academic pursuits proved likelier to land graduates a job. [...] For instance, the unemployment rate for architecture and construction majors was 8%, likely related to the fate of housing-related sectors following the housing bust.

L.A. architecture school is poised to spread its wings

2012-12-26T01:33:00-05:00

Unlike more traditional colleges, SCI-Arc, as it is known, has no lawn or central quad to accommodate graduation ceremonies and other big events. The school uses the parking lot for such gatherings, but it lacks amenities and charm, despite remarkable views of downtown skyscrapers. Now an ambitious project is in the works to create what teachers and students believe will fill the need and become a landmark in a neighborhood that is morphing from gritty to artsy.

Netscape - SCI-Arc Graduation Pavilion

2011-11-21T19:11:00-05:00

Video documenting the development and fabrication of the 2011 SCI-Arc Graduation Pavilion by Oyler Wu Collaborative along with students at SCI-Arc.

Every year in early September, as graduate students at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles put the finishing touches on their thesis projects, a Sci-Arc faculty member and students prepare a temporary pavilion for the annual graduation ceremony. This year, faculty members Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu of Oyler Wu Collaborative, along with their students, designed a pavilion entitled Netscape for the event that stretches across the northern end of the SCI-Arc parking lot, providing seating for 900. Consisting of 45,000 linear feet of knitted rope, 6000 linear feet of tube steel, and 3000 square feet of fabric shade louvers, the pavilion creates a sail-like canopy of rope and fabric that floats above the audience. With its fabric louvers tilted toward the western sky, the canopy is designed to provide shade for the specific date and time.

Netscape utilizes a double layer of netting in varying configurations to create a three-dimensional field of ...