Project Architect & Revit User

Paul Davis Architects Employer:
Los Angeles, CA, USLocation:
Tue, Nov 19 '19Posted on:
Full-timeType:

PDA is a published, award-winning architecture office in the Rancho Park (adjacent to Westwood/Century City) area of West LA.  PDA's work includes modern single-family residential projects, commercial/office work, adaptive re-use, and contextually sensitive renovations. We advocate for sustainability in all projects. We are dedicated to ambitious design with carefully considered detailing. Our projects demonstrate an acute consciousness of spacial quality and visual/material texture as it impacts day-to-day life and work.

Position now open: Project Architect with 8-10+ years experience in all phases of custom residential and commercial work (ideally including exposure to mid-rise office/multifamily) at US offices. 

PDA creates working drawings with AutoCad, on Mac platform.  We are integrating Revit (BIM) into our project work.  Best-qualified applicants for this position will be skilled Revit users in addition to having extensive facility with 2D drawing platforms.

This position also requires:

• Very strong design skills and ability to represent project design ideas at small and large scale through hand-sketching and digital methods (2D and 3D).
• Substantial project management experience (coordinating client contact and the roles of consultants and contractors in guiding a project to completion) including construction administration of single-family residential and/or commercial work in field and office
• Ability to direct and carry out the assembly of design presentation drawings, and filing, pricing, and CD sets with guidance as to office standards for basic formatting and necessary contents. Applicants should have solid working familiarity with relevant local codes and permitting processes.
• Excellent english written and oral communication skills, as well as strong organizational abilities
• Facility with Adobe Suite, Sketchup, Rhino, and/or other Mac-platform rendering software 
• This position will feature drawing/drafting and collaboration with other project team members in creating drawing sets
• Applicants must have a professional degree from a credentialed US academic institution (college/university).  No applicants without US work visas. We encourage licensed applicants.

Insight, experience, and enthusiasm for appropriate detailing (in modern and contextual modes) is desired in a successful applicant. 

PDA endeavors to create a challenging and supportive work environment, where staff learn, grow and share their experience with others, while accepting responsibility commensurate with their ability to contribute. As a component of our working process, we cultivate a sustained dialog among ourselves and our project partners about the role of design and architecture in other cultural and political endeavors, both locally and beyond. 

We appreciate your inquiry about this position and PDA.

Please submit a brief cover letter, resume, and graphic samples showing relevant professional and academic work (including CD/detailing excerpts and hand sketch samples; pdf format not exceeding 5MB, please) to:

contact@pauldavisarchitects.com

Insert "Project Architect" in subject line.

No calls or visits, please.

We will respond to applicants whose materials demonstrate that they meet the above requirements.