Continuing with our regional Spotlight on Los Angeles, we've selected 9 Los Angeles firms that are currently searching for the right candidate to join their team. 

During any job search, learning about your future employer and the culture of the offices they run is key. For this week's selection of curated job picks, we have also included interviews, podcasts, and studio visits with the leaders of these firms. Collectively, they discuss their respective practice's histories, studio cultures, and projects. 

Gehry Partners, LLP Seeks a Job Captain/Intermediate Architect, Senior Project Architect, Revit Content Specialist, and Project Architect/Senior Job Captain
Frank Gehry established his practice in Los Angeles, California in 1962.  The Gehry partnership, Gehry Partners LLP, was formed in 2002 and currently supports a staff of over 130 persons engaged in the design, documentation, and construction administration of significant and complex structures around the world, including museums, concert halls, entertainment, retail, housing, and mixed use. The firm is unique due to our emphasis on using 3D-modeling and software (CATIA, Digital Project, Revit and physical modeling) in the design and construction process.

Archinect Interview: "An Interview with Frank Gehry, Who turns 90 Today, Upon Receiving the Neutra Award for Professional Excellence

There is something about being insecure, I call it a healthy insecurity, because if you buy into all that stuff, it is downhill. You gotta stay hungry, you gotta stay searching” - Frank Gehry

Koning Eizenberg Architecture seeks a Marketing Coordinator and Graphic Designer
KoningEizenberg is a Santa Monica-based team of architects, planners, and designers that actively engage social and physical context to make architecture that counts by amplifying opportunities hiding in plain sight. We are a collaborative team interested in growing our expertise and influence to shape sustainable neighborhood and community settings. They are looking for motivated candidates to support the office in creating and maintaining graphic assets, business development, and marketing. The Marketing coordinator and graphic designer will work in tandem. 

Archinect Interview: KoningEizenberg on Designing with the Sun

Both Hank and I were first-generation Australians and grew up in tight-knit ethnic communities. Those roots also made us aware of what it was like to be an outsider, a position I think that heightens awareness and influenced our creative position

Morphosis Architects is hiring a Senior Project Manager & Construction Administration / Project Team Member
Morphosis is seeking a key project team member for a long-term Construction Administration position in its Culver City California office.  The position involves integration with a team supporting a large project currently in the early stages of construction overseas, with an expected completion date of 2024. They are also seeking a Senior Project Manager with a strong management experience on large planning projects for a position in its Culver City California office.  The position involves integration into a demanding and collaborative office environment and includes working closely with project principals, the design director and managing a large international engineering and consultant team.

Archinect Interview: Now and Then: Thom Mayne and Eui-Sung Yi on Archinect Sessions' season finale

Cherlap Hyman & Herrero is offering an Internship
Charlap Hyman & Herrero is currently looking for an exceptional designer / intern to join our very small but esteemed team as we continue to grow our practice in Los Angeles. CHH is a Los Angeles / New York-based architecture and design firm that takes a fully integrated approach to conceptualizing and executing spaces in their totality. Principals Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, AIA, whose backgrounds are in interior design and architecture, lead a practice that considers all aspects of the built environment, from site plan to furniture. Working in various typologies - including buildings, set designs, stores and houses - CHH endeavors to consider divergent art forms and the experiences of multiple senses. They aim to create spaces that become worlds unto themselves, with gesamtkunstwerk at the core of the firm's objective.

Archinect Interview: The Dazzling Work of Charlap Hyman & Herrero is What Happens When a Furniture Designer and Architect Team Up

We are comfortable with the size of our practice but might expand a bit. We have found that, with the right team and processes, we have been able to grow our firm's capabilities to meet the needs of larger and larger projects. Efficiency and leanness are very important to us.

MAD Architects seeks a Business Development/Marketing Coordinator
We are seeking Business Development / Marketing Coordinator with similar experience with architecture and design firms or a strong interest in the field. The positions will be based in MAD’s growing Los Angeles office. Responsibilities will include: research, outreach to potential projects and clients, preparation of BD and Marketing collateral, etc. Our current projects include high-rise, mixed-use developments and cultural centers across North America, Europe, and China. The ideal candidate should be extremely professional, possess strong communication skills and be familiar with architecture and development trends in the US and Canada.

Archinect Interview: A New Nature: Interview with Ma Yansong of Mad Architecture

instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space, and how you encourage people to live

Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects seeks a Design Technology Manager
The Design Technology Manager is responsible for technical project team coordination relative to the use of BIM, visualization and fabrication technologies throughout EYRC’s office. The Design Technology Manager will help facilitate workflow among multiple design and documentation platforms, and proactively support design teams. Will have client and partner interaction on a range of project types of varying size from schematics through construction administration.

Archinect Sessions: Talking Multicultural Modernism with Ehrlich Architects on Archinect Sessions Episode #12

Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP (SOM) seeks a Senior Digital Design Architectural Profession
An E-level Senior Digital Designer is a leader responsible for supporting project teams in the use of digital tools and processes, as well as keeping SOM at the vanguard in terms of implementing and exploring new digital tools and processes. A person in this role is expected to contribute to and execute those goals accordingly and organize their own efforts in doing so with periodic oversight from a Senior Digital Design Manager. They are emerging leaders, have a strong knowledge of architectural practice and have vested interest in how project data and knowledge is represented and managed.

Archinect Feature: The Origin Story of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Louis Skidmore (a.k.a Skid), as a young man with a fascination in architecture, began his hand as an engineer, studying electrical engineering at Bradley Technical College in Peoria, Illinois. But World War I called the aspiring student to arms...

Michael Maltzan Architecture seeks a Project Architect and Project Manager
Founded in 1995, Michael Maltzan Architecture is committed to the creation of progressive, transformative experiences that chart new trajectories for architecture, urbanism, and the public realm. The Los Angeles-based practice is dedicated to the design and construction of projects which engage their context and community through a concentrated exploration of movement and perception. The practice’s intensely collaborative studio culture is focused on developing partnerships across disciplines to integrate sustainability and architectural form.

Archinect Sessions: Michael Maltzan Envisions the Future of LA's Infrastructure

CalTrans used to dream at that scale. The highways, when they were being built, coming out of post-World War II, were seen as one of the most progressive civic governmental projects that was being done any place on the planet.

wHY Architects seeks an Interior Designer/Architect
wHY was founded by Kulapat Yantrasast in 2004 and has established itself in the international design vanguard for completing widely-acclaimed projects that serve the arts, communities, and the environment. Currently, the Los Angeles office is seeking an Interior Designer/Architect (8+years) with an interest in working in a multidisciplinary open office environment on a variety of projects. Ongoing projects in LA include art space renovations, a youth arts & culture center in the bay area, custom residences and some retail/mixed use projects.

Archinect Interview: “Talk About Why This Is the Office for You”: wHY's Kulapat Yantrasast Shares Job Application Tips and Life Lessons on Teamwork

We want someone who is design-savvy, and understands not just architecture, but how music and fashion and branding and architecture and urban designs and social issues all go hand in hand.

Assembledge+ seeks an Intermediate Architect
Assembledge+ is an architecture and urban planning firm noted for creating elegant and thoughtful designs that range from high-end residences, corporate buildings, interiors, and urban design. Located in Los Angeles, the firm is driven by a commitment to collaboration and craftsmanship, with the goal of creating enduring environments that are user-focused, innovative and sustainable. Assembledge+ has received numerous regional and national awards, including AIA/LA Residential Architecture Awards, Architizer A+ Award, and American Planning Assoc. Awards. The firm has an immediate need for a talented and driven Intermediate Architect with experience in commercial and residential design: both single-family and multi-family to join our Los Angeles based office.

Archinect Feature: Studio Visits: Assembledge+

You can't make them do creative work. You have to make them want to do creative work.

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects seeks a Junior and Intermediate Architect

Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) engages the ever-changing complexities of the urban landscape, embracing architecture’s role as a catalyst for change. With a conscious understanding that architecture operates within a layered context of political, developmental, environmental, and social structures, LOHA seeks to elevate the human condition via the built environment.

Archinect Interview: Archinect LAX >< DET Mini Sessions; A Conversation With Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy About His Approach to Architecture and Urban Design in LA and Detroit

The goal of our field is not so much about how to design a building as an isolated object, but how to use architecture as a tool for engaging in development, politics, and social structures, in order to amplify our urban landscapes and elevate the human condition. Those are the principles that drive our work.