Each week our editorial team curates a selection of featured jobs from the Archinect Job Board. Not only do we amplify firms and their open employment opportunities but help prospective job seekers learn what positions are available. Comparing the job market between Summer 2020 and Summer 2021 may not be easily summarized in just a few lines. However, the team at Archinect continues to observe employment and professional practice trends to provide resources for the community. This past week the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for June projected increasing demand for design services. Paired with a report from the Associated Builders and Contractors' (ABC) chief economist who shared the construction industry is rebounding despite issues with materials and skilled labor. As the
As developments in the industry continue to appear, firms seek architects, technologists, and design professionals as they prepare for Q4 and 2022. Learn about your future employer with 13 interviews conducted during Archinect's "How to get a job at_____" series, Archinect Studio Visits series, and Studio Snapshot series.
This week's curated job picks will feature interviews and podcasts with the leaders of these firms. Collectively, they discuss their respective practice's histories, studio cultures, projects, and what they seek in new hires.
Open Positions: Mid-Level Designer, Junior Designer, and Senior Designer
Job Location: Los Angeles, CA
Art history and architectural history backgrounds are often good for our world. An ongoing interest in visual culture also helps. They should have a sense of agency and be able to speak truth to power when necessary. - Barbara Bestor
Open Positions: Architect level I and Architect level II
Job Location: Miami, FL
The firm does not agree with pigeonholing anyone on a signal task or expertise level. Thus, everyone can achieve their highest level of experience without being limited by the firm's structure and design process. - Timothy Archambault (the firm's Director of North American Operations)
Open Positions: Specifications Specialist, Senior Energy Modeler, Senior Architectural Professional, and 9 other positions
Job Locations: Chicaco, IL; San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC; New York, NY
We’re looking to see how each candidate will collaborate within our collective practice. It is important not just to contribute as an individual, but to understand how each person’s effort makes a more successful team. - Carrie Byles (SOM Partner)
Open Positions: Architect/Designer, Intermediate Architect/Designer, Intermediate Architect, and Operations Associate
Job Location: Los Angeles, CA
...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 - Ma Yangsong
Open Positions: Processing Archivist, Social Media Coordinator, Design Architect, and Architectural Designer
Job Location: Sommerville, MA
At this point, it is full steam as we always did. But, also at this point, I have made a select group of my most experienced and trusted people equity owners. There is a team now that is committed to its future as I leave the scene. I think because the practice is not personally idiosyncratic, if I can put it that way, much of our design process is extremely open and discussed. - Moshie Safdie
Open Positions: (2) Interior Designers
Job Locations: Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
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. - Kulapat Yantrasast
Open Position: Designer, Visualization
Job Location: New York, NY
...it comes down to our design process and the opportunities available to a young designer coming into our office. We have a ground-up design approach, and we give our employees a lot of responsibility right from the start, which allows them to influence projects from the very beginning. - Lisa Schwert (Assoc. Principal at SHoP Architects)
Open Positions: Intermediate Architect and Junior Architect
Job Location: Los Angeles, CA
We really want a broad range of thinkers to make up our firm. With that in mind, we’re not just looking at where people went to school, but instead how their specific experience can lend itself to us putting together the best team of diverse individuals. At our firm, these team members come from a number of schools of thought and educational backgrounds. - Lorcan O'Herlihy
Open Position: Architect/Designer
Job Location: Houston, TX
We have to collaborate as well as make room for each person to evolve over time. We maintain these values in face of the many dehumanizing pressures of the systems and times within which we live. - Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh
Open Position: Intermediate Level Designer
Job Location: New York, NY
Something I say to my team is that you have to be able to read the city in order to write in it. I think of architecture as an act of writing in the city. And you can’t really do that if you haven’t read it. For me, that goes way beyond this idea of context. - Vishaan Chakrabarti
Open Positions: Proposal and Marketing Graphics Manager
Job Location: New York, NY
All experience, regardless if it is in the architecture profession, will have some form of relevance and should not be omitted. - Andrea Lamberti (Partner at Rafael Viñoly Architects)
Open Position: Senior Professional
Job Location: New York, NY
I believe architecture is strengthened, not threatened, by engaging with other fields. - Deborah Berke
Open Positions: Intermediate Designer/Architect, Marketing Manager, and Project Architect
Job Locations: Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
...for the next-gen, it was the same thing: We trust them, they're talented, they're honest, they're humorous. In a way, you don't want to pick yourself, but there are qualities that these people have that make us just trust them, you know? - David Ross (Founding Partner)
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