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Operating from offices in Tokyo, Paris, and New York, the Pritzker Prize-winning firm Shigeru Ban Architects is currently hiring an Architect/Designer at its NYC studio. Successful candidates have a minimum of eight years of experience working on projects during all phases of development, ideally within the cultural, community, or residential typologies.
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Will Mr. Ban be paying this actual applicant?
Also, why are we celebrating an office that deliberately takes on unpaid labour? Shameful to promote such unethical office.
The man is a celebrity humanitarian and is Japanese to boot. Aravena got a pass too, for only hiring unpaid interns until his office got called out publicly. But he got a pass earlier on by cozying up with the Pritzker committee and sporting renegade hairdo.
I've written this before, but about 13-14y ago, I attended a lecture by Aravena where he proudly claimed, when asked about his office providing low-income housing, that he deserves to be well paid for his efforts. Really threw me off. Can't look at his work (or Ban's) the same way.
Did Mr. Miyagi pay Karate Kid so he could learn karate?
Better than Steven Holl, who used to have employees pay him, by "offering" them accommodation and charging rent in return. The salary would obviously be Zero.
That's a poor analogy rando.
It’s a comparable master-apprentice situation in Japan... can’t simply project our western education system onto Japan and start judging them.
we projected our western system of capitalism onto them and so it seems insensitive to expect them to be immune to the problems that are inherently attached to system. Also Karate Kid was set in Reseda.
Any office that profits from unpaid interns is a shitty office. Anyone who supports unpaid internships (for any reason) is an unethical wanker. Anyone who worked unpaid internships has literally devalued themselves and gained negative experience.
rando, also know that most of Shigeru Ban's "apprentices" are from outside Japan. So unless they have loaded families, they will need some dough to survive. Green tea doesnt pay rent.
Its the NYC office of Shigeru Ban, not the Tokyo office. The Japanese professional and academic systems run by their own rules - and so be it. But this is for an US position in an US city.
Therefore monosierra I don’t know why again this talk about not paying is brought up...can’t people read the advert before going at it?
Non, I think you are just a little envious that you never took the opportunity to work for a guy like Shigeru Ban and are using the fact they have an open desk culture in Japan as an excuse to make yourself feel better about that missed opportunity and compare it with slavery and what not, no? Relax and have some ramen, it’s not the end of the world...
It’s a shitty work culture that does not need to be glorified or supported. It’s not a missed opportunity, and fresh grads need to know it’s not ok to be taken advantage of. Don’t know why that’s so hard to understand.
Fresh grads are not taken advantage of at all when they’re willingly apply for unpaid open desk positions...when they have all the choice in the world to apply elsewhere just the same
You really really really don't get it. Keep supporting archaic work practices. Just don't join the crowd in support of all the new grads when they complain about low-entry wages and requests for unions/basic rights. Shameful Rando and you should be ashamed to express such POV.
NS, just ignore Rando, he just likes being contrarian, possibly cuz no one will listen to him otherwise. Validating unpaid internship as a choice is pathetic, and really does not warrant discussion. I suspect Rando is also involved in such practices, living in his european utopia
I don’t have any problem with rich kids from the western world not getting paid for their apprenticeship in Japan...let them spend their trust fund what do I care. Those low entry wages here in our neck of the woods are in the same offices that pay their interns, ergo y’all are barking up the wrong tree(s).
Yep we're just jealous we're getting paid.
"rich kids from the western world not getting paid for their apprenticeship in Japan" maintains the high barrier of entry for non-rich kids that keeps our profession overwhelmingly white, male, and rich (born rich, not self-made).
They’re burning their trust fund to foam some models in an exotic context, what’s the big deal? There are plenty of paid positions for the rest of us left behind...as if the open desk policy in faraway Japan is to blame for the profession in the west being white, male and rich, that’s quite far fetched wouldn’t you agree?
if examples of trends were not examples of trends but in fact isolated incidents, you might have a point.
Those incidents are isolated to Japan, so my point still stands ;-)
But the salaries of their real staff are subsidised by the unpaid labour of the delusional rich-kids. Not good and not worthy of praise.
That’s socialism, personally don’t mind that the “real” staff gets paid from the trust fund of some delusional rich kid!
Unpaid internships at starchitect firms are in no way isolated to Japan. What are you even on about?
The master-apprenticeships, the so-called open desks are totally a typical Japanese thing...
You're the only one insisting on that distinction.
I know, can’t help it that others don’t have their facts straight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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