Following last week’s look at an opening for a VDC Coordinator at Assembly OSM, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for an Architectural Designer at Vessel Technologies.
The successful candidate will join Vessel’s team in New York City, where they will work on the design, manufacturing, and development of apartment buildings produced by Vessel’s patented system. Specifying the need for a "visionary architect," the company sees its ideal candidate as someone who is "tired of being a consultant" and will instead "embrace cutting-edge technologies and new methodologies."
Why the role interests us
The open role at Vessel is the latest in a long list from our Job Highlights series where architecture and real estate firms are seeking novel answers to the U.S. housing crisis, with other examples including a SHoP-born high-rise disruptor, an emerging ADU design platform, and a digital-first modular design studio in Los Angeles.
At Vessel, which describes itself as the “multi-family industry’s first franchising opportunity,” the company is seeking to address the housing needs of the “missing middle,” those who earn too much to qualify for subsidized housing but too little to afford market-rate options.
In addition to partnering with community leaders to understand housing needs in individual areas, and offering individuals the option to become investors and operators in the resulting developments, the company is developing a patented housing system that it describes as “beautiful, luxurious, sustainable, healthy, safe and attainably priced,” leading to their current search for a “visionary architect” to advance the product.
“We are looking for ‘unconventional’ architects who are interested in bridging the divide between conventional architecture and product design/development,” Vessel’s founder and CEO Neil Rubler told Archinect when asked about their ideal candidate.
We are looking for ‘unconventional’ architects who are interested in bridging the divide between conventional architecture and product design/development
“Traditional architectural practice is hamstrung by squeezed budgets, compressed timeframes, an efficiency-sapping devotion to customization, and a ‘throw it over the wall’ relationship with GCs that’s rendered new housing production unaffordable to all but the rich,” Rubler continued. “At Vessel, architectural designers borrow strategies from related fields of automotive, aircraft, and nautical engineering to develop a building product that is thoughtfully studied, meticulously engineered, and ready for manufacture, so that we can achieve superior quality at a price that works for working people.”
Further reading for interested candidates
Job Highlights is one of a number of ongoing weekly series showcasing the opportunities available on our industry-leading job board. Our Meet Your Next Employer profiles and interviews interesting studios with open positions currently available on Archinect Jobs, while our weekly roundups curate job opportunities by location, career level, and job description.
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