Architectural Designer

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

You will work on tasks under the guidance of a Senior Designer or Architect. This is an intermediate level Architect Intern design role. You will be designing schematics specialized in space programming and site planning as well as developing elevations, sections, and architectural details for projects. You will be assisting with innovative and creative new prototypes, designed with sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Works directly with Design Architects in development of designs.
• Supports Design Architects in development of material for presentations.
• Assists in the development of a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats.
• Utilizes BIM technologies in development of three dimensional models of buildings and their components.
• Participates in design critiques and pin-ups.
• Interprets and applies building codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies.
• Ability to conduct space planning, block planning, and adjacencies in coordination with building program.
• Prepares and revises documentation in various architectural phases including site plans, floor plans, building elevations, building sections, and details.
• Coordinates building systems (structural, mechanical, electrical, etc.) to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Assists in the evaluation and selection of building systems and materials.
• Attends project coordination and meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants.
• Participates in value engineering and basic cost estimating.
• Implements sustainable design principles into the building design and surrounding environment.
• Assists in site analysis, research of concept, benchmarks, typology, and precedents.