Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
United States of America
45 Main Street, 9th Floor 11201 Brooklyn, NY
Overview
Details
This opportunity is intended to give active students exposure to the operations of a professional architecture environment. Candidates with a graduate degree are ineligible; candidates with a B.Arch who are not currently enrolled in a graduate program are also ineligible. Those that are ineligible will not be considered.
Join BIG!
BIG is a group of 700+ architects, engineers, urbanists, inventors, researchers and business minds from all over the world who are based in our Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona offices. Our built work ranges from the most diverse urban playground and Michelin-star dining - to affordable housing and a school among the verdant fjords of the Faroe Islands. Our vision spans traveling at supersonic speed with Hyperloop One to living in floating cities and eventually Mars! While we are led by a group of expert partners, directors, and associates - a flat hierarchy and collaborative spirit are essential to our BIG ecosystem. We are infectiously ambitious and unified by the shared mission to craft the world we want to live in and to give form to our future one project at a time..
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Requirements:
- Must be an architecture student with at least 3 years of school experience
- Skilled in Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite and visualization i.e., Enscape, V-ray, etc.)
- Experience with physical model making
- A flexible attitude towards new ways of working
- Ability to take initiative in response to direction or instructions
- Great interpersonal communication skills
- Available for at least 6 months
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
Compensation for Design Assistants is $18 per hour, plus overtime.
At BIG, we value and encourage the following qualities:
- Be proactive – take initiative, do research, and don’t be afraid to try new things; prevent issues rather than fixing them
- Be reliable – be someone leadership can trust to deliver on any task
- Be accountable – from the big picture to the day to day, from production and team morale to liaising with Ops, own the decisions you make
- Be consistent – prove you can do it, and then do it again and again
- Be tenacious – be committed, show up, contribute with passion, do your best, get stuff done, and don’t give up
- Be independent – don’t be afraid to ask questions, but be able to take a task or project and run with it
- Be clever – be smart, know your stuff, think critically, keep the big picture in mind, figure things out and look up new knowledge, stay updated and be curious
- Be nice – be a team player and a good colleague, be honest, respect your peers, don’t take yourself too seriously, and have fun!
- Be generous – share your knowledge and skills with other BIGsters, and mentor others when you can
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