What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer Architecture Fellowship position at Ballinger?
Job Description
At Ballinger, we are passionate about complex challenges and real-world problem solving. Design challenges come in all shapes and sizes, and the ones we prefer test us as design professionals. We seek out complex projects with a big impact because they require us to ask tough questions, synthesize data, and push past the boundaries of existing answers into the realm of innovative solutions. Ballinger team members thrive on those challenges because our clients do, too: our work for them enables their ambitious endeavors in science and medicine, research and government, manufacturing and technology. Ballinger welcomes ambition with career development, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. Hare ideas will always be more important than hierarchy because they result in buildings as transformative as the missions they serve.
Our interdisciplinary teams collaborate on solutions that require a synthesis of disciplines. We believe integrating architecture, planning, interior design, and engineering is key to achieving excellence in the design of transformative environments. We were one of the first firms to merge the disciplines into a professional practice. At Ballinger, architectural and interior designers work collaboratively and creatively with planners and engineers. Our range of skills, perspectives and experiences, directed toward a common goal, produces groundbreaking outcomes.
Responsibilities And Qualifications
Our Summer Fellowship offers the opportunity for students to become part of our innovative design practice. The selected Fellow will be immersed in our professional culture, a contributor on one or more projects and gain real-world experience while participating in a research initiative that is a collaboration with office leadership.
At Ballinger, we are passionate about complex challenges and real-world problem solving. Design challenges come in all shapes and sizes, and the ones we prefer test us as design professionals. We seek out complex projects with a big impact because they require us to ask tough questions, synthesize data, and push past the boundaries of existing answers into the realm of innovative solutions. Ballinger team members thrive on those challenges because our clients do, too: our work for them enables their ambitious endeavors in science and medicine, research and government, manufacturing and technology. Ballinger welcomes ambition with career development, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. Hare ideas will always be more important than hierarchy because they result in buildings as transformative as the missions they serve.
Our interdisciplinary teams collaborate on solutions that require a synthesis of disciplines. We believe integrating architecture, planning, interior design, and engineering is key to achieving excellence in the design of transformative environments. We were one of the first firms to merge the disciplines into a professional practice. At Ballinger, architectural and interior designers work collaboratively and creatively with planners and engineers. Our range of skills, perspectives and experiences, directed toward a common goal, produces groundbreaking outcomes.
Responsibilities And Qualifications
Our Summer Fellowship offers the opportunity for students to become part of our innovative design practice. The selected Fellow will be immersed in our professional culture, a contributor on one or more projects and gain real-world experience while participating in a research initiative that is a collaboration with office leadership.
- Responsibilities
- Contribute to projects, help to deliver on various project phases
- Work though a research project with a research lead
- Active and direct role in document production
- Interface and coordinate with other disciplines
- Develop knowledge of Ballinger’s project types (health care, academic/lab/research, corporate/workspace) through active engagement with project teams and leadership
- Presentation of work at an office-wide meeting
- Requirements
- Ability to take direction within a larger team
- CAD & Revit proficiency
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook: Microsoft Suite software proficiency
- Active role in drawing production, including but not limited to picking up redlines, quality assessment of individual work, coordination with other disciplines and coordination reviews and participation in team coordination meetings from SD through CA phases
- A working understanding of discipline’s drawing and graphic standards, adherence to standards for quality and consistency in Ballinger’s product
- Strong interpersonal skills, specifically communication, dependability, responsibility, and teamwork
- Coordination skills, specifically communication, organization, time management, and adaptability
- Experience
- 0-1 year of experience
- Education
- Enrolled as an Architecture Student undergraduate program, final year student or enrolled in a graduate program for architecture, interior design or a related field
- Team Structure
- Reports to the Studio Leader
- Resume
- Portfolio
- Cover Letter, including your relevant research and focused coursework and what you hope to achieve through this Fellowship
