• Job Description

  Req#: 479890

  Are you an enthusiastic student with big ideas for the built environment? Are you looking for a chance to work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and tackle some of the world’s most interesting design and planning challenges? Apply now for Sasaki's 2024 Architecture Summer Internship program!

  Sasaki interns get hands-on experience, develop valuable professional connections, and gain a deep understanding of how a leading firm operates and innovates. The interns will all be a part of project teams delivering real-world solutions and tangible productions. Specific information and project examples for architecture can be found at Sasaki.com. Interns will work on current Sasaki projects alongside our architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planners, urban designers, strategists, civil engineers, and graphic designers. While roles and responsibilities range based on the discipline and on-going project work of the firm at the time, interns can expect to be exposed to a rigorous and engaging design process, participate in work sessions and meetings as well as further their working knowledge of industry standard technologies, software programs, and best practices.

  An internship with Sasaki offers an invaluable opportunity for professional growth as well as a fun and memorable summer experience. When you work at Sasaki, you sign up to work alongside a diverse group of design professionals who are deeply committed to improving the world through design. We are proud of both the work and the culture we continuously cultivate here, supported by everyone's diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and interests. Sasaki is one of the leading multi-disciplinary design firms in the world, with 300+ employees based primarily in the Boston region and over 800 awards for excellence in our architecture, site, and planning and urban design practices.

  https://www.sasaki.com/practice/services/architecture/

  Qualifications:

  • Currently enrolled in, or recently graduated from an accredited institute and actively pursuing or newly possessing a degree in a field directly related to architecture
  • All years/classes (both undergraduate and post-graduate) are encouraged to apply - including recently graduated and masters students
    
    Proficiency in:
    -Communication and Presentation: Adobe and Microsoft suites, rendering, physical model making
    -Documentation: Revit and AutoCAD
    -Design: Rhino, SketchUp, Grasshopper, etc
    
    

  Interested? Here is what you need to know:

  • Location: Boston, MA
  • The summer internship is an in-person internship. Sasaki’s current policy is that employees collaborate in-person at least 3 days each week at the office.
  • 10-12 week program from June 3rd, 2024 - August 30th, 2024 (end dates will be determined based on academic need/requirements but start date is firm)
  • Applications close/due: Friday, January 19
  • Interviews: ~2/5 - 2/16
  • Notifications: ~2/19 - 2/26
  • $25/hr
    *Please note that while we'll try our best to adhere to these dates, slight changes based on amount of applications, total interviews, etc. may potentially delay response times*

  
  

  What you bring:

  • Design chops – you’ve got vision, creativity, and skills
  • Collaborative spirit – the idea of interdisciplinary teamwork gets you excited
  • Opinions – you have them and value sharing them with others
  • Passion – you have a healthy dose of ambition for yourself, your team, the work (and the firm you’ll come to love)
  • Proactive resourcefulness – you’re energetic and positive about solving problems and take initiative to find a way to ‘yes’
  • Growth-orientation – you’re curious and want to find greater ways to impact the world around you
  • Humanistic sensibility – you design for people and you generally enjoy working with others

  
  

  What you’ll do:

  • Develop and coordinate detailed design concepts
  • Perform production functions: drafting, documentation, and model creation
  • Prepare design presentation packages
  • Perform assignments including basic plans, elevations, renderings, square foot calculations, materials investigations and understanding where those fall within a project

  
  

  Candidates must upload:

  - Resume

  - Portfolio/Work Samples (**You may need to break up your portfolio into smaller pieces if over 10mb total**)

  - One faculty letter of recommendation (sent to: recommendations@sasaki.com)

  - Brief, one page explanation of goals and expectations for internship

  Please Note:

  You MUST apply through this career page!

  We make no promise your application will be reviewed if not submitted through the Sasaki career portal you are currently on - with the four components listed above.

  Complete applications are due by 1/19/2024. Please ignore any other posting expiration date on any site that is not Sasaki.com. If a posting does expire elsewhere, it will still be available and accessible at Sasaki.com.

  
  

• About the company

  Sasaki is an interdisciplinary design firm practicing Architecture, Interior Design, Planning and Urban Design, Space Planning, Landscape Architecture, Ecology, Civil Engineering, and Place Branding.

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