von Staden Architects is a boutique architecture and design firm with a collaborative studio located in Royal Oak, MI. and a fabrication shop in Detroit, MI. 

Our practice focuses on creating environments that spark change, re-invention, and diversity within our community. Each project is responsive to its context. We discover through conversations and explore through story telling. Our work inspires building, creating, honing, restoring and thinking. It is informed by respect for making.

We are seeking a technically oriented, creative architectural job captain to join our collaborative studio. You will be a part of the design, documentation, and organization of a wide range of projects from small to large. Our work ranges from urban multi-family to high end residential to hospitality and corporate office. This position requires at least 5 years of full-time experience overseeing the development of project documentation from concept to construction. Qualified candidates should have a strong work ethic, an intrinsic curiosity about materials, wonder about how things are made and love the art of documentation. And have a sense of humor. 

Responsibilities:

• Site analysis, as-built documentation, drawing and document set-up
• Design documentation: sketching and modelling (both digital and physical)
• Construction documentation, drawing and detailing.
• Project communication including consultants, clients, and contractors

For more information, please send your resume and link to online portfolio to gail@vonstadenarchitects.com

Qualified applicants will be contacted via email. No phone calls, please. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Architecture, minimum
• Minimum 5 years experience in architecture or design firm 
• Strong proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino Revit, Sketchup, Adobe Suite
• Strong graphic presentation skills and a love for visual communication
• Technical detailing experience and understanding
• A quick mind and a sense of humor, and the ability to tell a good story
• Permanent work privileges in the US