Yellow House Architects, PLLC | Intermediate Architect

About Yellow House:

Yellow House Architects is a Manhattan-based fellowship of design creatives with diverse voices, working collaboratively to realize our clients’ architectural vision. We offer highly personalized design service to clients in residential, hospitality, and commercial architecture. Our office is a gathering place where avid learners and thinkers share diverse points of view. For us, Yellow House is a forward-thinking space which fosters creative collaboration, expressed in the language of architecture.

About the Position:

Founded in 2020, YHA is looking for an Intermediate Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have solid experience in classical and traditional architecture. We look for people who are passionate about the art of architecture, enjoy working collaboratively on a shared vision, can work with a high level of detail and materiality when collaborating with top craftsmen, and embrace new materials and state of the art technology in their designs.

YHA offers a full benefits package and participates in mentorship programs, professional development, and educational initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Produce drawings with direction from the design team

2. Review redlines and incorporate into design drawings

3. Collaborate with the Project Manager to produce deliverable

4. Prepare for and attend meetings with clients and consultants, record decisions and issue notes

5. Participate in weekly coordination meetings with MEP and structural related disciplines

6. Attend site visits and evaluate site conditions and constraints

7. Adapt plans accordingly to resolve any problems that may arise during construction

8. Research current zoning and building code requirements

9. Survey new project sites and as-built conditions.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Four to five-plus years professional experience

2. Strong proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit

3. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word

4. Strong proficiency In Bluebeam a plus

5. Ability to multi-task and work within a team to meet deadlines

6. Good organizational skills with good oral and written communication skills

 Direct all inquiries to liz@yellowhousearchitects.com.

We are thrilled to share the news of an exciting project underway, co-lead by MWA Founder Nancy Kleppel! For nearly 5 years Nancy has been working on her first real estate development project as a co-founder of the ownership group, Live|Give|Play. The project, a 70-unit mass timber, Passive House rental apartment building in Northampton, MA, is through design development and entering the construction documents phase, planning for a spring 2023 groundbreaking.

Live|Give|Play was founded to transform how older Americans live with new buildings in walkable connected communities.

The challenge:

·      40 million baby boomers will turn 65 between now and 2030

·      30 million of them cannot afford to age in place due to insufficient post-retirement financial resources

The L|G|P solution:

·   Apartments in walkable neighborhoods of small cities

 ·  More vibrant lifestyles, lower costs, and greater sense of purpose than car-centric suburbs

The Live|Give|Play mission as carried out in the Northampton, MA development project concept has been lauded as a sustainable solution to a housing crisis for baby boomers by a number of publications, including Treehugger in this recent article, titled This Mass Timber Passivhaus Rental Building Is Perfect for Active Adults.

BKSK

With her strong professional background as a trained architect, with deep experience in business development, marketing and operations consulting, Nancy serves as serves as LGP’s architectural and design interface. In this role she recommended the architect for the project, BKSK Architects*, and has advised on team members and project participants throughout. As a project owner and sponsor Nancy participates in all design meetings and provides diverse advisory, moving the project forward on all fronts alongside partners David Fox and Patrick McDarrah.

At present L|G|P is pursuing equity investors and construction funding, learning about the twists and turns of the global economy along the way.

As Nancy says, “A career can take you to unexpected places where the thread connecting everywhere you’ve been to where you are currently going becomes apparent. Along the way you tie up all loose ends, bringing the pieces together, culminating in your life’s work. The feeling of pride and accomplishment and deep respect for all the people who played roles along the way is satisfying, humbling and awesome!”

*BKSK Partner, Julie Nelson will lead an MWA seminar alongside Nina Kinoti-Metz in January.

In case you missed it, The Architect’s Newspaper recently sat down with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects to discuss their winning design for the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Material Innovation at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Farrell and McNamara won the competition in 2020, the same year they won the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

At a time when the AEC industry is buzzing about mass timber as the only renewable building construction material, the recent article takes a deeper dive into the design of the building, calling it “the first building designed in North America to be a masterclass in timber”.

Grafton Architect’s design is a response to the challenge to provide a building that is “redolent of the qualities of the forest, one that imagines anew timber and wood as materials” and is “hewn, carved, jointed, woven, and assembled, layered, laminated”.

Learn more about the design by reading the complete article titled, How Do You Hang an Auditorium From a Queen Post Truss?

After the long holiday weekend, most of us are putting summer days behind us and are back to the reality of work and school.

Here is a bit of architecture school humor from Common Edge to brighten up your week and kick off the academic year, whether you are in the throes of your academic career or it is a distant, but surely unforgettable memory.

ENJOY!

WXY’s work has been recognized for its dedication to engaging, improving, and honoring public space. They design in conversation with the environment. They work to understand a context, and plan with community in mind. They challenge themselves to face the array of complex design problems and commit to solutions that forward a healthy and sustainable future.

WXY works at all scales. Whether designing public plazas and parks, intergenerational community centers or large-scale, affordable housing complexes, the WXY approach leverages the contributions of public and private partners to create spaces that promote both physical and economic wellness for the entire community.

WXY is currently hiring:

Senior Project Architect (10+ Years Experience) - New York

Urban Data Analyst - New York

Senior Urban Planner - New York

Learn more about these opportunities and how to apply here.