1 Preservation Architect Job in Washington, DC
QUINN EVANS is Hiring a Preservation Architect Near Washington, DC
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About Quinn Evans
Quinn Evans is a nationally recognized architecture and design firm and recipient of the American Institute of Architects' 2024 Firm Award. Our process is informed by the past to address today's complex challenges and design our shared future. We are technical experts, caretakers, conveners, and listeners. We identify the solutions that best serve the community and the long-term life of a place. We bring expertise in cultural and sustainable stewardship to every aspect of our practice and projects. Our projects encompass a variety of project types including public sites, museums, and visitor centers, civic, performing arts, educational, and hospitality, to multi-family housing.
Team building is critical to our practice. Together, we create better work and more fulfilling professional lives. We do this through a culture that fosters constructive engagement leveraging a diversity of staff, practice, client communities, and points of view.
Be a part of a collaborative and diverse team that is designing ways for places and people to thrive today and tomorrow. Quinn Evans is one of the largest women-owned design practices in the country. We take pride in our diverse team and workplace culture. We emphasize leadership, innovation, teamwork, and professional development. We offer competitive compensation, a supportive hybrid work environment, and opportunity to make a difference through work on unique and impactful projects.
We contribute to and advance our profession through sponsorship and team member leadership positions. This includes the American Institute of Architects, Association for Preservation Technology, membership in the President's Circle of the National Organization for Minority Architects (NOMA) and as a signatory of the 1.5°ree;C COP26 Communiqué.
Job Description
We are seeking a full-time Preservation Architect with 5 to 15 years of experience on a variety of projects across heritage, cultural, learning, and multi-family housing practice areas involving both new construction and adaptive use renovations. The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication, design, technical, and organizational skills and is experienced in all phases of design and construction. The position will require working closely with project team members and principals to successfully produce articulate and technically strong project documents to execute quality projects.
Responsibilities
- Participate in field assignments such as conditions and measurement surveys
- Prepare analysis of existing conditions and treatment options in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
- Participate in all stages of project development, performing conceptual analysis documentation assignments, and developing CDs elements with limited supervision
- Participate in design review and documentation to meet State Historic Preservation Office and consulting agency requirements
- Assist in the coordination of drawings and specifications
- Assist in construction observation activities and the development of associated field reports, RFI responses, submittal reviews, and ASIs
- Contribute to collaborative and effective working relationships with clients, the project team, and associated stakeholders
Qualifications
- An architectural degree and historic preservation degree or certificate with a minimum of 5 years of experience
- Proactive communication, collaborative problem solving, three-dimensional thinking, and self-direction
- Stewardship planning, writing, graphic analysis, and preservation design
- Working understanding of current and historic building and site technologies
- Proficiency with Revit, Sketch-up, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Office
Quinn Evans is an equal opportunity employer, offering employment to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation/gender status, Veteran's status, and disability. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage women and diverse applicants to apply.
Job Summary
Full Time
$81k-107k (estimate)
05/03/2024
05/20/2024
quinnevans.com
MADISON, WI
100 - 200
1984
MICHAEL QUINN
$10M - $50M
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About QUINN EVANS
Creators of vital places. We craft solutions that connect people to community, and history to future, for impact that endures. Quinn Evans is a full-service architectural firm with offices in Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan; Madison, Wisconsin; and Richmond, Virginia. . The experienced professionals at Quinn Evans are committed to elegance in design and well-crafted solutions that sustain and renew our built environment. To meet our clients needs, our comprehensive services include renovation and restoration of existing structures and sites, as well as the ...design of expansions and new structures. In addition to our full architectural services, we offer a diverse portfolio that combines context-sensitive and innovative designs with sustainable strategies. Sensitive planning and design solutions involve both the preservation and reuse of important buildings, as well as the development of new structures that complement and respect their surrounding environment. The firms portfolio has been honored with over 200+ awards for quality design, outstanding restoration work, and innovative approaches to adapting existing facilities for new uses. With over three decades of experience, QEs professionals combine expertise in renovation architecture with knowledge of the special issues involved in developing context-sensitive new construction. This enables us to renew important cultural landmarks while maximizing the structures economic viability and fostering community pride in the built environment.
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