Herman Coliver Locus Architecture

By design 100% of our clients are community-based. Our work is focused in two distinct realms: We balance the ardor and rigor of designing multi-family supportive housing with wrap-around social services for those most in need (low-income families and seniors transitional-aged youth people with disabilities and those experiencing homelessness) with the exhilaration of designing transcendent and exquisitely detailed sacred spaces and their attendant uses largely though not exclusively within the Jewish community. We are a team of 14 design professionals nationally recognized for our human-centered sustainable mission-driven work. We are most distinguished as a civic-minded community-oriented award-winning practice.

This year were actively working on the following projects:

• Supportive independent senior housing with child care on the Laguna Honda campus in SF
• 50 apartments of affordable family housing in Half Moon Bay
• Synagogue renovations in San Francisco and Carmel
• An early education and community center in the South Bay
• 136 supportive housing apartments in SF Mission neighborhood
• 175 apartments for low-income seniors with a community serving banquet hall in SFs Chinatown
• 56 supportive apartments in San Rafael
• 118 apartments of affordable family housing in Fremont

You would be working on one or more of the first three listed projects.

What we expect of you:

• strong design and communication skills
• extensive familiarity with how a set of construction documents is drawn & assembled
• an understanding of and curiosity for how buildings are built & detailed
• a dedication to issues of environmental sustainability & resource efficiency
• strong recently honed Revit AutoCad and Sketch Up skills (Photoshop In Design a plus)
• comfort with code analysis as well as Title 24 CalGreen and ADA regulations
• experience with Type I Type III and/or Type V construction
• an architectural degree from an accredited university
• comfort with directing/supervising those more junior
• prior multi-family residential and/or civic/institutional experience from SD through CA
• a thorough written and spoken command of the English language and architectural terminology
• a passion for your work
• a collaborative nature

What you can expect of us:

• opportunities to design
• the chance to engage with clients consultants contractors on job sites
• mentorship from firm leadership & more senior design and management staff
• a competitive salary based on level of experience as well as full benefits
• a sustainable work / life balance
• a non-hierarchical egalitarian work environment
• a casual yet rigorous studio culture
• a focus on continued education
• great stories

3 years of Architecture and Planning experience

3 years of work experience with Revit