Alumni Conversations
Participate in an Alumni Conversation to meet alumni professionals and gain exposure to a variety of careers. Information on next week’s Alumni Conversationalists below.
Register through Engage (listed under Workshops).
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants.
NOTE: Registration closes 2 hours prior to the event.
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Monday, August 10, 1PM EDT
Virtual Event
Learn more about the work at SITU with Katie Shima, AIA ‘09 M.Arch, Director of Design, and Brandon Cook '00 M.Arch, Senior Project Manager.
Facilitated by Nika Teper '20 M.Arch.
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Thursday, August 13, 12:30 pm EDT
Virtual Event
Zarith Pineda ‘18 MSAUD is an architectural and urban designer as well as the founder of Territorial Empathy, a research laboratory that specializes in mitigating urban conflict through architectural interventions. Most recently, Zarith has focused on the D15 Diversity Plan, an unprecedented community engagement and research project that investigates racial segregation in New York City’s public schools.
Facilitated by Thiago Sang Hyun Lee '20 MSUP, '23 M.Arch.
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Thursday, August 13, 5:00 pm EDT
Virtual Event
Rachel Barnard ‘11 M.Arch is the Executive Director and Founder of Young New Yorkers, an arts diversion program for teens being prosecuted as adult in criminal courts. Rachel’s work has been supported by the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures and she was named the 2018 NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’ Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) as well as a Fellow for Socially-Engaged Art from A Blade of Grass.
Facilitated by Victoria Vuono '20 MSAUD.
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Tuesday, August 11
Time varies
Tuesday Talks connects the Class of 2020 to alumni professionals for informal 1:1 conversations. Registration will open at noon EDT on Monday, August 10.
Preview a list of alumni mentors for next week.
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Junior Planner/Urban Designer
Perkins + Will
The Toronto studio of Perkins and Will, is a multi-disciplinary firm specializing in the design of public spaces and buildings, including recreation centers, libraries, academic facilities, and transit stations. The studio is looking for a candidate will assist in developing planning and design solutions for projects of varying scales and complexities.
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Project Designer
Laguarda.Low Architects
Laguarda.Low Architects is seeking talented and creative intermediate designers with 3-5+ years experience to fulfill the role of Project Designers. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic, collaborative studio environment on a variety of international and domestic projects.
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Climate Resilience Organizer
Waterfront Alliance
The Waterfront Alliance is a civic organization that brings together a diverse coalition of more than 1,100 stakeholders with ties to the New York–New Jersey waterways. The Climate Resilience Organizer will support the Waterfront Alliance’s director of resilience and a developing coalition to build and execute a strategy for advancing the Rise to Resilience coalition.
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Internship
Urban Archive
Urban Archive interns are a part of the content curation team for the Urban Archive app. Interns will confer with content creators to cull, research, and input data based on the digital collections of New York City historical institutions such as New York Public Library, Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Historical Society, among others.
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ACD 43: RECENTER
Association for Community Design
Deadline: August 10
The Association for Community Design is seeking proposals for their annual conference. ACD 43: RECENTER is an opportunity to pause, focus on the intentions of those shaping the built environment, remind ourselves why we do this work, reconsider how we do this work to prioritize justice and equity, and create the change our communities deserve.
COVID-19 Grants
Center for History in the Public Interest
Deadline: August 15
The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University will fund up to 10 projects that creatively engage with the broad range of questions, concerns, policies and practices raised by past pandemics and how historical study can further public understanding of the current Covid-19 crisis.
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Seed Grant
Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
Deadline: August 15
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage Columbia University affiliated social and environmental ventures. Social or environmental ventures are defined as those working to solve a social or environmental problem.
Open Call
Downtown Brooklyn Public Art + Placemaking Fund
Deadline: August 17
The DUMBO Improvement District (DUMBO) and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) are seeking proposals for the Downtown Brooklyn Public Art + Placemaking Fund. The $600,000 fund will award grants of up to $50,000 for improvements to cultural spaces that serve to connect neighborhoods, revitalize public spaces, and increase access to cultural programming.
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Refining Your Personal Brand
Wednesday, August 12 at 10 a.m. EDT
Columbia alumni experts in marketing and branding help you define and present your personal brand. |
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AIA Day of Service
Saturday, August 15
9am to 5pm
Get ready to roll up your sleeves for a good cause! This year AIA New York is once again partnering with multiple local architecture firms to organize service projects to benefit non-profit organizations in the NYC area. They are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to take part in each of these events.
Team Leaders:
Dattner Architects, Ennead Architects, Forte Construction Corp., Richter+Ratner, TAP Electrical Contracting & Urbahn Architects
Register here.
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REIMAGINE, a new initiative of The Architectural League, is a series of weekly Zoom discussions in order to elaborate individual and collective ideas and propositions. Each session will have a specific focus, but also allow for more open-ended development.
Interested recent graduates can fill out the registration form at this link. Submissions to participate are due August 24 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. There is no fee to participate.
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Submitting Class Notes
Share news and updates to be included in an upcoming newsletter. You may choose to announce new projects, professional roles, completed competition proposals, and more by sending a brief blurb and link or image to careers@arch.columbia.edu. |
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