Careers
Inspired by design that promotes the common good, we prepare you for a career as an architect, designer, city planner, and more. Launch your career right out of the program, or pursue graduate studies at the nation’s top universities.
Concesse Nyirazikunze ’23
I got my construction internship through my professor. He knew the owner of the company and emailed our class saying the company was looking for summer interns."
Concesse Nyirazikunze ’23
Student Internships
A semester-long internship experience is a graduation requirement for the Architecture program. Students have had placements at well over 100 firms, nonprofits, and municipalities throughout the SanFrancisco Bay Area. These internships range from architecture offices, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Planning, Construction Management, Contracting, Engineering, Low-income housing nonprofits, municipal offices for Planning, Building, Parks and Recreation, Public Works, and more.
Example internship locations:
- SFO International Airport
- Arkin-Tilt Architects
- Larson-Shores Architects
- April Powers Interiors
- Andrews Chang
- Opticos
- Design Draw Build
- Guzman Construction
- Herrero Construction
- Robert Glass Landscape Architecture
- UC San Francisco
- Tiny Village Spirit
- and many others
Pablo Vilas '23
Assistant Project Manager at Plant Construction
Internship Secured in Class, Job Today
With the professional practice class, I got my internship which became my job today. In the class, we are asked to reach out to companies and send over our portfolios, establishing a relationship with the employer."
Pablo Vilas '23
Assistant Project Manager at Plant Construction
Employers
Our graduates are employed in architecture and related fields all over the Bay Area, the U.S. and the world. The required internships often become job offers or students get positions at other firms to try something new as they develop their areas of interest in the field.
Example employers include:
- Gensler
- Pyatok Architecture and Urban Design
- Baran Associates
- MH Architects
- Dorman Associates
- San Francisco Public Works
- Orinda Planning Department
- Plant Construction
- Guerrero Construction
- Youth Spirit Artworks
- Skillful Means
- and many others
Job Titles
Here are just some of the titles that our graduates hold:
- Construction Manager
- Interior Designer
- Architect
- Designer
- Landscape Architect
- Landscape Designer
Miles Fredrick '23
Paved the Way for Grad School
My professional practice course and first internship provided hands-on experience and networking opportunities that paved the way for my application and acceptance into grad school."
Miles Fredrick '23
Graduate Schools
Graduates are regularly accepted to premiere Master of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Construction Management, and other programs with portfolios that distinguish them from other applicants due to the range of studio output and real world project examples.
A few examples where our graduates have been accepted:
- Harvard
- Columbia
- UC Berkeley
- UCLA
- University of Washington
- Penn
- USC
- University of South Florida
- SCI Arc
- Tulane
- Pratt
- Cornell
- Parsons
- Savannah
- AA London
- and many others