Next Step Connections internship program provides students and young professionals with guaranteed tailor-made architecture internships. Before you start the internship placement process, you must apply first and get accepted. During the placement process, you will be working with our program advisor who will organize interviews with our large network of architecture firms in Asia.
As employment of architects is projected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2018. Prospective architects may face competition for positions at prestigious firms. To increase your chances of getting an internship after graduation, you should gain career-related experience in an architectural firm while still in school. Those who know CAD technology will also have an advantage.
Participating in an architecture Internship typically involves working at architecture firms, construction, and planning companies. You might work as an assistant project manager and work alongside qualified professionals on urban, landscape, residential, or commercial projects. Architecture internships may comprise all design activity from the macro-level (urban design, landscape).
On a typical day you will:
As the world’s most exciting architectural playground, China continuously pushes architectural boundaries. The speed in which gleaming new buildings are being constructed may be mind–boggling to some, but for most, it is definitely an exhilarating process to be a part of. We have placed architecture students at companies such as Arquitectonica, GHP Architects, Abbarch, Tesco Construction
Recent internships placements include working for urban or landscape architecture firms. Challenging daily tasks involved designing zonal commercial façades, as well as working on regional architecture and planning projects. Companies include Arquitectonicta, Farell, Rudolph, Qube Architecture.
"The project I am working on was a large scale redevelopment of an old factory building involving office, exhibition, leisure, landscape and furniture design. I am heavily involved in all aspects of the design to date. The level of responsibility I have been given has surpassed my expectations. I hope to be able to see the project through to completion before the end of my internship My internship here has also heightened my ambition to work abroad after I graduate. Perhaps within Europe. Alternatively I am eager to work within another rapidly developing city. " Gina, United Kingdom, Architecture internship, January-July 2010
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