Architect / Designer

At Zaha Hadid Architects, we are seeking to hire Architects / Designers on a fixed-term contract to join our growing team in London. In this role, you will be closely working with the Lead Architect/Designer to create excellent-quality design in line with the ethos and integrity of the ZHA brand. You will be able to run part of a project through most work stages, under the expert guidance of senior colleagues.

Main responsibilities

• Take a brief in-house and respond effectively, using your own initiative to analyse options and prioritise alternatives, while referring as required, to ensure work remains on track.
• Work with the senior team to create competition entries that respond successfully to the brief and reflect the design ethos of ZHA.
• Create plausible concept or detailed solutions that are delightful and deliverable, reflecting the design ethos of ZHA while responding to the constraints of site, programme, budget, and brief.
• Apply legislation that affects a project, under supervision: H&S, Building Regulations, professional Code of Conduct, etc.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the suitability and performance of materials and components, in the context of real-life projects.
• Maintain and protect the integrity of a design concept as a project develops.
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of each member of the design team and work as an effective member of a project team, both in-house and with external consultants and suppliers.
• Act as the lead on given elements of a project, managing simple teams in-house and coordinating external teams to meet the requirements of a particular work stage.
• Create construction information under supervision, such that a building can be costed and built.
• Demonstrate an understanding of construction processes and logistics.
• Attend all project meetings as requested.
• Be aware of budget constraints on individual projects and understand the broad parameters of ZHA's responsibilities in this area.
• Be aware of time constraints on individual projects and understand the broad parameters of ZHA's responsibilities in this area.
• Anticipate and deal appropriately with changing circumstances.
• Be aware that changes to the brief, budgets, or programmes may have contractual implications and keep your seniors informed accordingly.
• Apply a working knowledge of contract issues and legal implications, recognising that different procurement routes and different countries have different legal and risk implications.
• Make simple but effective presentations at a project level, understanding the importance in clarity of technical information.

Your profile

• Construct arguments and effectively communicate complex ideas for drawings or models and find suitable solutions.
• Demonstrate accuracy, clarity and confidence in their work and their dealings with people.
• Self-motivated and self-critical.
• Inquisitive, reliable and adaptable.
• Always act professionally and respectfully.
• Willing to develop, learn and go the extra mile.
• Collaborative and diligent team player.
• Highly organised, responding fully and in a timely fashion.

Desired skills and qualifications

• Qualified Part 3 Architect (or equivalent international qualification) with relevant experience.
• Confident in software skills such as 3D, 2D, CAD, Word processing, Revit.

How to apply

Along with your CV and Portfolio, please also include detailed examples of projects using Revit in your application.

About us

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Creating buildings uniquely tailored to the communities they serve, ZHA has been awarded the highest honours from professional and academic institutions worldwide. Founded by Zaha Hadid in 1979, ZHA is one of the world's most consistently inventive architectural studios—and has been for four decades. These decades of pioneering research are inscribed within our architecture to become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced, and more environmentally considerate with every new design. Combining innovative architectural solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices, we do not look at the disparate parts, but work to understand them as a whole to meet the aspirations of each new generation. As an employee-owned business, we reinvest all profits back into our people and our company; continually enhancing our multidisciplinary research to address the challenges impacting communities around the world.