STUDIO TRE

Studio Tre is a design practice working across architecture and interior design at every scale. Projects span the Americas and Europe, residential to commercial, built on the founders’ experience leading projects globally for discerning clients at past design studios.

SENIOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER

Studio Tre seeks a Senior Architectural Designer with a minimum of 8–10 years at an established architecture practice.

Reporting directly to the Partner, you’ll work across residential and commercial/hospitality projects to help realize Studio Tre’s design vision. You’ll move fluidly between design development, production, and coordinating with the teams that turn ideas into built work, managing multiple projects on different timelines without losing precision.

Our drawings are ultimately instruction manuals for builders. We need designers with real prowess in construction detailing, who understand how things are practically built and can translate that understanding into drawings a contractor can execute with confidence. We’re looking for someone diligent, highly organized, and detail-driven, who conducts themselves with utmost professionalism and holds both the creative ambition of a project and its practical realities, client needs, budget, timeline, and construction constraints, in view at once.

Studio Tre is a drawing-based practice. We value designers who use drawing to think through and resolve design problems, not just document them. Hands-on experience in other forms of craft, design, or art is a plus.

Location: Full-time, five days a week on-site at our studio on 20th Street, Flatiron, NYC.

We invest in our team’s professional and creative growth, and offer a comprehensive benefits package within a studio culture built on continual learning.

Requirements

B.Arch or M.Arch (professional degree)
8–10 years at an architecture practice or a design practice with an architecture department, with experience across all project phases, particularly Construction Documents and Construction Contract Administration
Strong construction detailing skills, with a working understanding of how buildings are actually assembled in the field
Proficiency in AutoCAD and the Autodesk suite, with strong technical construction drawing skills; 3D modeling/rendering is a plus
Strong graphic and verbal communication skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop and InDesign
Pluses

Training in or strong interest in traditional/classical architectural languages. We’re interested in how design history informs contemporary work, and welcome candidates sharing references that shape their own thinking
Experience with NYC DOB approvals and the permitting/entitlement process

Please submit a one-page CV and relevant work samples no larger than 10 MB, to careers@tre.studio, with the Job Title and your First and Last Name in the subject line. We look forward to hearing from you.

Studio Tre was founded in 2022 by Whitley Esteban and Ernesto Gloria. The studio embraces design vocabularies from the formal to the folk, from the canonical to the vernacular – and exists comfortably being both. The studio aims always for this third way.

Whitley Esteban leads architectural design direction across all projects. For eight years, Whitley worked as Managing Director and Architectural Design Director at Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors, with residential and commercial work spanning the globe for hospitality, entertainment, and cultural leaders, owners, and operators. Whitley began her career in New York at G. P. Schafer Architect, and is a trustee of the national Board of Directors of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.

Ernesto Gloria leads the interiors and decorative aspects of all projects within the studio. Working for Tom Scheerer, Inc. for eight years, Fairfax and Sammons in New York, and John Simpson Architects in London, Ernesto has designed premier residences and private members’ club projects across New York, Florida, Sweden, and Panama.

Both Whitley and Ernesto are alumni of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame.

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