Located in Portland, Oregon, Knot Studio is a team of Environmental Graphic Designers, Landscape Architects, and Landscape Ecologists seeking opportunities to promote social equity and environmental stewardship.
Come be part of our collaborative design team, working in a historic, light-filled office space in the Glass Lab in Portland’s Central Eastside District. Every member of Knot Studio’s growing staff is creative and passionate about working together to enhance the human experience of place while reinvigorating the natural systems that sustain us.
We work across disciplines and at multiple scales for clients throughout the US and around the world on a wide array of meaningful project types, including higher education, healthcare, government, parks and recreation, workplace, and civic/arts facilities.
Our location is easy to access by bike, on MAX light rail, or via a nice walk across one of Portland’s many bridges.
Landscape Architect
Portland, Oregon
Job Duties: Apply advanced and theoretical knowledge of landscape architecture to prepare design graphics, renderings, and technical drawings for the company’s landscape architecture, geospatial analysis, and environmental graphic design projects and proposals. While performing these duties, work under the direct supervision of a licensed Principal Landscape Architect. Under direct supervision, continue to assist with all stages of landscape architectural design development, including: participate in the public engagement activities, support design process and the development of site plans, support developing digital graphic design presentation materials such as rendered site plans, sections, perspectives and diagrams, support development of technical design documentation for construction packages in AutoCAD, and model design in 3d using Rhino and Lumion. Engage with Chinese community in connection with historical memorial landscape design and utilize Traditional Chinese characters as design elements for Chinese American landscape designs. With direction from the supervisor, assist with all stages of ecological analysis, including: participate in the development of conceptual analytical approaches, execute GIS analysis, support developing auxiliary analysis and decision-making tools, support writing analysis reports and develop summary materials, including maps and diagrams.
Requirements: Applicant must have a Master’s degree or foreign academic equivalent in Landscape Architecture, combined with experience in the following:
Portfolios must display a comprehensive collection of academic and/or work samples of professional work. Work Samples must be specific to the landscape architecture industry and may include a wide array of documents including reports, illustrative graphics, images, renderings, landscape design, artwork, and/or photos of projects. Exhibits provided should demonstrate a variety of project types, graphic compositions, technical layout skills, and use of the specific software programs of AutoCAD Civil 3D, Adobe Suite, model design in 3d using Rhino and Lumion, and ArcGIS for analytic and cartographic outputs.
All education, training and experience may be gained concurrently.
Applicants must be U.S. workers (includes U.S. citizens, permanent residents, foreign nationals granted temporary residence under one of the 1986 legalization programs, refugees, and asylees). Interested candidates should apply for the open position using the application form links on this page.
