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PLANT Architect is seeking a landscape architect to join its team in Toronto, Canada.

We are looking for a landscape architect with a minimum of four years’ postgraduate professional experience. We require a creative, inquisitive, and motivated individual with a dedication to idea-driven work and to working in a studio atmosphere.

You must possess strong conceptual and detailed design skills including construction drawings and contract administration. We like to work with well-read, articulate, engaged individuals who have the ability to organize their thoughts and work, and the ability to speak and write clearly in English.

You would work closely with both the architecture and landscape architecture teams and would be responsible for managing projects, design, research, preparation of technical drawings, budget and schedule management, client presentations and meetings. Projects will include public landscapes, public realm and urban infrastructure, research and experimentation, exhibition work, and custom private commissions.

You must also be a resident of Canada or have the ability to obtain a work permit for a period of more than one year.

Please visit branchplant.com to ensure your design capabilities are compatible with our firm, before you apply. Applicants should submit samples of their work along with resume and cover letter.

Skills required:

• demonstrated excellence in design. Ability to communicate design ideas and direction quickly
• enthusiastic about landscape architecture, architecture, and design
• strong project management and organizational skills. Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects in various stages of development
• excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a studio environment
• four plus years’ of postgraduate professional office experience including coordinating and working on the design of large and medium-scale projects such as urban squares and parks, public realm projects, and conservation area projects
• familiarity with urban landscape projects
• knowledge of local arboriculture and horticulture
• demonstrated technical skills in preparing technical working drawings for both hardscape and soft-scape elements (grading and layout plans, material plans, planting plans, construction details)
• high level of graphic communication skills
• high level of freehand and rendering skills, and be capable of using 2D/3D software, including AutoCAD, Sketch up, PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator, and PowerPoint
• knowledge of VECTORWORKS would be ideal

Education Requirements:

• MLA or foreign equivalent
• ability and interest to become an OALA full member

www.branchplant.com

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