Summer Design Intern

Future Green Landscape Architecture DPC is seeking a Summer Design Intern for an 8-week position in New York. The intern, pursuing a degree in Landscape Architecture, will assist the design team with CAD/Rhino sketches, rendering graphics, managing databases, and producing construction documents. Required skills include proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and strong organizational abilities. The role focuses on urban ecology and sustainable design practices.
Dynamic landscape urbanism and urban ecology firm in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley with a diverse portfolio and a commitment to sustainable practices is seeking a summer intern (8-week duration) who is passionate, hard-working, and highly skilled. Must be pursuing degree in Landscape Architecture and be proficient in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite. Design-build experience is a plus.

The intern will be integrated with our design team and assist with on-going work, including:

· Implementing sketches into CAD / Rhino

· Rendering and layout presentation graphics

· Management of image + product databases

· Assisting in production of construction documents

Skills Required:

· Dependable, hard-working, passionate

· Strong organizational skills

· Ability to work with a team or independently

· Strong computer graphic presentation skills

· Proficient in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, + Rhino

At the forefront of a national design movement focusing on establishing place and identity through ecological design, Future Green Landscape Architecture’s work focuses on reclaiming post-industrial landscapes, on planning future visions for cities, and on greening New York City’s rooftops. We are a unique company, engaging in both speculative, urban, large scale conceptual landscape urbanism as well as small scale garden and art interventions.

Please send a cover letter, resume, and work samples to: info@futuregreenstudio.com. No calls please.

2025 SUMMER INTERNSHIP RESEARCH BRIEF

This year, interns will undertake research that focuses on the role of cities in regional biodiversity. The practice of rewilding – repairing landscapes, restoring natural processes, and reintroducing wildlife – has gained momentum in recent years. While the concept applies primarily to larger tracts of land in rural and suburban landscapes, what form could rewilding take in cities?

At Future Green’s recently completed project, St. John’s Terminal, the NYC Bird Alliance has observed over 40 bird species on the 2.5 acres of green roofs and open spaces. This raises questions of how landscape designs in cities, while small in their individual size, might contribute collectively to create a patchwork of habitats. Understanding how green roofs, gardens, and pocket parks might function within a patchwork must be grounded in science; how do patch size, surrounding land uses, and native plant selections impact the use of landscape designs as habitat?

This summer, in collaboration with Future Green designers, the intern will develop a literature review of publications relevant to these topics, writing short synopses of each and providing an overall synthesis. The goal will be to establish a robust research platform that will inform future project work and design explorations. In our projects, we have seen how post-occupancy observation and monitoring provides ‘proof of concept’ and reveals to us what did and did not work in our design, helping us to determine maintenance practices and design strategies for future projects. Creating this feedback loop between scientific research and design is an invaluable skill that we hope to impart through this internship project.

A portfolio and cover letter MUST be submitted in order to be considered. If you cannot attach to your application, please send via email to info@futuregreenstudio.com.

Job Type: Internship

Pay: $800.00 per week

Benefits:
• Relocation assistance

Schedule:
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brooklyn, NY 11231