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# Design Architect

- **Company:** Coop Gruppe
- **Location:** Wien, Austria
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €43,974.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Adobe Creative Cloud, Software Applications, Rhino
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://coop-himmelblau.at/jobs/2024-09-11-design-architect/#apply

## About the Role

* Professional degree in architecture
 * Minimum of 3 - 5 years of professional experience, preferably in an international context
 * Experience in design & planning geometrically complex, large-scale projects
 * Work experience in all project phases is beneficial
 * Strong conceptual and design qualities, functional and technical understanding
 * Proficiency with analog and digital tools: Rhino, Grasshopper, Rhino Inside, CAD, Adobe Suite, ability to be open to further software applications
 * Proactive, flexible and open work attitude
 * Fluent in English and German (a plus) spoken and written, further languages advantageous

## Description

* Develop designs within the design team together with the Project Architect to support the Studio Lead
 * Perform work on all phases including concept design, design development and construction documents
 * Project research and studies, especially regarding technical implementation, local building codes and standards
 * Responsible for the design, functional and technical conception of the project
 * Engage and integrate the Coop Himmelb(l)au working methods of digital and analog procedures into the design process
 * On the basis of the working methods, prepare and develop drawings, specifications, graphics, working models, schemes and necessary documents related to the design
 * Coordinate and communicate all aspects of architectural design within multi-disciplinary teams


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