von Staden Architects

05/04/2026

We’re hiring!

Are you both technically-oriented and creative? Do you love to ask questions and find joy in drawing?

von Staden Architects is a boutique architecture and design firm with a collaborative studio located in Royal Oak, MI. and a fabrication shop in Detroit, MI. Our practice focuses on creating environments that spark change, re-invention, and diversity within our community. Our work is diverse and responsive to each context. We discover through conversations and explore through story telling. Our work inspires making, building, creating, honing, restoring and thinking. It is informed by respect for making.

As Architectural Job Captain, you will be a part of the design, documentation, and organization of a wide range of projects from small to large. Our work ranges from urban multi-family to high end residential to hospitality and corporate office. This position requires at least 5 years of full-time experience overseeing the development of project documentation from concept to construction. Qualified candidates should have a strong work ethic, an intrinsic curiosity about materials, wonder about how things are made and love the art of documentation. And have a sense of humor.

Responsibilities:
Site analysis, as-built documentation, drawing and document set-up
Design documentation: sketching and modelling (both digital and physical)
Construction documentation, drawing and detailing.
Project communication including consultants, clients, and contractors
Qualifications:
Bachelors of Architecture, minimum
Minimum 5 years experience in architecture or design firm
Strong proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, Adobe Suite
Strong graphic presentation skills and a love for visual communication
Technical detailing experience and understanding
A quick mind and a sense of humor, and the ability to tell a good story
Permanent work privileges in the US

For more information, please send your resume and link to online portfolio to [email protected]
Qualified applicants will be contacted via email. No phone calls, please.

05/21/2024

we are so proud to have been a part of the journey to bring this vision to reality. It takes brave and skilled leaders to see a new way of doing things. Bravo Fourth Tri Sanctuary !!

06/07/2022

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/awards/gail-von-staden-notable-women-construction-architecture-and-design

Gail von Staden joined her husband’s practice in 2009 after working as a senior associate at Gensler. Since then, von Staden Architects has quadrupled in staff, workload and revenue. Last year, they managed $60 million in construction value.

11/23/2021

von Staden Architects is seeking a creatively inclined, technically oriented architectural designer/story teller to join our family-firm. You will assist in the design, documentation, and organization of a wide range of projects from small to large. Our work ranges from urban multi-family to high-end residential to hospitality and corporate. This position requires at least 5 years of full-time experience in an architecture or design firm. Qualified candidates should have a strong work ethic, an intrinsic curiosity about materials and making things as well as a sense of humor.
Responsibilities:
• Site analysis, as-built documentation, conceptual design, including rendering and visualization
• Design phase – project feasibility and concept design
• Construction documentation, drawing and detailing.
• Project communication including consultants, clients, and contractors
Qualifications:
• Bachelors of Architecture, minimum
• 5 years experience in architecture or design firm
• Strong proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, Adobe Suite, Rhino
• Strong graphic presentation skills and a love for visual communication
• Technical detailing experience and understanding
• A quick mind and a sense of humor, and the ability to tell a good story
• Permanent work privileges in the US

08/13/2021

So honored to be a part of this amazing project!!

Comfort food, stellar views of Comerica Park are on the menu

08/06/2021

Worth the wait!

Union Joints plans to open Union Assembly in September along Woodward Ave. in the Little Caesars World Headquarters building in Detroit.

07/15/2021

02/26/2021

Wow! A year goes by fast!

10/19/2020

motivation and movement!

A little Monday Motivation…💪

10/06/2020

Trusses!