Architectural Intern

Every architecture student carries the same quiet ambition: to work in their own name.

Some start a practice immediately. Most spend years learning first. The path varies. The ambition rarely does.

Design Start-Up is named for it.

A 3 or 6-month in-office internship at Studio Athenos, Jaipur. Architecture and interior design students work on live hospital, residential and institutional projects — not as observers, as contributors.

Six modules, because this is what practice actually runs on:

01 — Technical Drawing & Site Understanding. AutoCAD, working drawings, construction documentation on live hospital projects. A drawing is a commitment: to a dimension, a material, a sequence of construction.

02 — Materials, Vendors & Execution. BOQ formulation, specifications, site coordination. Material knowledge lives in the market, not the catalogue.

03 — Presentation, Communication & Publishing. SketchUp, Revit, AI-assisted rendering. A design that cannot be communicated cannot be built.

04 — Client Communication & Professional Behaviour. The person writing the cheque sees the building differently than you do.

05 — Project Planning & Workflow. Milestone planning and documentation systems used in NABH-compliant hospital design. A concept is not a project. The difference is sequence.

06 — Budgeting & BOQ Fundamentals. Every line you draw costs something.

Five days a week in the office. The sixth is an observation day.

You choose where to go — the walled city, Jawahar Kala Kendra, the stepwells at Abhaneri, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer. The only rule is a short report with photographs before the next working day. Not tourism. Architectural observation with accountability.

Jaipur was planned in 1727 by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya on a nine-sector grid oriented to climate and cardinal direction at once. Hawa Mahal's 953 windows are a climate device, not a facade. The bazaar streets of Johari and Tripolia were sized to control light and airflow. None of it is in a textbook. All of it is within walking distance.

And before you leave, you publish.

An essay, a site observation, annotated drawings, a photographic series — whatever form captures what you actually understood. Published under your name, with a view counter. If a drawing you contributed to gets built after you leave, we send you the photographs.

Applications open quarterly. Open to students from any country — the programme runs in English.

Jaipur, Rajasthan

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