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Y S D M


Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY

@ysdm.studio
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✷ Seeking Summer Intern 2024 ✷






Y S D M


Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
info@ysdm.studio / @ysdm.studio


SUMMER INTERNSHIP
2024

Y S D M studio is currently looking for a summer intern for the renovation of our historic house into a residence, workshop, & studio.

We are seeking a design-minded individual with (wood/metal/model) shop experience to work alongside us through various projects such as natural plaster repair & installation, research & application of natural finishes (ie. limewash, tadelakt), rough carpentry, historic restoration of windows & doors, and fine woodworking (cabinetry & built-ins). We live in a community with talented crafts people, fabrication shops, and resources for historic work that we draw upon and collaborate with. We strongly believe in learning through experience and are open to guide and mentor the individual through each project.

The internship will be held within the work site. Access will be given to our shop and all of the necessary tools provided for each project, including safety glasses, work gloves, and other protective gear as necessary. The position requires being active for several hours at a time. The ideal individual would be energetic, in good health and physically capable of standing, bending, lifting, and carrying using a full range of motion to accomplish the tasks required. They would be comfortable getting dirty and open to engaging in repetitive, detail-oriented projects.

Most importantly, we seek someone who can contribute to a positive work environment, who maintains professionalism and patience in high-level work. The right candidate is willing to work as a team, follow instruction carefully and attentively, and be a good collaborator. While the focus of internship will be hands-on and building intensive, research and design are integral to our process—we devote time for R&D, reflection, and celebration of the work in progress.

Application Period: Open until filled
Internship dates: June 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024
Hours per Week: 20-25
Hourly Rate: $23/hr
Apply: See Below


Candidate must:

• Have at least 1 year working experience in a design office
• Have experience making/reading architectural plans, drawings, models
• Possess strong design intuition
• Have an energetic and attentive attitude
• Be a good critical thinker and problem solver
• Be professional and patient, contribute to a positive work environment
• Be a good collaborator; be able to follow instruction and work as a team
• Enjoy working with their hands and being active (on their feet) for several hours a day

Requirements:
• knowledge and experience making things by hand
• knowledge and experience with shop tools—ie table/band saw, drill press, planers, grinder etc.
• willingness to learn restoration craft—such as plastering, lime-wash, sanding/staining, window glazing.
• ability to lift 30lbs
• transportation to get to/and from work site

To Apply:
Please email a single PDF to info@ysdm.studio containing both your CV and Portfolio.

Please label the PDF as follows:

SummerInternship_FirstLast_YYYY-MM-DD.pdf

Subject line of email:

Summer Internship - First Last

Thank you!

ABOUT

Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.

Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.

By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as principles from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.  

As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.


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Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.

Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.

Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.

By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.  

As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be. 
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Y S D M
 info@ysdm.studio 
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