Taylor & Burns Architects is an award-winning architecture firm designing diverse project types from new construction to adaptive reuse, for institutional, cultural, transportation, and education clients.
We embrace innovation and new design technology, engage communities in the design process, and respect urban and historic context.
We provide comprehensive services from feasibility and permitting through construction administration for public, private, and not-for-profit clients.
Project Architect / Senior Designer - About This Position
Taylor & Burns Architects is seeking a seasoned Project Architect / Senior Designer with 8–12 years of experience to lead complex design?forward projects across educational, civic, and institutional sectors.
What You’ll Do
Lead across all phases: concept, schematic, DD, CD, bidding, and CA
Collaborate and steer projects from concept through construction, mentor emerging staff, coordinate consultants, and maintain design excellence while meeting schedule and budget.
Serve as day?to?day contact; coordinate meetings, present design options, manage expectations, and build strong relationships
Direct multi?disciplinary teams; coordinate with consultants, guide detailing, oversee QA/QC, and resolve technical issues.
Navigate zoning, permitting, and building codes
Develop full project deliverables from feasibility study through CD’s and CA
Support business development proposals to public agencies
Contribute to general practice operations
What You Bring
Licensure and professional degree in architecture
Professional practice totaling 8–12 years with a record of being a part of a team from concept through CDs and CA. Team leadership experience is preferred but not required
Proficiency in Revit and strong 3D/visualization skills; experience with Rhino/Grasshopper is preferred (but not essential)
Demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule, and fees while maintaining design intent
Clear communicator, collaborator, and mentor who elevates team performance and studio culture
Taylor & Burns Architects is a full-service architecture design firm based in Boston, founded in 1993 to improve the built environment. The firm’s expertise is the design of practical beautiful buildings and spaces specific to their place and precisely fit to project requirements. Inserting new work into established settings is a core competency. Creative, agile and responsive, Taylor & Burns sees design as material and spatial problem-solving. Viewing architecture as the visual, technical, and practical art of construction, Taylor & Burns expresses ideas in those terms. With this approach, all involved can see issues clearly and share a common understanding and appreciation of project goals, design direction and development, and final built results.
The Taylor & Burns toolbox provides a full array of services:
•Building design for new construction, addition, renovation, rehabilitation & restoration
•Three-dimensional architectural Illustration in digital media, physical models, and pencil sketches
•Computer-aided design and rendering with Revit and BIM, CAD, Enscape, Energy Modeling, and Adobe Creative Suite
•Site evaluation and facility master planning
•Construction docu...ments Including coordinated drawings and specifications for public works
•Construction phase services
•Strategic pre-design and feasibility studies
•Analysis and code-compliance (Including accessibility) evaluation of existing facilities
•Space planning and programming
•Interior design including lighting and furnishing
•Wayfinding
•Value engineering and constructability review
•Community engagement
•Applied materials research
Certification and Registration:
•Certified in Massachusetts as a WBE firm and a DBE firm
•Architects registered in multiple states including Massachusetts; we have NCARB certification
•LEED accredited and Passive House certified professionals
•MCPPO certification
