Wildgrain Bakehouse: Cafe and Test Kitchen is under construction!

We’re excited to help Wildgrain develop their first IRL experience in Somerville, just a stone’s throw from Cambridge’s Inman and Harvard Squares. Read more over at Boston Magazine.

Follow @wildgrainbox + @wildgrain.bakehouse and try their goods in your own home kitchen. We keep our own freezers loaded with their sourdough and croissants for last minute, high quality baked goods for occasions and weeknight meals.

Palm Springs Recognized at IIDA Design Excellence Awards

Our Palm Springs project took home and honorable mention award at the 2025 IIDA OR Design Excellence Awards, juried by Claudia Lofton, IIDA, RID, LEED Green Associate — Senior Associate & Director of Interior Design, HASTINGS Architecture (Nashville, TN), Derek Chen, CID, Assoc. IIDA, Fitwel Amb, LSSYB — Project Manager, LPA (Irvine, CA), Stacey Crumbaker, IIDA, Assoc. AIA, ALEP — Associate Principal, Mahlum Architects (Seattle, WA). Thank you for recognizing this special project!

Guggenheim takes home three IIDA Design Excellence Awards

We are thrilled to share that our studio was awarded 3 (!) 2019 IIDA Oregon Design Excellence Awards. The esteemed jury included Grace Eun @cwarchitects Michael Hsu @hsuoffice Thom Forsyth @rockwellgroup Thank you for your considered review of our small studio's work.

IIDA Oregon Design Excellence Awards

IIDA Oregon Design Excellence Awards

Best Of Residential Category // Wriff Residence

Best Of Residential Category // Wriff Residence

Best of Restaurant Category // Avid Cider, Pearl District

Best of Restaurant Category // Avid Cider, Pearl District

Honorable Mention Restaurant Category // Sisters Coffee, Pearl District

Honorable Mention Restaurant Category // Sisters Coffee, Pearl District

Call for Candidates

Intermediate Designer/Architect

Guggenheim Architecture + Design Studio is a multidisciplinary creative atelier that integrates architecture, interior environments and brand direction. We've worked with a variety of local, national, and international clients in the areas of retail, hospitality, residential, medical and exhibition design.   

We are hardworking, fast-paced but laid-back.  We wear many hats and are prepared to visit job sites, showrooms, and boardrooms in the same day.  We work in an open studio, in comfortable but close quarters in NW Portland’s alphabet district.

Our ideal candidate is thoughtful, detail-oriented, collaborative, and eager.  All applicants should expect to work hard.   Candidates should have a degree in architecture or interior design from an accredited college and 3+ years relevant work experience in a design-focused office.     

The ideal candidates will posses the following qualities

  • Discerning design sense with strong graphic and technical skills

  • Friendly demeanor with exceptional communication and social skills

  • Ability to effectively and professionally communicate directly with clients

  • Motivated, collaborative and creative problem solver with a strong work ethic

  • Willing to both receive and give constructive and critical feedback

  • Ability to attend industry and community events as a representative of Guggenheim Architecture

Job duties will include

  • Develop and modify design concepts, production drawings and construction documents according to established standards both collaboratively and independently

  • Assist in design, building & systems programming, site and building analysis

  • Specify building materials, both exterior and interior

  • Render perspective drawings

  • Develop design presentations

  • Assist in basic organizational tasks and administrative duties as needed

Required Technical Proficiencies

  • Archicad

  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

  • Sketchup

  • MAC OS platform

Compensation will be based on experience and abilities. All full-time employees receive matched Simple IRA contributions, healthcare plan, paid holidays, PTO, and part of a local farm-share CSA.

 To apply, please email your cover letter, resume and work samples – both academic and professional – to hello@guggenheimstudio.com.  Information must be bundled into one file.  If you have relevant, design-driven Instagram, Pinterest, or Tumbler accounts, please include urls in your resume.  No telephone calls or personal visits, please. Due to the large volume of resumes received, we are unable to respond to each e-mail personally. Thank you for understanding.