Staff Fieldtrips

"cf+a Staff Field Trip to the Windy City", Summer 2005

"cf+a Staff Field Trip to Milwaukee", Milwaukee Art Museum
addition by Santiago Calatrava, Summer 2006

Visit the Milwaukee Art Museum at (Milwaukee Art Museum)

Employment Opportunities

We are always looking for talented, qualified staff.   Please email us for current openings.

We are also looking for a degreed intern to assist in all phases of the work; with a wide variety of experience available to boost your IDP and provide balance in your internship.   Proficiency in AutoCAD and Adobe software a must, MS Word and Excel a plus.

Feel free to email us a sample of your work, but please mail your resume with cover letter to:

Pat Leitzen Fye, Business/Marketing Manager
christopher fye + associates
105 W. Main St., Suite 100
Freeport, IL  61032
pat.leitzen-fye@fyearch.com

Interns

cf+a always welcomes great interns.  We understand the challenges architecture students face in designing and carrying out their internships and we value the energy, the knowledge and the enthusiasm interns bring to the work.  Full-time or part-time, still in college, or degreed, we have a place for you.  Join a firm that gives you the full scope of experience you'll need to further your architectural career. 

If you're interested in knowing more, please contact us!

Current Intern

Please see our Staff Profile pages for our current interns, Susan Brunson and Rose Berryhill.

Past Interns

Ana Levan recently left the firm to continue her Master of Architect studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.   Feel free to view her website at (analevan.googlepages.com/index.html)

Ashley Marsh recently finished her Master of Architecture at Washington University in Saint Louis, May 2007.   She also finished a semester studying in Buenos Aires after which she survived the Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu.  Feel free to view her website at (ashleymarsh.com/index.html)

Adam King has interned off and on at cf+a since 2003.   He currently attends UW Platteville as an Ornamental Horticulture major and is also considering landscape architecture.   He enjoys touring with his band, Last Place You Look.   He was a keystone member of the entire office and it will be a struggle to function without him. He will be deeply missed by all. (Insert smile.)

Job Shadows

The staff at cf+a fully supports and encourages students in their pursuit of architectural education.  We welcome high school seniors entertaining the idea of architecture as a profession through the job shadow program offered through Highland Community College’s Career Tec program (www.highland.edu) and through individual and group programming with the Freeport School District #145 (www.freeportschooldistrict.com).

We have hosted students from various local school districts in short-term job shadow visits, or longer-term studio experience.  Several of our students have returned year after year for summer work between academic years and during holiday breaks.

If you’re in high school or college and just beginning to think about architecture as a profession, we recommend you do your homework!  There are various websites to help you in searching out architecture degree programs throughout the country. Here are just a couple to get you started:

• www.naab.org (National Architectural Accrediting Board, Inc.)
• www.ncarb.org (all about licensing)

Also, check out various universities well-known for their architecture programs:

• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.uiuc.edu/)
• The University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.uic.edu/)
• The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (http://www.uwm.edu/)
• Ball State University in Muncie, IN (http://www.bsu.edu/)
• Washington University in St. Louis, MO (http://www.wustl.edu/)

We take great pride and pleasure in giving students the opportunity to learn and witness first hand the challenges and rewards of the architecture profession.