Weitzman externships in retrospect: Harisa Martinos
The master of landscape architecture candidate spent her externship at a New York City firm, absorbing its culture and learning its design process.
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The Weitzman School of Designexternship program offers students in architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and landscape architecture the opportunity to take their learnings outside of the classroom and gain firsthand knowledge of practice. Externships typically last from one to two weeks and run during winter and spring breaks. “What surprised me was how natural the transition from school to practice felt. It made me realize how prepared I am,” says Harisa Martinos about her externship.
“What surprised me was how natural the transition from school to practice felt,” says Weitzman MLA candidate Harisa Martinos.
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Martinos is a master of landscape architecture student who expects to graduate in May; her externship was with SCAPE Studio in New York.
“I really enjoyed sitting in on both client and consultant meetings for a project connected to my design studio site, as well as having the opportunity to collaborate on the conceptual design process for a project throughout the week with several team members. By the end of the experience, I was able to draw connections across different meetings and gained valuable insight into how to present to clients, along with a better understanding of how to bring ecological systems thinking into my own work,” Martinos says.
“Being in New York City, I had the opportunity to visit projects that I had studied in school. Being able to see how projects are used, and how they are performing, in the course of a week was also valuable.”
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