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Easy to say from a distance, but the internship culture in architecture is relatively recent and completely awful. 15 years ago (my arbitrary benchmark) it barely existed - I recall us joking about Renzo Piano when we found out it didn't pay. These days it seems any old practice think they can get cheap labour, without even giving you a decent name for your CV. It should be resisted/challenged. Why should any graduate work for free or extremely low pay? At the same time there is always so much talk about 'widening access' to the profession. Such bullshit.
Anyway, apart from the rant. There is no 'reasonable salary' for an intern - the whole point is it's not a proper, livable wage. So if you have the means and you really want the 'job' it could be nothing at all. If you cannot afford that then cost up what you need to survive and have this figure in your head. Otherwise it does not seem to be sustainable. But why should she not ask for a real wage? Especially since she already has work experience (ie. the Berlin internship should be worth something).
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to the ones in this thread who are architects in london; what would be a reasonable salary for a graduated intern? my gf (swiss, studied at epfl, done one year of internship in berlin) has an interview on weds and possibly theyll offer her an internship bar a job.
at the riba guidelines are given for "real positions", not internships. hence me asking here