Still a BARCH student here. I'm less sure about now, but a few years ago I had a studio professor that had a BARCH + MFA. She was an awesome professor, but she was disappointed that they kept her as an adjunct... and filled full-time positions with other outside critics.

I also had a professor with a BARCH + MFA who was recently hired full-time, but she is also in the middle of completing her PHD. I think the universities are continually raising their hiring criteria. Personally I wish I had more professors that were practicing architects, but then that really strains their time and attention.

Good Luck.

I am just thinking it probably depends on the school & of course the quality of my experience & work.

Who knows. I still have to start my M.F.A. Thanks!

MFA is a terminal degree so you should be able to teach at most places.... i have a 5year b.a. arch and finishing up my MFA in design..... i plan on teaching hence the masters degree...

I think, like you said, it is highly dependent on where you go. I minored in Studio Arts from a Big Ten school that barely funded the program and had the whole department holed up in a decrepit old building which has since been demolished. Let me reemphasize Big Ten school. I can't imagine what it might be like at some lesser-funded schools. The University was literally shamed into building the department a new facility. This is a campus with development bursting at the seams, mind you, and they wouldn't take it upon themselves to toss a few pennies to the arts. Birds lived in the rafters above our heads. As far as I remember, none of the instructors I had were anything more than adjunct faculty and nearly all seemed to be the solo starving artist type, not particularly well off. The graphic design programs had certainly better facilities, but nothing special and most instructors there were practicioners too, I believe. Teaching art & design doesn't necessarily seem any more stable than a career in architecture, though undoubtedly less haughty & stuffy and probably more interesting. I might actually suggest teaching high school might be a more financially stable option. As far as teaching architectural design, I think you'll find it awfully hard to find a spot teaching studio without an M.Arch or practicing. Visualization courses might be a possibility, though. But I can't see getting tenured teaching just those.

Here's a brainstorm: Use your interest in ceramics and tie it back to architecture to create a company specializing in custom installations of mosaic designs.