As we start the new year, architecture schools still look for experienced professors, coordinators, fabrication managers, and other design faculty. For our latest curated jobs highlight, we feature seven architecture schools that have recently posted job opportunities on the Archinect Job Board.
Be sure to check out our November 2022 academic job round-up, where we feature architecture schools with 20+ opportunities not already mentioned below.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) is hiring an...
Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Interior Design - "Candidate responsibilities for a successful academic path will include teaching, research, and service. The candidate will provide comprehensive instruction, coordination, and academic collaboration throughout all Interior Design programs, with a strong integrated approach to architectural design, professional practice, history-theory, and technology sequences. Contribution to the School includes participation and leadership in curriculum development, in CIDA accreditation activities, student mentoring and advising, retention and recruitment initiatives, and service activities to the community, the School, and the Institution." Read more here.
Fabrication Lab Supervisor - "The successful candidate will be responsible for the supervision of the operations of an integrated analog and digital fabrication lab in Old Westbury, Long Island. A degree in architecture or a related field and at least 1-3 years of fabrication experience in academic and/or professional settings are required. The Supervisor will report to the Director of Digital Technologies and Fabrication, collaborate with NYIT faculty and administrators, and assist in installing, maintaining, and continually improving equipment for a newly renovated state-of-the-art robotics and digital fabrication lab." Read more here.
Robotics Fabrication Lab Manager - Responsibilities include but not limited to "Reporting to the Director of Digital Technologies and Fabrication this position will be responsible for daily operations of an integrated analog and digital fabrication shop in Long Island. Be the primary technician for the Robotics Lab & advanced 3D printing lab. Collaborate with NYIT faculty and administrators and assist in, installing, maintaining, and continually improving equipment for a state-of-the-art wood shop and digital fabrication lab." Read more here.
Morgan State University is hiring an...
Assistant Professor, Architecture - "The School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) at Morgan State University invites applications for a Tenure Track Faculty position to serve its Graduate Program in Architecture in the areas of Architectural Design and one of the following: Digital Design, Environmental Design, and Climate Change, and/or Building Technology and Structures. The appointment (9.5 months) will be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Qualified candidates will have an interest in integrating teaching and research; we are looking for a visionary colleague to expand the curriculum in her or his respective areas. All candidates should have a record of professional or academic achievement and be prepared for the responsibilities of a faculty member in a Carnegie-designated research (R2) institution. Applicants currently working in professional or academic contexts are encouraged to apply." Read more here.
The Ohio State University is hiring an...
Architectural Services Coordinator - "The Architectural Services Coordinator serves as a primary Revit resource for OSU. They are responsible for maintaining and updating OSU drawings and models across all campuses by incorporating construction drawings from AutoCAD, Revit, and field verifications into a Revit format for inclusion into the Space Information and Management System (SIMS). Field verifications regularly include traveling to and navigating buildings around any of the OSU campuses and occasionally may require accessing mechanical and rooftop areas via stairs or ladders. The Architectural Services Coordinator assists in converting existing AutoCAD-based floor plans to Revit-based building models, and they develop and maintain in-house Revit families. They are responsible for reviewing and assigning room numbers for new construction or renovation projects." Read more here.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is hiring an...
Architectural Geometry and Digital Design Faculty Position - " We seek a professor with a recognized intellectual footprint in architectural geometry and digital design. The appointee will expand existing practices of design and construction towards new methodologies and construction logistics that integrate manual craft, computational or AI-driven design, advanced geometric manipulation, and building information models (BIM), often in hybrid relationships, with a view to address the ecological urgency in the built environments. Aesthetic and morphological innovation should be paralleled by scholarship that theorizes and contextualizes transcalar digital approaches to design and production, and critically examines their value and impact in the architectural context, in the city, the profession and society at large. The candidate is expected to have a strong commitment to excellence in education and teach architectural geometry and digital design at the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD level, and engage an encompassing view of geometry’s role in architecture and its evolution over time." Read more here.
Carnegie Mellon University is hiring...
2023 Ann Kalla Visiting Professorship in Architecture - "Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) School of Architecture invites applications for the 2023-25 Ann Kalla Visiting Professorship in Architecture. This two-year professorship supports emerging and early career practitioners, scholars, and educators interested in pursuing research and/or artistic activity combined with architectural design teaching. We also welcome applications from historically underrepresented communities [...] The Visiting Professorship comes with a teaching load of two design studios and a seminar each year. In addition, support will be provided for your research/creative activity through student research assistants and/or discretionary funds." Read more here.
South Dakota State University is hiring an...
Instructor of Architecture - "The South Dakota State University School of Design invites applications for an Instructor of Architecture to begin no later than August 2023. This is a full-time, nine-month, benefit-eligible appointment, and the position reports to the Director of the School of Design. South Dakota State University promotes access to and opportunities for all to receive the benefit of and participate in education, research, and service and is especially interested in candidates that can contribute to this land-grant mission of access." Read more here.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is hiring a...
*Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Architecture - "The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design invites applications for one or more full-time, tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in Architecture. Our department is searching for highly motivated candidates demonstrating mastery in architectural design and a strong, ongoing contribution to the field, including a commitment to academic scholarship in the context of the #1 ranked public university in the United States. The potential candidate is expected to teach studio and seminar courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Anticipated start date is July 1, 2023. A Master of Architecture degree or higher is required." Read more here. *Note: "Final application date is Sunday, Jan 15, 2023 at 11:59pm PST. Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled."
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If you're tired of architectural practice why would you want to teach architecture?
Acidemia is not and should not be removed from the real world practice of architecture. Your job would be to prepare new people to work in change the same architectural practice that you're so tired of.
i think there's value in having some full-time faculty members; we do need people running the programs, after all. i also had many great professors who had practiced for a long time and went on to teach full-time, but incorporated their practice-based knowledge well.
what is the worst of both worlds to me is the full-time faculty who also practice- it makes for teachers and practitioners who are too stretched thin. if you practice, you should teach one course a semester at most.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are faculty who can't run a business to save their lives and whose whole raison-d-etre for even starting a studio is to continue living their student fantasies. When these people turn to teaching to earn some money, get heathcare coverage, and induct free labor ... oh boy.
Chad is totally right, in most of the hi-fi coastal schools - "Those who cant, teach..." Essentially feed kids to the system the faculty escaped from in the first place.
I think that architects with a good amount of experience should be professors. The thing is you need to want to teach and not be 'sick' of working in a firm. These teachers will be shaping the new talent and need to be excited and invested in the improvement of our profession.
The idea that an average practicing architecture firm employee could transition into a full-time teaching position in the US is ludicrous. Very few people in firms have the advanced degrees, teaching experience, and body of academic research/publications that schools are insisting on nowadays. The number of people who do tick these boxes already exceeds the number of available positions, making the competition for faculty jobs pretty tough.
The best you could do would be a low-paying adjunct gig teaching a single course in something the regular faculty doesn't want to because they consider it beneath them.
I'd agree. Then again all of my good professors where architects with 20-30 years experience working in firms. Only one didn't have real world experience and they didn't last long at our college.
My grad and undergrad schools forced out all of the professors who had substantial practices or work experience back in the 1990's. The replacement people have tiny firms, if they practice at all. There was (and maybe still is) a real push to discredit teaching practical skills and realistic building methods as being "vocational training" and most practicing architects as un-artistic sellouts.
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