With the Fall term slowly approaching, new fellowship opportunities are available! For many years, Archinect's editorial coverage has highlighted fellowship programs from architecture schools across the nation. As pedagogy continues to expand and include important topics like socio-political issues relating to architecture, below is a list of featured fellowship opportunities posted on our Archinect Job Board. 

Fellowship opportunities are more than "prestigious academic positions." These opportunities also offer a blend of practice, research, and pedagogical cross-pollination. To accompany this week's featured fellowships, we've also included a selection of exclusive interviews with former architecture fellows from Archinect's Fellow Fellows series.

*Is your school offering fellowship opportunities but don't see them listed below? Reach out to us at connect@archinect.com or post a job on Archinect's Job board to have your fellowship featured! 

FEATURED FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Fellowships focusing on Racial and Spatial Justice
School: University of Michigan

"The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning seeks applications for two fellowships focusing on racial and spatial justice - one in architecture and urban design focusing on the built environment and one in urban planning and/or architecture with a designated role as a co-investigator on our Egalitarian Metropolis research project. Both are two-year fellowships."

Design Education Fellow
Organization: NuVu Studio

"The NuVuX Design Education Fellow will be an instructor based at Andover Public Schools in Andover, Massachusetts, who will lead the design and implementation of high school studios with the support and mentorship of the NuVu Team in Cambridge. The Fellow will join a unique, highly skilled cohort of fellows who lead programs at NuVu’s growing network of partner schools around the world."

Emerald Necklace Natural Infrastructure Landscape Design & Project Management Summer 2021 Fellowship
Organization: Amigos de los Ríos

"The Natural Infrastructure Landscape Design & Project Management Fellow will use their Design Skills to conduct precise site measurements to create existing condition-based drawings, conduct, and track design development, including review of CAD topo surveys, creating concept plans, and using existing tools of photography, hand-sketched drawings, reviewing site aerials, and using Adobe Creative Suite and CAD Drawing Skills to support multi-benefit project development/CD Set Creation. Design work includes site planning analysis, schematic & design development leading to Construction Drawings as required for stakeholder consensus, permitting, and jurisdiction approvals." 

INTERVIEWS WITH FELLOWS

Below is a selection of past interviews with former fellows. Together we discuss their fellowship research, how the experience has influenced their professional careers, and criticisms connected to fellowships and institutions.

Michael Jefferson Talks the Future of Fellowships and the Biases of AI Application in Architecture (read interview here)

The 2019-2020 fellows (across the US) may end up as a sort of index of how things once were," he states. "I imagine future fellows might (and should!) feel emboldened to challenge the brief including its expectations and deliverables if for no other reason than that they can change at any moment." — Michael Jefferson

Fellow Fellows: Unearthing the Architectural History of Early Schools for the Deaf with Kelly Daviduke (read interview here)

Whether you are earning a degree in architecture history or working as an architect, being aware of the historical context is important for understanding the environment that you’re working in..." — Kelly Daviduke

Fellow Fellows: Ranitri Weerasuriya, the 2018 Goodman Fellow at GSAPP (read interview here)

I’m able to give back to a community that will probably never hire an architect but will have the tools they need to shape their circumstances through critical thinking and self-initiation [...]This fellowship enabled me to re-think ways of contributing to my home country as an architectural practitioner. — Ranitri Weerasuriya

Galen Pardee and "The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition" (read interview here) 

I think the larger reckoning facing architecture after this summer put the exhibition in perspective. The pandemic and protests around Black Lives Matter exposed much larger blind spots in architecture and in academia, and it was my place to listen and learn: I’m still listening and learning today..." — Galen Pardee

Explore over 15 in-depth interviews with former fellows from Syracuse University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Harvard GSD, SCI-Arc, Kent State University, and more in our Fellow Fellows series. To stay up to date with these interviews, follow the Fellow Fellows tag here by clicking the blue "+ Follow" button at the top left.