The Fall academic term is here, and as schools of architecture continue to maneuver and pivot towards safe and effective ways to begin the new school term, they are also searching for new faculty. Widening the academic pool with new faculty is a growing need. As Archinect continues to be the go-to source for employment and professional practice-related news and trends, we also continue with our ongoing coverage of the state of academia today.

If you're interested in shaping the future of young designers as an associate professor, design fabrications professional, lecturer, or academic dean, below are 15 open positions listened on the Archinect Job Board.

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University of Minnesota seeks an Assistant/Associate Professor for their College of Design
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Description: "The College of Design at the University of Minnesota is hiring four assistant/associate professors with tenure rank to be determined for the Design Justice Faculty Cluster Hire Initiative, who are committed to advancing any of their scholarly, pedagogic, and/or service agenda specifically focused on design justice (e.g. racism, racial justice, bias, social equity, and/or power/privilege) within their given design area. Successful candidates will teach a range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses specific to the needs of the program area. Detailed position descriptions for the four areas of architecture, graphic design, interior design, and product design will be forthcoming in September." (read more here)

University of Minnesota seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Description: "The SoA is positioned to draw upon a culturally diverse community seized with the need for race and climate justice, through a curriculum that actively pursues engaged design, research, and scholarship in the College, University, and beyond. Within this context, we seek candidates who bring exceptional, diverse, and critical voices to design studio instruction, who can contribute to our intellectual life, and who are ready to teach graduate and undergraduate design studios. In addition to excellence in design pedagogy, we seek demonstrated expertise in bridging research and design through architectural practices or related interdisciplinary design practice. We seek colleagues who understand the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration and who carry the commitment and energy to act on urgent, environment-shaping forces, both local and global." (read more here)

Kent State University seeks a Sr. Urban Designer
Location: Cleveland, OH

Description: "The College is seeking a Senior Urban Designer with broad multi-disciplinary design experience, an interest in urban design education, and a commitment to public involvement in the design process. He or she will be involved in all aspects of the CUDC’s operations, working closely with the director in initiating new programs, advancing the mission and activities of the organization, leading design projects, and developing proposals for research grants and technical service contracts." (read more here)

Kent State University seeks an Urban Designer
Location: Cleveland, OH

Description: "The CUDC is seeking an Urban Designer with excellent design, graphics, and production skills, an interest in urban design education, and a commitment to public involvement in design processes. The Urban Designer will contribute to all elements of the CUDC’s operations, with the following specific responsibilities: Working on urban design and planning projects for community clients. Participating in research efforts of the CUDC. Contributing to the Making Our Own Space (MOOS) design/build initiative for middle- and high-school students. Developing base maps, infographics, sketch design alternatives, and final urban design products. Assisting in public workshops and design charrettes. Contributing to the development of the CUDC’s public programs and advocacy activities." (read more here)

Missouri University of Science and Technology seeks a Senior Architect
Location, Rolla, MO

Description: "The primary purpose of the Senior Architect position is to engage customers, departments, administration, outside consultants, contractors, and construction managers in order to manage, design, budget, and produce construction documents and ultimately oversee the design portion of construction projects on campus. Examples of responsibilities include: Analyzes design requirements, building code requirements, existing building infrastructure, and systems, and applies standards and guidelines to oversee and produce construction documents w/Revit and/or AutoCAD. Solves complex design, construction, and space management problems. Analyzes project feasibility and design studies relative to requirements, budget, space needs, layout, and arrangement. Designs construction systems and details. Acts as a project manager for in-house design, external consultant-led design projects. Acts as a design, code, and knowledge resource for others in the department." (read more here)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) seeks an IDEAS Urban Strategy Studio Lecturer
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Description: "UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks a Lecturer to co-teach with the lead instructor of the Urban Strategy Studio at the IDEAS campus. UCLA is seeking to fill a one-year Lecturer appointment to co-teach this curriculum under the curricular direction and supervision of the lead faculty of the Urban Strategy Studio. The Lecturer's primary responsibility is to co-teach/teach courses that support the research endeavors of the lead instructor, developing new seminars in support of the research." (read more here)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) seeks an IDEAS Mobility Studio Studio Lecturer
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Description: "UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seek a Lecturer to co-teach with the lead instructor of the Mobility Studio at the IDEAS campus. Mobility considers the impact of autonomous navigation technology on the design of buildings. Mobility transfers detection, mapping, and navigation technology into buildings leading to intelligent environments and studies how machine vision reveals and reorganizes the circulation patterns of moving people and things within buildings. The IDEAS Mobility studio engages moving furniture, rooms, building envelopes, and vertical transportation mechanisms within buildings as well as the moving vehicles, micro-mobility devices, sidewalk robots, aerial drones, and pedestrians that move around, in, and through buildings. Over the last five years, the mobility studio has been the first in the world to introduce machine vision, SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), path planning, and cost mapping to invent moving furniture and interior elements in the built environment. The studio employs particle simulation and agent-based game engine tools to generate spaces and forms rather than to populate or evaluate them." (read more here)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) seeks an IDEAS Technology Studio Lecturer
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Description: "UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks a Lecturer to co-teach with the lead instructor of the Technology Studio at the IDEAS campus. UCLA is seeking to fill a one-year Lecturer appointment to co-teach this curriculum under the curricular direction and supervision of the lead faculty of the Technology studio. The Lecturer's primary responsibility is to co-teach/teach courses that support the research endeavors of the lead instructor, developing new seminars in support of the research." (read more here)

Harvard University seeks a Professor, Associate Professor or Professor in Practice of Urban Design
Location: Cambridge, MA

Description: "The Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) is searching for a distinguished practitioner and/or scholar at the full professorial level in urban design, or a candidate with superior attainment and strong promise at the associate professorial level. Of particular interest are candidates who are designers capable of knowledgeable and quality synthesis and inclusion of a broad range of concerns and factors involved in the production and construction of urban environments. These should include matters of social justice like reducing economic and social inequality, minimizing the effects of constructed development on climate change and other forms of anthropocentric ecological impact, as well as concerns for spatial formation, organizing sustainable mobility and dealing with typo-morphological and related changes in urban conditions." (read more here)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks an Artist and Fabrication Specialist
Location: Cambridge, MA

Description: "The Artist and Fabrication Specialist will support the technical and conceptual development of research and educational projects at the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery (the Studio). We seek a practitioner (artist, designer, architect, etc.) experienced with creative, physical problem-solving, fabrication tools and methods, as well as the perceptual and conceptual concerns and objectives inherent to art and exhibition projects. Part of the MIT Museum, the Studio collaborates with academic departments and labs on new courses and research projects that incorporate experimental museum practice. This position offers the opportunity to interact with MIT students, researchers, and faculty on a regular basis, as well as exposure to new technologies and cutting-edge projects in art/science/technology. We seek someone to join this community and contribute to the ideas, methods and culture of the Studio program." (read more here)

Woodbury University seeks a Career and Outreach Coordinator
Location: Burbank, CA

Description: "Woodbury University invites applications for a Career and Outreach Coordinator in the School of Architecture. This position is for the school to engage and enhance institutional, student, and alumni connections to practice. The Career and Outreach Coordinator acts as the primary liaison between Woodbury University School of Architecture and local and regional architecture and interior design firms and related industries. They also maintain a network of professional relationships towards the facilitation of co-curricular enhancements, such as fieldwork projects and work experience, and the direction of students and alumni towards job opportunities. This position may require travel. This position qualifies University-sponsored employee benefit plans and programs (e.g., group health insurance, life insurance, tax-deferred annuity plan, annual vacation, sick, and paid holidays), subject to the eligibility requirements and conditions of each plan and program." (read more here) 

University of Colorado at Denver seeks a Design Fabrication Labs Professional
Location: Denver, CO

Description: "The Design Fabrication Lab Professional is established to work collaboratively with the Design Fabrication Labs Director in day-to-day operations of the fabrication lab, 20+ student employees and fabrication labs resource management, and Fabrication and Design related training and instruction for the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) traditional/analog and digital fabrication labs.  CAP’s design fabrication labs (including traditional, digital and full-scale build-out spaces) provide resources and instruction for over 900 students, faculty and staff." (read more here)

University of Pennsylvania seeks an Operations Manager
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Description: "The Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services (FRES) provides the expertise, business process, policies and standards required to plan, design, construct, operate, maintain and renew the physical assets of the University, excluding the health system. In addition, the Division, comprised of approximately five Departments, is responsible for the strategic planning, management and operation of non-academic University property, and collaborating with the neighborhood to create a safe, diverse and economically vibrant destination. With close to 12M square feet of space, FRES maintains 186 buildings on a campus of 276 acres, completes over 60,000 maintenance requests per year, and starts approximately 250 projects a year. FRES is comprised of the following Departments: Administration, Office of the University Architect, Design and Construction, Real Estate, Operations and Maintenance." (read more here)

Academic Directorial Positions

Tulane University seeks a Director of Architecture (Open Rank) Location: New Orleans, LA

Description: "The Tulane University School of Architecture seeks qualified candidates to serve as the Director of Architecture programs with a rank and salary commensurate with credentials and experience. The starting date of the position is as early as January and no later than July of 2022. The Director of Architecture is charged with providing academic and administrative leadership for both undergraduate and graduate architecture programs (B.S.Arch, B.Arch, M.Arch I and M.S.ARC); overseeing program budgets, developing curriculum, identifying instructors, coordinating teaching assignments and course schedule(s); assisting the Dean’s office with program accreditation, reviews and assessment processes." (read more here)

The University of Kansas seeks a Dean of the School of Architecture and Design
Location: Lawrence, KS

Description: "The University of Kansas (KU) seeks candidates for the position of Dean for the School of Architecture and Design. As an entrepreneurial leader with a creative vision, the Dean must articulate a mission for the School within both disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts that integrates with the vision, mission, and goals of the University. In response to the dynamic landscape of higher education, the successful candidate must advance the goals and reputation of the School at the regional, national and international levels, continue to foster a commitment to research and discovery in the school, create and continue partnerships with industry for experiential student learning, and actively pursue fundraising efforts with donors and alumni. The Dean must also demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging among students, staff, faculty, parents, and external constituents/community partners." (read more here)

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