Begin the 2022 academic year with a fellowship position from seven institutions and organizations. Each opportunity not only provides fellows with employment at said institution/organization, but it also provides the ability for individuals to expand on their research interests through teaching, exhibition, and developing built works.

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ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS

Interdisciplinary Design Fellow
Institution: The University of British Columbia

Details: "The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for an Interdisciplinary Design Fellow. This is a non-renewable two-year term appointment at the rank of Lecturer beginning August 2022 (anticipated). Applicants from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design with a demonstrated commitment to interdisciplinary education, design, and/or research are encouraged to apply. This new Interdisciplinary Design Fellowship supports SALA’s well-established reputation for interdisciplinary teaching and research. To further encourage a productive discourse across disciplines, each two-year fellowship cycle is framed by a theme determined by the SALA faculty. In 2022-2024, the inaugural theme REPAIR is intended to uncover the diverse forms of maintenance and care that sustain the contemporary built environment. We seek applicants whose research engages design strategies that reflect broad notions of repair." Read more here.

Harry der Boghosian Fellowship for Academic Year 2022-2023
Institution: Syracuse University

Details: "The Harry der Boghosian Fellowship is an endowed faculty fellowship that enables faculty, early in their teaching careers, to spend a year in residence at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. The recipient, over the course of an academic year, will develop a body of design research while teaching at the school. Fellows will teach one studio and two elective courses over two semesters that focus on the Fellow’s research project. The combined research and teaching will culminate in a public lecture and exhibition at the end of the spring semester. The Boghosian Fellow is expected to determine and pursue an independent research agenda within the discipline of architecture. The recipient will conduct research and develop the project with students enrolled in their studio and elective courses." Read more here.

Howard E. LeFevre ‘29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship
Institution: The Ohio State University

Details: "The architecture section of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University seeks candidates for the Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship. The annual fellowship offers the opportunity and resources for an emerging practitioner to pursue advanced research directed toward expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Past fellows have explored a broad range of topics relative to contemporary issues in the discipline and culture at large. Since 2000, the LeFevre Fellowship has supported architects and designers with a range of research interests, including history, theory, contemporary culture, media, technology, material assembly, and advanced digital techniques with respect to the design of the built environment. We seek candidates to continue the tradition of supporting innovative research centered on topics relevant to the continued evolution of disciplinary practice." Read more here.

Architecture Fellowships
Institution: University of Michigan

Details: "The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning seeks applications for fellowships in the areas of architectural research, design, and pedagogy. We particularly welcome applications from designers, practitioners, spatial activists and advocates, and researchers focusing on the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, climate, and the built environment. National and international candidates whose work involves public engagement, those from non-traditional pathways into the study of architecture and the built environment, those hailing from or committed to servicing lesser resourced contexts, and those seeking to forward teaching and research practices that encourage inclusion are all encouraged to apply. The fellowships at Taubman College are among the oldest and most recognized positions of their kind." Read more here.

Architecture Teaching Fellow
Institution: Bard College

Details: "Bard College invites applications for its inaugural Architecture Teaching Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded biennially to an emerging architect, urban designer, landscape architect or other spatial practitioner whose creative work mobilizes a culture that attends to societal concerns and spatial justice. This two-year appointment, beginning in the fall of 2022, is intended to serve as a platform of support for those embarking on a teaching and design career. The selected fellow will be expected to teach at an equivalent of two design studios and a seminar each academic year and to complete their two-year appointment by sharing their work publicly through an exhibition of their own work." Read more here.

PREVIOUSLY FEATURED FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

NYSERDA's Climate Justice Fellowship
Firm: Paul A. Castrucci Architects

Details: "The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will train workers for good-paying jobs. Specifically, this Climate Justice Fellowship focuses on investing in historically disadvantaged communities and priority populations, including low-income individuals, veterans, individuals with disabilities, formerly incarcerated residents, Incumbent or unemployed power plant workers, homeless individuals, single parents or residence of disadvantage community." Read more here.

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

Details: "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." Read more here.

If you're interested in reading more about academic fellowship coverage on Archinect be sure to check out Archinect's special Fellow Fellows series. Fellow Fellows aims to understand what these positions offer for both the fellows themselves and the discipline at large by presenting their work and experiences through an in-depth interview. Fellow Fellows is about bringing attention and inquiry to academia's otherwise maddening pace while also offering a broad view of the exceptional and breakthrough work done by people navigating the early parts of their careers.

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