Following last week’s look at an opening for an Assistant Professor for AI in the Built Environment at the University of Florida, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opportunity on Archinect Jobs for the Howard E. LeFevre ‘29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship at the Ohio State University.
The fellowship, overseen by the university’s Knowlton School of Architecture, offers the “opportunity and resources for an emerging practitioner to pursue an advanced research project directed toward expanding the boundaries of the discipline.” In addition to their core research work, the successful applicant for the nine-month fellowship will be asked to teach design studios related to their topic and to prepare and present a public exhibition.
Why the role interests us
The Howard E. LeFevre '29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship has been the subject of several features and news reporting across Archinect’s editorial in recent years. Earlier this year, we reported that the designer, writer, and educator Samiha Meem was to receive the 2023-24 edition of the fellowship. During her time as the LeFevre Fellow, is focusing on a research-based project that addresses "cultural reality production through the exploitation of falseness under model collapses in intelligence infrastructures.”
In November 2022, meanwhile, we interviewed Zelig Fok, the 2021-2022 recipient of the fellowship. Fok used the fellowship to explore architectural photography as its own agent, reflecting on the specific histories and tactics developed in the image-based discipline.
“Despite significant differences between the practice of architecture and the practice of photography, both disciplines are subject to similar scrutiny when examining their conventions surrounding representation, production, and documentation,” Fok told us. “With representational ambiguity and image-based mediation intensified by digital platforms, physical environments are constantly mediated by unstable, ever-changing photographic existences. I’m highly interested in these environments created by cameras that don’t actually exist.”
Two years prior, we spoke with the 2019-2020 recipient of the fellowship, Galen Pardee, who explained how he used the fellowship to explore the ways in which architecture can “anticipate conditions of material stewardship and climate change to re-configure practice towards public service.”
The Howard E. LeFevre '29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship is one of many fellowships and funded research opportunities to feature on our editorial, exemplified most notably through our ongoing Fellow Fellows series. Past fellowships to feature in our Job Highlights series, meanwhile, include the MoMA PS1 fellowship and the Public Interest Design Fellowship at the University of Detroit Mercy’s Detroit Collaborative Design Center.
Further reading for interested candidates
Job Highlights is one of a number of ongoing weekly series showcasing the opportunities available on our industry-leading job board. Our Meet Your Next Employer series profiles and interviews interesting studios with open positions currently available on Archinect Jobs, while our weekly roundups curate job opportunities by location, career level, and job description.
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