Following our previous look at an opening for a Digital Design Specialist at Branch Technology, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Emerging Scholar in Design at The University of Texas at Austin.
The University of Texas at Austin offers accredited degree programs in Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Community and Regional Planning. It also provides advanced studies in Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, and Architectural History. The school is notable for its extensive material library and a technology lab equipped for AR/VR, drones, robotics, and digital fabrication research.
The two-year fellowship is open to “promising individuals at the beginning of their academic careers in architecture and its allied fields,” seeking to support the creation of a distinctive body of work and provide teaching experience in an academic environment. Among the qualifications requested from applicants is a professional or terminal degree in a design discipline alongside evidence of relevant current research or design work.
Why the role interests us
The open fellowship at UT Austin offers us the opportunity to explore our previous reporting on the school’s investigations into sustainability, race, and culture. In September 2022, for example, our Archinect Studio Pin-Ups series focused on the school’s Green Core Studio which explored sustainable energy production in residential building design.
“As climate change ravages our world, it is imperative that architectural design tackle sustainability across the various disciplines — from the formal to the system, from the material to the energetic, of the practice,” the studio told us. “Although sustainability practices have long existed within the architectural profession, progressive technologies are usually implemented in large-scale civic and commercial projects. There is a severe bottleneck in this area where single-family homes are concerned and ripe for architectural innovation.”
UT Austin’s investigations into sustainable design also saw the school’s Materials Lab receive a $60,000 grant in August 2022. Among the assignments to be undertaken using the funds are a study of sustainable products and a restructuring of the initiative’s circulating library and digital databases. In April 2022, meanwhile, a UT Austin team won the 2022 ULI Gerald Hines Student Competition with an Oakland development that focused on enhancing the urban environment of some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.
The Emerging Scholar in Design Fellowship is also not the only fellowship from UT Austin to feature in our editorial. In 2021, our Fellow Fellows series met Todd Brown as he embarked on his new role as UT Austin’s 2021–2023 Race and Gender in the Built Environment Fellow.
“I hope to introduce and contribute to conversations on race and space within the field of architecture by bringing empirical social science research into the equation, along with my speculative theoretical work,” Brown told us at the time. “I hope to challenge many of the major assumptions prevalent in traditional architectural [design] pedagogy.”
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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