Assistant Professor Architecture

Description:

About the School of Architecture and Interior Design

The core mission of the Architecture Program at the School of Architecture and Interior Design is to prepare students for critical engagement with practice. The program promotes leadership, collaboration, intellectual depth, flexibility, and teamwork. The foundation of architecture education at UC remains a liberal arts education, which provides a broad basis for understanding the role of architecture within a cultural and historical context; and a professional curriculum that is enriched with elective seminars, lectures and design studios that provide opportunities to engage in travel/study programs, experimental projects, and service-learning. Students alternate these more traditional academic experiences with periods of professional experience through our landmark cooperative education program (co-op).

The School of Architecture and Interior Design (SAID) confers an accredited first professional graduate degree in Architecture (M Arch), an accredited professional degree in Interior Design (BSID), an undergraduate degree in Architecture (BS Arch), a post-professional degree (MS Arch) and Ph.D. degree in Architecture. There are approximately 700 students in the School and 25 full-time faculty. SAID’s top-ranked professional degree programs, as well as the BS Arch degree program, include a renowned cooperative education program (Co-op) that places students in professional work environments as part of the curriculum. SAID’s Co-op network includes over 500 firms across the globe.

The core mission of the Architecture Program is to prepare students for critical engagement with practice through a liberal arts education providing a broad basis for understanding architecture’s role within a cultural and historical context. Students alternate academic experiences with periods of professional experience through our cooperative education program.

Essential Functions

• Teaching responsibilities include design studio instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels and may include teaching in one or more other areas such as representation techniques, building fabrication and material research, building system and assembly, and urban design.
• Candidates will be expected to integrate their research interests and/or creative work in teaching.
• Faculty responsibilities include research that may include published material, built work, exhibitions, and participation in conferences in the candidate’s area of expertise.
• Graduate thesis advising.
• Service to the department, the college, and the university such as on academic committees, and service to the greater community as a board member or through participation in advisory groups.

Minimum Requirements

All of the following are required prior to the effective date of the appointment:

• Master’s of Architecture
• At least one academic year of teaching experience in architecture design studios at the university level.