Assistant or Associate Professor, Architecture, Technology/Tectonic Culture | Rhode Island School of Design - Military Veterans
at HERC - New England
Position Description: The Rhode Island School of Design ( RISD ) Architecture department invites applicants for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence fall 2025. Rank will be dependent on professional status and teaching experience. The department seeks qualified individuals for a full-time critical review position (RISD's version of tenure) to offer undergraduate and graduate-level instruction in the area of building, architectural tectonics, and fabrication. This is a design-plus position; successful candidates will teach undergraduate and graduate students, at the core and thesis levels in addition to teaching foundational, required, and advanced courses in their area of expertise. The department values applicants with a demonstrated record of university-level teaching (core and advanced) and with a demonstrated record of scholarly contributions and/or exhibition/installation/built work. The department welcomes versatile applicants equally adept with AI/machine learning and hand tools, at home in the classroom and fabrication shop with demonstrated construction/fabrication experience. The department seeks candidates with demonstrated knowledge of and experience with the cultural traditions of building construction, coupled with an interest and ability in advancing new fabrication and construction techniques driven by digital processes and material technology. RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution's social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college graduates. Required Qualifications: A terminal degree in Architecture (M.Arch, or equivalent) or allied discipline. Demonstrated record teaching coursework (core and advanced) in the area of architectural technology, building tectonics and/or fabrication. Professional practice and/or licensure in architecture, or demonstrated evidence of contributions to one's area of expertise (e.g. advanced specialized degrees, publications, exhibitions, built work). Preferred Qualifications: A minimum of 3 years teaching experience architectural courses at the college-level Experience with digital output tools and material based shop procedures and equipment is strongly preferred. Experience integrating emerging technologies or mediums with studio, seminar and/or lecture teaching Experience shaping architectural curricula Academic leadership experience and/or interest (e.g. service as department head, graduate program director) Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Department of Architecture
Providence, RI
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