Assistant Professor in The School of Architecture (Tenure-Track)

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The School of Architecture (SoA) within the University of Utah’s College of Architecture + Planning invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) position in any of the following three content areas: Advanced Building Systems and Technologies; Architectural Design + Historic Preservation, Rehabilitation, and/or GIS; or Human Interactions and Big Data. SoA is highly interested in candidates with expertise in contemporary technologies, transformative processes, and approaches in integrating interdisciplinary collaboration to advance innovative design, research, or creative work, and teaching. This is a full-time, nine-month appointment (1.0 FTE) beginning July 1, 2027.

The School of Architecture (SoA) has a long history of excellence in education, research, and societal impact, with our original architecture degree program dating back over 75 years. As home to the only professionally accredited Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree in the state, the school is known for leading transformative changes, most recently through an integrated curriculum, award-winning design-build programs, and sustained enrollment growth. During the 2025 NAAB Accreditation Site Visit for the M.Arch program, the school excelled, meeting all criteria and achieving 100% compliance. The school aims to be a national leader in architectural education, research, and practice, strongly aligned with the University of Utah’s goals. The School of Architecture is committed to teaching creative critical thinking, community engagement, design excellence, design research, innovative building systems and structural systems, pedagogies and practices in architecture, ecological resilience, global citizenship, leadership/collaboration, risk-taking/exploration, among others. The school aims to expand into these areas, including emerging technologies.

The school expects the successful candidate to contribute to these initiatives. The SoA offers a professionally accredited Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (BSAS), a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS), and a Master of Science in Architectural Studies (MSAS). The SoA is expanding its student enrollment, faculty portfolio, and resources, with a strong vision to sustain the growth. The SoA began offering a new Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS) in Fall 2025. In the near future, the SoA intends to add a new Ph.D. program in Architecture to its portfolio. In the last several years, a new integrated curriculum has been developed with a sequence of immersive design studios with integrated courses (technology, research, theory, design communication, etc.), building up from bachelor’s to master’s to a capstone experience of a student-driven individual design project prepared and supported by architectural research.

Our work in the School of Architecture is interdisciplinary and integrated. We are known as champions of place-based engagement (including our signature DesignBuildUTAH program), social justice, environmental stewardship, and design for health and resilience. Faculty members in the School of Architecture are associated with multiple research entities across campus, including the Design Institute for Health and Resilience (dihr.utah.edu) and the Transforming Places, Practices and Pedagogies Collaborative (tp3c.utah.edu). We convene critical conversations, host national conferences, foster community dialogues, publish the journal Dialectic, and serve as a test bed for ideas on campus. We are risk-takers and innovators, driven by our ethic of care, which underlies all that we do in our teaching, scholarship, and service. For more information, please visit http://soa.cap.utah.edu.

Position Description:

The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate a background in architectural design at the intersection of any of the following areas: Advanced Building Systems and Technologies; Architectural Design + Historic Preservation, Rehabilitation, and GIS; Human Interactions and Big Data. Successful candidates should also demonstrate a proven record of bringing innovative approaches to teaching and research. Prior teaching experience and scholarly or creative work are essential, particularly in areas that demonstrate the integration of architectural design and their respective research areas.

Candidates should demonstrate the ability to engage students through hands-on learning and critical thinking. The application and integration of emerging technologies and trends in the core area(s) will be highly valued. Successful candidates will teach across all our programs (undergraduate and graduate), including design studios and core courses in their areas of expertise to attain architectural design excellence, with opportunities to integrate knowledge of their research, creative work, or expertise into those courses. Expertise and a critical understanding of design studios and their core research or creative work are essential. The position will require strong integration with studios and other core courses, and the ability to take a leadership role in this area of the curriculum is critical.

Candidates will be required to conduct quality research and produce scholarly work within an R1 university setting. Based on the research expectations for this position, successful candidates will have a strong research trajectory and may hold a Ph.D. degree. The SoA’s expectations of candidates during retention and promotion reviews include (1) seeking competitive external funding to support research and creative work, (2) maintaining strong publication and creative works of the highest quality, and (3) supporting and mentoring students through research.

Candidates will be required to show commitment in promoting the School of Architecture’s core beliefs – design excellence, responsibility, resiliency, respect and response. Additionally, candidates will take responsibility for committee and service assignments. Candidates should possess a quality of mind displaying high levels of intelligence, clarity of communication, analytical competence, critical judgment, originality, and initiative. Candidates should value, advocate for, and encourage free analysis and representation and constructive, mutually respectful relationships with faculty, staff, and students.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A terminal degree in either architecture or related fields.

• Previous academic teaching and/or professional experience (with examples).

• Demonstration of research and/or creative work, and demonstration of trajectory of excellence in these areas.

• Ability to teach design studio courses and seminars in which students develop innovative architectural designs with knowledge of their core areas of expertise.

• Ability to teach core and advanced courses in their areas of expertise.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Accredited degree in architecture or doctoral degree in architecture or a related field (with a focus on the preferred areas).

• Educational training or experience in the application of their core areas of expertise.

• Integration of architectural research with design projects.

• Awards or recognition for teaching and/or design.

Notice

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

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Special Instructions for Candidates

Qualified applicants must submit:

a) A letter of intent that includes connecting their qualifications as well as their areas of research and teaching interests to one of the three content areas. The letter of intent should also include the candidate’s approach to our school’s core beliefs.

b) Curriculum Vitae.

c) Teaching philosophy (one page).

d) Research Statement (one page).

e) A scholarly/design portfolio including architectural design work, research or creative activities and examples of students’ work (8MB max or a link to a digital portfolio).

f) Names and contact information of three references (with phone, mail, and email addresses). References will not be contacted prior to receiving the candidate’s consent to contact.

All materials should be uploaded via https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/.

Candidates may be asked to provide additional information during the search process.

Please address questions about the search for this position to the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Keith Diaz Moore: diazmoore@utah.edu.

For questions specifically about the School of Architecture and academic programs within the school, please contact the Chair of the School of Architecture, Dr. Timothy O. Adekunle: timothy.adekunle@utah.edu.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2026, and the position remains open until filled.