Professor, Architecture

As an architecture professor, you'll prepare students for evolving careers in a highly creative, rapidly changing profession. As part of a team of accomplished professors, you’ll teach students to integrate architectural design thinking with technology, professional practice, and emerging approaches, while engaging with the environmental, social, technical, and cultural forces that shape the built environment. At SCAD, you’ll contribute to a growing architecture program through teaching, mentorship, curriculum development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and ongoing engagement with the evolving nature of architectural practice.

Throughout each quarter, you’ll encourage interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration across related creative and technical fields. You’ll also mentor students on design, technical, and professional questions, emphasizing integration and critical thinking, and connect contemporary architectural practice and emerging technologies to course content.

To support the university’s mission of preparing talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment, you’ll:

Conduct course- and program-level assessments
Model professionalism
Fulfill grading and academic documentation requirements
Record attendance
Follow academic policies and regulations and support academic assessment and institutional effectiveness efforts

As a professor, you’ll:

Plan and prepare for teaching
Maintain an active and engaged classroom environment
Facilitate syllabus design, submission, and approval
Hold office hours and midterm grade reviews to provide feedback to students
Provide students with extra help sessions, extended learning opportunities, and field trips

Additionally, you’ll attend on-ground and virtual events including:

Faculty councils
Admission events
Curriculum assessment and development
Institutional effectiveness and accreditation support
Exhibitions or other publicity assignments

Ideal candidates will demonstrate:

Strong architectural design judgment
An ability to connect knowledge to broader architectural thinking and to student learning
Professional experience in emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, sustainability, construction, building systems, computation, fabrication, digital workflows, or interdisciplinary practice
An ability to move fluidly between conceptual thinking and the technical realities of architectural practice

Minimum qualifications:     

Terminal degree in architecture or a relevant field
Academic and professional credentials to teach in architecture
Two years of work experience in a related profession or post-secondary teaching experience and demonstrated architectural design ability and professional experience
Post-secondary teaching experience or demonstrated ability to translate professional expertise into architectural education
Experience engaging contemporary architectural technologies, methods, or modes of practice

Preferred qualifications:  

Previous university-level teaching experience in architecture
Professional experience across multiple phases of architectural design and project delivery
Evidence of continued creative, professional, scholarly, or applied research activity
Ability to translate professional expertise into an active and engaging studio environment

Certificates, licenses, and registrations:

• Professional architectural licensure or comparable credentials

Travel required:  

Less than 10%

Required application documents: 

Current résumé and/or CV 
Cover letter 
Portfolio or its equivalent 
Unofficial academic transcripts 

 

Work hours: As noted in the Employment Agreement.

   

ADA tag: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and minimum qualifications listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and/or meet the minimum qualifications.