Assistant Professor of Integrated Design, School of Architecture (T/TE)

The School of Architecture at the University of Arizona invites applicants with expertise in Integrated Design and Energy Performance for a Tenure-Eligible faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position seeks candidates whose research, teaching, and creative practice bridge design innovation, building technology, and environmental performance. We invite candidates who view architecture as a means to advance resilient, equitable, and imaginative futures-those who thrive in collaborative settings and engage inquiry through both design and scholarship.

The University of Arizona is a Research 1 institution located in Tucson, a cultural gem in the Sonoran Desert. The school resides in the College of Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA); a multidisciplinary collaborative community. The School of Architecture's vision is dedicated to addressing the grand challenges of our time; a catalyst in our curriculum, research and public programming. The school has an intrinsic connection to the Sonoran Desert and its exquisite and extreme conditions. It serves as a living laboratory for researching and teaching timeless and emerging environmental, social and cultural phenomena.

CAPLA is home to a 10,000 sf material fabrication lab. The school has a long tradition of empirical research and learning through hands-on material fabrication in required courses, design build projects and community engagement. The University of Arizona is the state's flagship, land-grant institution founded in 1885. It has more than 50,000 students in 22 separate colleges and schools. The research and teaching culture of this university offers great resources and opportunities for collaboration.

Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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We
are seeking an emerging leader in the discipline of architecture with applied
and theoretical experience in integrated design and energy performance
evaluation and optimization. We seek a candidate with the vision and
potential to become a driving force in our school, community, university and
profession. Applicants are to be collegial and collaborative by nature. They
are to establish and maintain an active research agenda supported by external
funding and disseminated through peer reviewed scholarship.

Research areas
may include, but are not limited to:

1. Integrated design of buildings for energy
   efficiency and systems performance including building envelope design and
   optimization.
2. Collaborate Across Disciplines to Address Global Challenges: Join a dynamic
   academic community with strong connections to Sustainable Built Environments,
   Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, as well as to university-wide
   initiatives in Energy, Environment, Water, Health, Data, and AI. This
   position offers the opportunity to cultivate partnerships that
   advance interdisciplinary research aligned with the University's strategic
   research areas.
3. Teach and Research in the Living Laboratory of the Sonoran Desert: Engage in
   a distinctive pedagogical and research context where the built environment is
   inseparable from its desert setting. Tucson's rich ecological and cultural
   landscape provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore architecture's role
   in adaptation, material and energy flows, and climate-responsive design.

The
successful applicant will be responsible for collaborating on and
contributing to the conception, development and delivery of a rigorous and
dynamic accredited architectural education. They are expected to integrate
design methods, simulation and computational analysis, and evidence-based
evaluation of building energy performance and building enclosure design and
optimization. Teaching assignments for this position may include required and
elective courses in architectural technologies and design studios. This
position will also support the emerging building technologies and design and energy
conservation subgroups of the Master of Science in Architecture (MS.Arch)
degree program with student thesis advising.

This
position in integrated design and energy performance aligns with the
University of Arizona's institutional strengths in space and optics, climate
and water resilience, health and medicine, data and engineering, environment
and biodiversity and the human experience. The candidate will actively build collaborations
with faculty in the School of Architecture and in allied disciplines
including Engineering, Health Sciences, Sustainable Built Environments,
Landscape Architecture and/or Urban Planning.

This position
requires service contributions at the school, college and/or university
levels. Service to academic, professional and community organizations is
encouraged.

The normal teaching load for
tenure-eligible faculty in the department under present policy is two
3-credit courses or one 3-credit course and one 6-credit studio per semester
with a workload distribution:

• 40% teaching
• 40% scholarly
  activity/research; and
• 20% service

• Professional degree in architecture (Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture or international equivalent)
• Post-Graduate Degree in Architecture or related discipline (Masters or PhD). If masters is terminal degree, 5-years of relevant research or industry experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience in Integrated Design, Building
  Envelopes and Energy Performance in the context of architecture.

• PhD or doctorate in architecture or related discipline.
  
• Professional design and practice experience and/or licensure
  
• Experience teaching design studio and/or other architecture courses
  
• Demonstrated record or evidence of potential funding for research or creative practice.
  
• Experience in collaborative interdisciplinary practice or teaching and/or ability to bridge across architecture and related fields
  
• Recognition via scholarly publications, creative work, professional achievements or awards.