"Assistant Professor, School of Architecture (T/TE)"

Position Highlights

The School of Architecture at the University of Arizona seeks applicants whose research, teaching, and creative practice bridge design innovation, 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.

1. Advance Computational and Performance-Driven Design
   Contribute to a research-intensive university where architectural design critically engages technology and the environment. We welcome individuals whose work integrates computational design, performance modeling, and emerging tools such as artificial intelligence to address the complex relationships among people, buildings, and ecosystems.
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 diverse 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

We seek a new and committed colleague for a tenure-track position at The University of Arizona, a Research 1 university located in Tucson, a cultural gem in the Southwest. The faculty member hired will be a current or future leader who expands the boundaries of innovative and experimental design with approaches informed by computational design, performance modeling, and/or advanced digital tools such as AI. The work will engage these tools with the aim of addressing grand social and environmental challenges, such as environmental impact and ecosystem degradations, including energy, water, air, and/or material flows and applications.

Our new colleague will actively build new collaborations with faculty in the School of Architecture and in allied disciplines including Sustainable Built Environments, Landscape Architecture and/or Urban Planning. Within the broader context of the University, there is potential for a wide network of partnerships programs centered on resilience, AI and data, environment, energy, health, and water. The candidate may demonstrate alignment with one or more of the university's key research areas: 1) Data, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence; 2) Energy, Mining, and Environmental Sustainability; 3) The Future of Health and Biomedical Sciences; 4) The Human Experience; 5) National Security; 6) Space Sciences.

The School of Architecture at The University of Arizona's regards the local built environment as inseparable from the Sonoran Desert, where generations of people have thrived in an extreme climate. With growing enrollments enriching our already dynamic, and engaged student body, our program seeks new colleagues aligned with our mission to "address complex social and environmental issues, locally and globally, through professional education, critical inquiry, research and innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Professional degree in architecture (Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture or international equivalent)
• Post-Graduate Degree in Architecture or Related Discipline (Master's Degree or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD or doctorate in architecture or related discipline.
• Professional design 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.

Rank

Assistant Professor

Tenure Information

Tenure Track (T/TE)

FLSA

Exempt

Full Time/Part Time

Full Time

Number of Hours Worked per Week

40

Job FTE

1.0

Work Calendar

Academic

Job Category

Faculty

Benefits Eligible

Yes - Full Benefits

Rate of Pay

DOE

Compensation Type

salary at 1.0 full-time equivalency (FTE)

Type of criminal background check required

Name-based criminal background check (non-security sensitive)

Number of Vacancies

1

Contact Information for Candidates

Alex Litchfield
alitchfield@arizona.edu

Open Until Filled

Yes

Documents Needed to Apply

Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and Five Additional Documents

Special Instructions to Applicant

• Cover letter (1-2 pages max)
• CV
• In the Additional Document slot: Why the candidate is interested in the University of Arizona and alignment with one or more of the university's key research areas
• In the Additional Document slot: 5- year research/scholarship/creative practice plan including potential external funding sources and milestones (such as publications or other outputs) (2-3 pages max)
• In the Additional Document slot: Teaching philosophy statement (1 page max) and a writing sample
• In the Additional Document slot: Three references (name, contact information and relationship to the applicant)
• In the Additional Document slot: Design, research, scholarship and/or creative practice portfolio (PDF, max. dimensions 11 x 17, landscape format preferred, 10 pages and 20 MB file size max.)