Open-Rank Assistant or Associate Professor (School of Architecture)

Job Title: Open-Rank Assistant or Associate Professor (School of Architecture)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 267685
About Us

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the School of Architecture

The Georgia Tech School of Architecture is filled with world-changers, entrepreneurs, and makers, and we fuel their ambitions by providing the resources, knowledge, applications, and connections necessary for their success. We offer an undergraduate degree, three different graduate degrees and a Ph.D. degree.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Job Summary

The Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture invites applications for a full-time tenure track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with the capacity for impact in architectural design through work on novel computational techniques, innovative structural forms, or new materials, or on some combination of these. Candidates are expected to be able to build on the legacy of the Georgia Tech School of Architecture as a leader in these fields and contribute to near and next-generation design technology research. Teaching and/or professional experience in computationally driven architectural and/or structural design for a minimum of two years is a requirement.

The successful candidate will be expected to establish interdisciplinary collaborations in teaching and research with faculty from other schools within the College of Design and across campus including computing, engineering, and science, and will be given support in making these connections. Teaching responsibilities include an undergraduate or graduate design studio and seminar or workshop in the area of computational design, structural design, and/or material research each semester. SoA faculty have access to all the resources of the College of Design for their research and teaching, including a Digital Fabrication & Robotics Laboratory that houses a suite of industrial-scale CNC machines.

Candidates are sought with evident strength and continued promise as innovators in architectural design pedagogy; and whose own creative work demonstrates the ability to infuse design culture with the potential of new enabling tools and end-product technologies in service to broader social, cultural, and environmental aims. Candidates will be expected to engage in the translation of relevant fundamental research into design practice and initiate new research in the light of questions identified through architecture; to help strengthen the M. Arch. professional program; and to link their own research and scholarship to one of the areas of focus in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have a terminal degree of a Master of Architecture or greater. Professional qualifications in architecture are expected and a doctoral degree is desirable. Publications and/or exhibitions of creative work are expected.

Proposed Salary

This is a full-time, tenure-track appointment with annual nine-month appointments. Candidates receive a salary commensurate with their experience as well as fringe and health benefits.

Required Documents to Attach

Applicants should submit the following material no later than February 29:

• Letter of Interest

• Curriculum Vitae

• Area of Research Statement (2-page max)

• Portfolio of Creative Work and Examples of Teaching

• Recommendation Letters (3)

Contact Information

Submit any questions to Julie Ju-Youn Kim, Chair, School of Architecture, julie.kim@design.gatech.edu

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

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All members of the USG community must adhere to the USG Statement of Core Values, which consists of Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values shape and fundamentally support our University's work. Additionally, all faculty, staff, and administrators must also be aware of and comply with the Board of Regents and Georgia Institute of Technology's policies on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. More information on these policies can be found here: Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Other Information

Final materials will be uploaded to a link on Careers

• February 29: Search committee begins the review of applications.

• March 15: shortlist announced

• March 15-30: interviews

• April 15: Appointment announced.

In the event that there is not a good fit between the strongest applicants and the requirements of the School the search will be extended.