Firm Name: University of Delaware
Firm Website: Landscape Architecture | Undergraduate Programs | University of Delaware (udel.edu)
Position Title: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture: Graphic Studies and Studio Instruction
Location: Newark, DE
Position Description:
The University of Delaware (UD) Department of Plant and Soil Sciences seeks outstanding candidates for a 9-month Continuing Track position of Assistant Professor to begin by the Fall of 2024. This position is 85% teaching, 10% Research and 5% service.
The Continuing Track (CT) is UD’s full-time, continuing faculty line, similar to the tenure track. CT faculty enjoy contracts that increase in length over time and, like tenure-track faculty, receive full and generous benefits, including family-friendly benefits, as part of their compensation package. CT faculty with terminal degrees hold professorial rank and have a path to promotion up to full professor; CT faculty without terminal degrees are at the instructor rank and have a parallel path to promotion. All CT faculty earn sabbaticals, have opportunities to pursue research, participate in shared governance, and hold academic leadership positions. More information can be found on the CT Faculty Caucus page, “Why Do You Want to be a CT Faculty at UD?”
Job Roles: Technology is at the core of landscape architectural work and is used in all phases of the design process. The BLA program seeks a Continuing Track professor to teach digital design. This position requires a candidate who has strong skills in visual communication, digital media workflows, and landscape simulation.
Additional areas of expertise should include foundational design principles, urban or regional design and analytics. This position requires an individual with teaching and scholarly or professional experience in digital landscape modeling, representation, and media in the context of contemporary landscape architecture design process and workflow. A successful candidate is expected to teach core design studios at multiple undergraduate levels that employ a range of project scales and complexities. The successful candidate will also lead refinements to a broad range of digital design and GIS instruction in the BLA Curriculum. Areas of scholarly interest might include novel approaches to representation and the pedagogy of graphic instruction, landscape visualization, and modeling, or visual communication and literacy for increasingly diverse student populations and audience types. Candidates must hold a LAAB accredited professional degree in landscape architecture and a terminal degree in their field of graduate study.
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