Department: DSGN School of Architecture & Environment (SAE)
Rank: Assistant Professor (Visiting), Associate Professor (Visiting), Professor
Annual Basis: 9 Month
Review of Applications Begins
May 5, 2025; position open until filled
Special Instructions to Applicants
Please upload a letter of interest that outlines your area of expertise, along with your professional resume/CV and a portfolio showcasing representative examples of your studio (or other) teaching, creative work, and/or research including research projects.
Department Summary
The School of Architecture & Environment (SAE) is part of the College of Design at the University of Oregon, an Association of American Universities member and tier-one research institution in the Pacific Northwest that is ranked “highest research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The School of Architecture & Environment offers doctoral degree programs in architecture and landscape architecture, graduate degrees in historic preservation, fully accredited graduate and undergraduate professional degrees in architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture, and concurrent graduate degree programs.
The School of Architecture & Environment main campus and the architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture departments are in Eugene, Oregon. The Department of Architecture Portland Program is located in Portland, Oregon. Both Portland and Eugene are bike-friendly and family-friendly cities with ambitious goals for carbon emissions reduction and for community well- being. The University of Oregon has an active Native American Student Union centered at the Many Nations Longhouse. The UO has Black Studies, Latinx Studies, and Disability Studies minors. The UO Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center is a nucleus for Black students and faculty on campus. The new Kalapuya Ilihi Residence Hall at the University of Oregon houses academic communities in Art
+ Design, Media and Social Action, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Social Activism. The School of Architecture and Environment is housed in the College of Design alongside the School of Art + Design and the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management. For more information on the school and programs, please visit:
https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu
Land Acknowledgement: The University of Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of the Southern Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, the Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon.
Position Summary
The University of Oregon in Eugene and Portland, Oregon invites applications for Visiting Faculty Fellowships in Design for Spatial Justice at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor in the areas of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture in the School of Architecture & Environment in the College of Design. The School of Architecture & Environment will award up to three faculty fellowships in design/research-informed teaching for durations of one to two years. Each fellow with a full-time appointment will be expected to teach two courses per quarter (six courses per year). As part of this course load, fellows will be expected to teach design studio at the introductory, intermediate, and/or advanced level. Fellows will also be expected to contribute to scholarship, service, and public programming in support of the Design for Spatial Justice Initiative. For fellows with extensive prior teaching experience, there may be opportunities to engage in studio co-coordination or curricular development. Landscape Architecture candidates will be involved in teaching and related activities supporting the Fuller Field School.
The School of Architecture & Environment at the University of Oregon acknowledges that professional schools of design and design pedagogy in North America have historically disproportionately excluded cultural perspectives outside of European and colonial traditions. The School of Architecture & Environment seeks to participate in remedying these exclusions by recruiting visiting faculty who will use teaching to expand their understanding of environmental, social, and spatial justice in design, who will engage communities within and outside of the institution in their research and teaching, and whose scholarship is enriched by their lived experience.
We are dedicated to strengthening our shared capacity to take intellectual risks and to advance knowledge. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are interested in teaching on questions in spatial justice at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, indigenousness, disability, sexuality, and economic inequality and who are interested in teaching innovation design/research methods with a focus on architectural design studio. Studio methods might include but are not limited to traditional modes of scholarship, design, design research and creative practice; emerging technologies, design media, and fabrication; design and design/build; and community engagement, social practice, or critical spatial practice. Faculty fellows’ teaching will engage both graduate and undergraduate student populations, supporting curricular objectives in core, required courses while also developing elective seminars and/or options studios in the vertical or advanced sequence. Depending on interest and curricular need, design studios, subject area courses, and seminar courses could be in one or more of any of the following areas: interior environments, accessibility, media, design processes, architectural technology, cultural heritage, and heritage conservation, inclusive urbanism, biocultural restoration, traditional ecological knowledge, feminist spatial practice, design computation, integrated design, ecological justice, climate change resilience, habitats/housing, human-centered design, urbanism and/or land use, and materials and methods.
The School of Architecture and Environment seeks an academic community that fully includes students, designers, and scholars whose excellence depends on the breadth of their experiences and perspectives and who are committed to working in a multicultural environment. We intend to identify the best candidate for the position and encourage you to submit your application even if you do not meet all of our preferred qualifications. Please take this opportunity to highlight what excites you about the role and the skills or qualities you can bring as a Design for Spatial Justice Fellow.
Minimum Requirements
Assistant Professor (Visiting):
• A terminal degree in field of interest or related discipline
• Previous teaching and/or practice experience
Associate Professor (Visiting):
• A terminal degree in field of interest or related discipline
• 6 years of teaching experience post terminal degree OR
• Same rank held at another university
Professor (Visiting):
• A terminal degree in field of interest or related discipline
• 12 years of teaching experience post terminal degree OR
• Same rank held at another university
Professional Competencies
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively and facilitate student learning.
• Ability to communicate how issues of justice and equity impact theoretical approaches to relevant disciplines and professional practice.
• Ability to conduct independent, high-quality scholarship or creative practice.
Preferred Qualifications
• Terminal degree in Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or Architecture.
• Excellent record of scholarly, creative, or other professional accomplishments in one of these fields.
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
The University of Oregon is proud to offer a robust benefits package to eligible employees, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. For more information about benefits, visit https://hr.uoregon.edu/about-benefits.
The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the ADA. The University encourages all qualified individuals to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, including veteran and disability status. The University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation in connection with the application process, please contact us at uocareers@uoregon.edu or 541-346-5112.
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