Assistant Prof. Architectural Design

In the Department of the Built Environment there is a position available for an Assistant Professor (0.8 fte-1 fte) in the chair of Architectural Design and Engineering (ADE). ADE focuses on “making” engaged architecture: innovative, compelling, applicable. The main research areas focus on: sustainability in architecture, building with nature, emerging technologies (like 3D clay printing) and transforming typologies. At ADE we passionately propagate the reciprocity of design and making. Design practice, technology & engineering are carefully and harmoniously integrated, from a human and environmental perspective.

The chair ADE is geared on teaching and research with reference to the design, production and engineering of the built object. The creative tension between technical and artistic ends forms a vital impulse in architectural design, determining the expression of detail, material and structure. At the same time the resultant form of the building is shaped by diverse contextual forces, and it is to a large extent determined by the constructive properties, the functional requirements and scenographic possibilities of the program.

Another important focus within the chair is the development of teaching and research programs specifically concerned with the “making” of architecture: from design to tangible materialized object. The systematic exploration of the methodological scope of ‘research by design’ constitutes a cherished ambition of the chair. If detailing and materialization form the basic focus of the ADE chair, its actual priorities are to place these interests within the urgent concerns of sustainable design, circularity and the innovation of building systems which anticipate upon future technological developments and their influence upon the built environment.

Unit Architectural Urban Design and Engineering
The ADE chair is part of the unit Architectural Urban Design and Engineering (AUDE) with its own research program “Living Cities”. This program is focused on the evolutionary development of the existing city and region, taking into account both its historical path dependencies as well as tomorrows societal challenges.

The Living Cities program specifically focuses on how these aspects work together and materialize in the spatial development of the city and its architecture, interpreted as an evolutionary and integrated process of construction and urbanization driven by socio-historical processes. The program brings together research from the chairs of Architectural History and Theory (AHT), Architectural Design and Engineering (ADE), Rational Architecture (RA).

In line with the Departments’ strategic research agenda on sustainability, energy and inclusivity. The program focuses on exploring and understanding the response of architecture and the development of the city for reuse, adaptation and new interventions in response to these shifting societal challenges.

Key objectives of the position:
The assistant professor will contribute both to the teaching, the research, the impact and the organization of the ADE chair, the AUDE unit and the department as a whole. We expect the candidate to contribute to increasing interdisciplinary collaborations and enforcing the multidisciplinary character of the faculty.

As far as teaching is concerned the successful candidate will take on curricular subjects but also participate in design studio during the bachelor and master phases of the curriculum. The candidate will be expected to evaluate and renew parts of the curriculum in the Bachelor program.

With regard to research and the acquisition of research funding the successful candidate will be expected to initiate and contribute to the ADE chair’s ambitions with regard to research with a special focus on the academic exploration of research by design and the engineering of the built environment.

Job requirements
– Has a graduate degree in architecture.
– Has several years of working experience, preferably postdoc experience after gaining PhD and gained working experience in academia or practice.
– Motivated researcher, with a PhD with a focus on architectural design.
– Has preferably practical experience within the field of architectural design.
– Ability to conduct high quality academic research, reflected in demonstratable outputs
– Ability to teach, demonstrated by experience or assistance in teaching. Informed vision on teaching and learning within your own discipline.
-Strong cooperation skills and ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
– Effective communication and leadership skills, including coaching and mentoring of students and staff, leading a project or chairing a group.
– Excellent (written and verbal) proficiency in English.

Visit our website for more information about the application process or the conditions of employment. You can also contact Hella Ploegmakers, Senior Recruiter, h.a.m.ploegmakers@tue.nl or 06 43559625.

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