Professor of Landscape Architecture

Harvard's Department of Landscape Architecture is actively seeking highly qualified individuals for the position of full professor, offering graduate-level instruction and conducting advanced research with an emphasis on design.

The preferred candidate should have established a distinguished international reputation for their work in the discipline and/or profession of landscape architecture. They should have experience teaching at the graduate level, and are expected to teach in design studios, lectures, seminars, and/or workshops in the context of an interdisciplinary design school with collaborative faculties in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering, and design studies.

Applicants should be prepared to advise thesis students and doctoral students. All full professors at the GSD are active participants in the collective project of the school itself, which might include program and departmental leadership roles.

We seek candidates who are committed to advancing environmental and social justice in the contemporary city. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in landscape architecture and its intersection with urban design and contemporary public realm design—including, for example, innovative infrastructure design, climate change, human health and design, engagement with underserved communities, urban recreational landscapes, waste sites and post-industrial landscapes—at all scales of human and non-human interactions.

Candidates should see their work as expanding disciplinary boundaries and working across scales, embracing the multiple forces that contribute to the conceptualization of urban landscapes and their public dimensions. We are interested in candidates who have developed a research trajectory in public realm landscapes or with a history of consequential professional practice that ties to a design research agenda.

The Department of Landscape Architecture educates landscape architects as committed protagonists in the urgent global demand to design a more equitable distribution of ecological, environmental, spatial, and economic resources. Candidates should regard this position as a robust platform for cultural discourse, community engagement, and disciplinary leadership in the advancement of improved landscape futures across all regions of the world.

Applicants are required to hold a master-level degree in landscape architecture or equivalent, or in a closely related field. A doctoral degree is considered an enhancement. The school seeks to attract and retain individuals who possess a quality of mind demonstrating high levels of independent thought, clarity of expression, analytical ability, critical judgment, imagination, creativity, initiative, and industry, and a quality that enables individuals to support free inquiry and expression by others and to interact in constructive, collegial, congenial collaboration with faculty, staff, and students.

Creative contributions to the field through scholarship or design are essential to effective teaching over time. Continued study and inquiry with public exposition of research and professional accomplishments are normal obligations of faculty at Harvard.

The faculty search committee will review applications on a rolling basis starting in June.

Candidates should submit:

• Letter of Interest

At a later date, candidates advancing in the selection process will be asked to provide additional material.

If visa sponsorship is needed, Harvard retains the discretion to determine which visa status is appropriate and whether a visa sponsorship application will ultimately be submitted, including payment of any applicable fees.

Caroline Newton, Director, Faculty Affairs

cnewtonvard.edu

Professor (full-time, tenured) hiring range: $185,000+

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Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

• Curriculum Vitae
• Cover Letter

• Statement of Teaching Philosophy
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