Assistant Professor in Architecture

Position Details

University of Colorado | Denver

Faculty Level/

Title:

Assistant Professor

Working Title:

Assistant Professor in Architecture

FTE:
Full-time

Salary: $85,000

Position #  

- Requisition #38195

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About the University of Colorado - Denver

Millions of moments start at CU Denver, a place where innovation, research, and learning meet in the heart of a global city. We're the state's premier public urban research university with more than 100 in-demand, top ranked bachelors', masters', and doctoral degree programs. We partner with diverse learners-at any stage of their life and career-for transformative educational experiences. Across seven schools and colleges, our leading faculty inspires and works alongside students to solve complex challenges and produce impactful creative work.

As part of the state's largest university system, CU Denver is a major contributor to the Colorado economy, with 2,000 employees and an annual economic impact of $800 million. To learn more about how CU Denver helps learners meet their moment, visit ucdenver.edu.

Job Description

* Applications are accepted electronically ONLY .edu/cu-careers
* The Department of Architecture is committed to design, research, and scholarship and engagement with diverse perspectives through design inquiry and making in pursuit of an architecture that is open to all.

The Department of Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver has openings for multiple full-time, Tenure-Track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. The anticipated start date is August 2026.

The department seeks highly motivated candidates who can address contemporary challenges with an experimental and critical mindset, have a well-developed teaching pedagogy, and a recognized record for contributing to design studio discourse and culture with a progressive research agenda and/or creative practice agenda. Applicants must demonstrate the potential to teach undergraduate students from a diversity of backgrounds at the intersection of design, critical theory, and technology through foundational and advanced studios, large lecture courses, and seminars.

Successful candidates should demonstrate the potential for, or evidence of, excellence in teaching and scholarship. This evidence should include publications, and substantial external funding activity, as well as a commitment to developing innovative research initiatives that will contribute to CU Denver's strategic vision of becoming internationally recognized for our research and creative work. The Department of Architecture is interested in applicants who are committed to engaging in teaching, research, and mentoring in diverse and inclusive settings.

About the Architecture Department

Located at the foot of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, CU Denver is the only accredited school of architecture in Colorado. Its faculty members are committed to the ethos of providing a broad-ranging public education and scholarship agenda to a diverse student body. Being in a major urban center within a beautiful, yet fragile ecosystem, with growing industries of sustainable technology, and an emerging art/cultural scene, provides a unique setting to research the most urgent challenges of our contemporary moment.

The university engages nationally and internationally through initiatives that include the Colorado Building Workshop's design build initiatives, LoDo Lab experimental material research, global travel studios, and an extracurricular program of lectures, exhibitions and round tables that brings renowned international speakers to the school.

The Department of Architecture's Statement of Purpose is: "Through design inquiry and making, we engage diverse perspectives in pursuit of an architecture open to all". As such, we seek candidates who will prioritize and advance these values largely through excellence in teaching and teaching related activities with a focus on the undergraduate architecture program. Our faculty and students are makers, global citizens, and advocates in a changing world that aligns with the evolving nature of collaborative and professional practice.

The Department of Architecture delivers a four-year pre-professional program (BS Arch), and a NAAB fully accredited Master of Architecture (M.Arch) for first professional degree students who hold either a non- preprofessional or preprofessional bachelor's degree and is housed in the College of Architecture and Planning.

College of Architecture and Planning

The architecture department is located within, the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) that offers degrees in Landscape Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Historic Preservation, Urban Design, and a Ph.D. in Design, Geography and Planning. For more information visit: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Assistant Professor

What you will do:

Assistant Professor positions in the College of Architecture and Planning engage in teaching, research/creative work, and service.…