Assistant​/Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Design Practices

Organisation/Company AALTO UNIVERSITY Research Field Architecture Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) First Stage Researcher (R1) Final date to receive applications 13 Feb 2026 - 00:00 (UTC) Country Finland Type of Contract Permanent Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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The Department of Architecture at Aalto University is an internationally renowned education and research unit (within top 3% in the world in architecture). With respect to Finland’s esteemed architectural heritage, we search for new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. To us, architecture is an art form that requires practical skills and individual artistic development, as well as knowledge on sustainability relevant to design and planning.

We educate critical thinkers who accept their responsibility to research and design a socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable built environment. The Department of Architecture offers majors in architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture. Currently, the BA level courses are taught primarily in Finnish whilst MA and doctoral level studies primarily in English. For more information, please see: /

The Department of Architecture invites application for the position of:

Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure track or tenured) in Landscape architecture, especially landscape design practices

The position will begin on 1 April 2027, or as agreed, and it is placed within the Major of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture. The position is to be filled at the Assistant or Associate professor level of Aalto University tenure track system (please see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). ). The position is full-time.

Landscape architecture is a growing and rapidly evolving field that uniquely combines artistic, scientific, and technical expertise. Aalto University is Finland’s only academic institute in the field of landscape architecture. Landscape architecture focuses on two major topics:
1) landscape planning and management, and
2) landscape design and construction. In addition, it collaborates closely with urban planning and urban design within the major of architecture. To further strengthen its leadership in the field, Aalto ARTS has opened a call to find a tenure track or tenured professor in Landscape Architecture with the focus on landscape design and its professional/artistic practices. The position addresses the creation of sustainable, functional, and meaningful landscapes of outstanding design quality, especially at a local and site scale.

The post is extremely important for the future standard of artistic practice and practical design expertise in the field of landscape architecture, especially in a context where there is a growing demand for skilled professionals and high-quality design solutions.

Your role and goals

The professor of Landscape Architecture is expected to contribute to the artistic foundations of the landscape design discipline and its professional practices. The contributions of the applicant may be emphasized on
1) architectural, conceptual, theoretical, societal reflections of the field and/or
2) on landscape construction, materials, detailing and related sustainability aspects.

The applicant is expected to embed landscape design practices into teaching and academic debate in the field. The tasks include teaching/tutoring students in their design projects as well as development and administrative work within the department. The professor will work in cooperation with other teaching staff of the department, especially with professors and lecturers in landscape architecture. There are three professors in landscape architecture at the moment: two with a focus on landscape planning/management in the research/practice-interface, and this position with a design and professional/artistic focus.

In addition to professors, there are four lecturers in landscape architecture, two of them specifically teaching landscape design and construction. The professor is also expected to collaborate with other fields in the department, as well as build networks with other departments of the university and with collaborators beyond Aalto University. We expect you to participate in service to the Aalto University community and to encourage you to cross-disciplinary networking as well as interacting actively with society at large and stakeholders outside the academy.

In all levels of the tenure track system, a professor is expected to perform high-quality artistic/research activities with societal impact as well as teaching at all levels - graduate, undergraduate levels and post-graduate (at this position practice-based, artistic research), to be an active member of the international design research and practice communities, and to exhibit academic…