Assistant/Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

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Atlanta, GA

About the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The School of Architecture encompasses a community of enthusiastic discoverers, creators, and design thinkers whose creative works demonstrate the ability to infuse design culture with new enabling tools and end-product technologies in service to broader social, cultural, and environmental aims. Aligned with the focus areas of the Georgia Tech 2020-2030 Strategic Plan in the areas of expanding access, amplifying impact, and leading by example, the School of Architecture empowers our faculty, staff, and students to address complex problems, leveraging technology to improve our world through projective and optimistic acts of design.

The Georgia Tech architect is an entrepreneur, practitioner, activist, leader, strategist, visionary, and teacher advancing the future of practice, education, and the discipline of architecture.

Information on Georgia Tech and the School of Architecture is best accessed on our website: https://arch.gatech.edu/

The Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture invites applications for the inaugural holder of the Speedwell Foundation Landscape Architecture Professorship. This tenure-track appointment may be made at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor rank. We seek a candidate whose work engages the design of urban landscapes and systems and explores their integration with architecture and urban design.

The successful candidate will advance knowledge across the School's degree programs by demonstrating how landscape architecture can creatively contribute to ecological resilience, environmental stewardship, and community well-being. Support from the Speedwell Foundation will provide resources to advance the faculty member's research agenda and foster opportunities for graduate student research and mentorship.

In addition, the successful candidate will collaborate with the Chair of the School of Architecture and the Dean of the College of Design to help envision the future direction of the Master of Science in Urban Design program and strengthen its role within an evolving design and urbanization discourse. This position will teach.

This is a full-time 9-month tenure-track appointment requiring residency in Atlanta, Georgia. Tenure on appointment will be considered for qualified candidates. This appointment is scheduled to begin in Fall 2027, with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2027.

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values. These values include academic excellence, freedom of expression and inquiry, innovation, collaboration, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

The responsibilities of the successful candidate include, but are not limited to the following:

Contribute to required design studio teaching across the School of Architecture's degree programs (BS Arch, MSUD, and M Arch), including core architecture design studios

Contribute to required history/theory classes, as needed

Offer elective seminars or workshops as needed on landscape architecture topics such as, but not limited to the following: design of urban parks, urban ecology, green infrastructure & hydrological systems, climate change adaptation, etc.

Securing and conducting funded research and externally sponsored activities

Candidates must have at least one degree in Architecture and the terminal degree of Master of Landscape Architecture, or greater.

A doctoral degree is not required but is preferred.

Candidates should demonstrate expertise and a strong record of publications, as well as demonstrated potential for securing sponsored research and excellence in teaching.

Student Success Criteria:

The ability to teach and mentor a multifaceted student body

The ability to promote a welcoming educational/work environment

The ability to mentor and assist students interested in pursuing graduate education

The ability to design and teach curricula that are responsive to all students

The ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students

The ability to engage students in experiential learning activities and pedagogy that support student success

The ability to engage in high-impact practices that support deep learning for student success

The ability to apply expertise in teaching, scholarship, and/or service to advance student success

Interested candidates must submit the following materials:

Letter of Interest

Curriculum Vitae

Area of Research Statement (2-page max)

Teaching Interest Statement (1-page max)

Portfolio of Research Work including examples of Teaching

Names and Contact Information for three references

For more information please contact Julie Kim at julie.kim@design.gatech.edu

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Review of applications will begin on October 31, 2026 and continue until the position is filled. The interview process is expected to start in October.

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