Open rank Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Architecture

Gallery TPW; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Gallery TPW invites applications for an Open rank Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Architecture at the Virginia Tech WAAC in Alexandria. The successful candidate will embody a commitment to architecture and human well-being, engage with diverse communities, and teach various courses in urban design and graduate or undergraduate levels.

This position offers a full-time nine-month appointment, starting August 2025, with responsibilities including leading design labs and providing professional advising. Applicants should have a terminal degree and licensure, demonstrate teaching excellence, and commit to socially-engaged design.

Qualifications

• Must have professional licensure and substantial practice experience.
• Proven ability in studio and seminar teaching required.
• Excellence in communication and collaboration expected.

Responsibilities

• Teach Integrative Design Lab or upper-level Design Lab for graduate or undergraduate students.
• Provide Architecture Licensing advising and internship advising.
• Engage in maintaining relationships with professional organizations.

Skills

Urban design

Building design

Professional practice

Project management

Contemporary building practices

Education

Terminal degree in architecture

PhD in architecture or related field

Job description

Open rank Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Architecture

December 12, 2024

Job description

The Virginia Tech School of Architecture, based in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design, invites applications for Tenured/Tenure Track assistant, associate, or full professor, based at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Campus (WAAC). The successful candidate will be capable of connecting theory and innovative practice through teaching, scholarship, creative practice, and engagement with the city. Candidates should demonstrate a strong commitment to architecture and human well-being at multiple scales across the built environment. Qualified candidates will be expected to rigorously engage and advance theoretical, practical, and productive expertise that results in culturally meaningful and well-crafted built environments.

The WAAC is the urban extension of the School of Architecture in Blacksburg, Virginia. Its compact urban campus is embedded in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in Virginia, across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital. The WAAC is part of a growing Virginia Tech presence in Alexandria, near the new Innovation Campus.

The WAAC offers stand‑alone degrees in Master of Architecture (2‑year professional), Urban Design (MSci Arch), and PhD in Architecture and Design Research, as well as educating study‑away upper‑level Bachelor of Architecture students from the main campus and the National Student Exchange. The WAAC sustains an especially strong and increasingly diverse community and is eager to attract faculty with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. We are looking for people committed to diversifying the profession, willing to contribute their experiences to enrich the campus community life, and who want to work with us to design an architectural education that prepares our students to be active contributors in making the world better.

The primary teaching responsibilities of this position include an Integrative Design Lab or an upper‑level Design Lab for graduate or undergraduate students for both semesters and a required course or professional elective in the professional degree programs. Associated service to students and school could include Architecture Licensing advising, internship advising, and serving as liaison to professional organizations.

The Search Committee will look for expertise in areas such as:

• Urban design
• Building design
• Professional practice
• Project management
• Contemporary building practices such as adaptive reuse and green building

Successful candidates will demonstrate their promise of excellence in realizing Virginia Tech’s three‑fold mission of research, teaching, and outreach. The position will have responsibility for teaching students across all the programs while maintaining an emphasis in the urban design concentration. This position is a full‑time nine‑month appointment with an anticipated start date of August 2025.

Required qualifications

• Terminal degree in architecture by the appointment start date
• Professional licensure, accreditations, and substantive practice experience
• Proven ability in studio and seminar teaching
• Successful communication of rigorous research inquiry

Preferred qualifications

• A PhD in architecture or a related field
• Excellence in communication, collaboration, and cross‑cultural and/or cross‑disciplinary work
• Commitment to humane, socially‑engaged design

The review of applications will commence onJanuary 27, 2025.