Professor, Architecture

Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SCAD in Savannah, GA seeks an architecture professor to prepare students for evolving careers by merging design thinking with technology, sustainability, and professional practice. You will mentor and coach students, contribute to curriculum development, and engage with interdisciplinary teams to connect contemporary practice with classroom content.

The successful candidate will lead teaching activities, assess programs, uphold academic standards, and participate in institutional effectiveness

Qualifications

• Terminal degree in architecture or a related field.
• Academic and professional credentials to teach in architecture.
• Two years of related work experience or post-secondary teaching experience with demonstrated architectural design ability.
• Experience engaging contemporary architectural technologies, methods, or modes of practice.
• Ability to translate professional expertise into architectural education.

Responsibilities

• Plan and prepare for teaching and maintain an active classroom.
• Conduct course- and program-level assessments and model professionalism.
• Fulfill grading and academic documentation requirements and record attendance.
• Follow academic policies and support institutional effectiveness efforts.
• Mentor students on design, technical, and professional questions; provide extra help sessions.
• Attend on-ground and virtual events, including faculty councils and exhibitions.

Skills

Architectural design judgment

Connect knowledge to broader thinking

Emerging technologies

Artificial intelligence

Sustainability

Construction

Building systems

Digital fabrication

Interdisciplinary practice

Conceptual to technical fluency

Education

Terminal degree in architecture

Credentials to teach in architecture

Post-secondary teaching experience (architecture)

Job description

As an architecture professor, you'll prepare students for evolving careers in a highly creative, rapidly changing profession. As part of a team of accomplished professors, you’ll teach students to integrate architectural design thinking with technology, professional practice, and emerging approaches, while engaging with the environmental, social, technical, and cultural forces that shape the built environment. At SCAD, you’ll contribute to a growing architecture program through teaching, mentorship, curriculum development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and ongoing engagement with the evolving nature of architectural practice.

Throughout each quarter, you’ll encourage interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration across related creative and technical fields. You’ll also mentor students on design, technical, and professional questions, emphasizing integration and critical thinking, and connect contemporary architectural practice and emerging technologies to course content.

To support the university’s mission of preparing talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment, you’ll:

• Conduct course- and program-level assessments
• Model professionalism
• Fulfill grading and academic documentation requirements
• Record attendance
• Follow academic policies and regulations and support academic assessment and institutional effectiveness efforts

As a professor, you’ll:

• Plan and prepare for teaching
• Maintain an active and engaged classroom environment
• Facilitate syllabus design, submission, and approval
• Hold office hours and midterm grade reviews to provide feedback to students
• Provide students with extra help sessions, extended learning opportunities, and field trips

Additionally, you’ll attend on-ground and virtual events including:

• Faculty councils
• Admission events
• Curriculum assessment and development
• Institutional effectiveness and accreditation support
• Exhibitions or other publicity assignments

Ideal candidates will demonstrate:

• Strong architectural design judgment
• An ability to connect knowledge to broader architectural thinking and to student learning
• Professional experience in emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, sustainability, construction, building systems, computation, fabrication, digital workflows, or interdisciplinary practice
• An ability to move fluidly between conceptual thinking and the technical realities of architectural practice

Minimum qualifications:

• Terminal degree in architecture or a relevant field
• Academic and professional credentials to teach in architecture
• Two years of work experience in a related profession or post-secondary teaching experience and demonstrated architectural design ability and professional experience
• Post-secondary teaching experience or demonstrated ability to translate professional expertise into architectural education
• Experience engaging contemporary architectural technologies, methods, or modes of practice

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous university-level teaching experience in architecture
• Professional experience across multiple phases of architectural design and project delivery
• Evidence of continued creative, professional, scholarly, or applied research activity
• Ability to translate professional expertise into an active and engaging studio environment

Certificates, licenses, and registrations:

Professional architectural licensure or comparable credentials

Travel required:

• Less than 10%

Required application documents:

• Current résumé and/or CV
• Cover letter
• Portfolio or its equivalent
• Unofficial academic transcripts

Work hours: As noted in the Employment Agreement.

ADA tag: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and minimum qualifications listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and/or meet the minimum qualifications.