Professorship Landscape Architecture I Design

European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools; Indiana; On-site; USD 95,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Welcome Service

Dual Career Service

Job summary

University of Kassel invites a Professor (W3) in Landscape Architecture | Design to lead design education and research. The role emphasizes sustainable, future-oriented landscape architecture and open space development, with a focus on high-quality built work and public space design.

Teaching spans German and English in undergraduate and graduate programs. The successful candidate will join interdisciplinary collaboration across Architecture, Urban Planning and the Department 06 ASL, and

Qualifications

• Degree in landscape architecture or comparable program.
• Demonstrated excellence in design via built project of high quality.
• Significant publications or research contributions to the discourse on landscape architecture.
• Innovative design approaches with sustainability and aesthetics.
• Ability to teach in German and English.
• Strong international collaborations in academia and practice.

Responsibilities

• Teach courses in Landscape Architecture | Design in German and English.
• Develop and lead research and teaching in design topics.
• Supervise final theses and projects in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Urban Planning across institutes.
• Contribute to academic self-administration and department activities.

Skills

Design excellence

Academic collaboration

Multilingual teaching

Sustainability focus

Public open space design

Education

Degree in landscape architecture

Job description

The Faculty 06, Architecture Urban Planning Landscape Planning at Kassel University, is offering a position of a W3 professorship in ‘Landscape Architecture | Design’ (m/f/d) at the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning from 1. April 2028.

Application deadline:06.08.2026

Date of hire: 01.04.2028

Vacancy number:39304

The professorship is dedicated to the teaching and development of design in landscape architecture. This includes design as well as spatial, functional and procedural dimensions. The future post holder will represent the subject ‘Landscape Architecture | Design’ comprehensively in research and teaching in the sense of sustainable and future-oriented landscape architecture and open space development.

We are looking for a personality who will fulfil the diverse requirements of the position in the context of the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at the interdisciplinary Department of Architecture Urban Planning Landscape Planning. The candidate will have excellent, conceptually strong achievements in the design of public open spaces and an independent, built landscape architectural work with high visibility in the professional discourse. This profile integrates aspects of sustainability with the resulting aesthetics and contributes to the innovation and future viability of the discipline. In its research, the professorship develops innovative design approaches and reflects on design practices and current trends in landscape architecture.

Within the framework of teaching, the professorship imparts methods, content and tools of design, as well as the diverse aspects of landscape architecture in the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes. In the six-semester Bachelor’s degree programme in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning, the fundamental breadth of landscape architectural design is to be conveyed as foundational knowledge. In the four-semester research-oriented Master’s programme, the Chair offers teaching formats, final theses and qualification projects. Teaching in the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes is conducted in German. Candidates are expected to be willing to contribute to the development of an English-language teaching programme.

In research and teaching, the Chair forms a strategic link to the disciplines of Architecture and Urban Planning, thereby representing a cornerstone in the diverse connections between the subjects and in the interdisciplinary ethos of Department 06 ASL (Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning). Committed participation in academic self-administration is considered a matter of course.

Requirements

• A degree in landscape architecture or a comparable course of study with a demonstrable focus on landscape architecture.
• Outstanding achievements in design, demonstrated by an independent, built landscape architecture project of high design quality.
• Outstanding research or practice-oriented contributions to the academic discourse on landscape architecture, which have led to significant advances in design research, as evidenced by relevant academic publications.
• Innovative design approaches and critical reflection on design methods, particularly regarding aspects of sustainability and the resulting aesthetics.
• Excellent connectivity, e.g. demonstrated through international collaborations in academia and practice.Relevant academic teaching experience and expertise in university pedagogy.
• Willingness to teach courses in both German and English.

Advantages

• international practical experience,
• experience in design incorporating aspects of biodiversity, circularity or climate adaptation,
• experience in securing and implementing externally funded projects,

Application Documents

• List of works (including details of authorship, your own involvement, implementation, etc.) with portfolio
• List of competition successes, other prizes and awards
• List of publications, lectures and exhibition contributions
• List of current and previously completed research projects (including funding amounts)Teaching portfolio (teaching philosophy, overview of previous courses, results of teaching evaluations)
• Concept for future research and teaching priorities within the department (summary of 1–2 pages each)

Recruitment requirements and performance requirements

• 67, 68 of the Hessian Higher Education Act apply, in particular a completed academic degree, the necessary aptitude for academic work and pedagogical aptitude.

For further information please contact Prof. Florian Otto, Tel.: [phone], otto(at)asl.uni-kassel.deIn the event of any differences between the German and English versions of this call for application, the German wording is legally binding.

The University of Kassel is very interested in the professional satisfaction of its employees.

It is distinguished as a family-friendly university and, in the interests of equal opportunities, strives to offer everyone the same opportunities for development and to counteract existing disadvantages.

• Family Welcome Service
• Dual Career Service

One of the strategic goals of the University of Kassel is to significantly increase the proportion of women in research and teaching.

Applications from women are therefore particularly welcome.

Seriously handicapped and equivalent applicants are given preference if they have the same suitability, qualifications and professional performance.