Pro Tem Faculty (School of Architecture and Environment) - Open Pool - University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
About the Job
Department: DSGN School of Architecture & Environment (SAE)
Rank: Instructor
Annual Basis: 9 Month
Review of Applications Begins
Applications will be reviewed prior to each term start as needs arise
Special Instructions to Applicants
Please upload a letter of interest that outlines your area of expertise along with your professional resume/CV.
Department Summary
The School of Architecture and Environment provides accredited professional (leading to licensure or certification) and post-professional education for architects, historic preservationists, interior architects, and landscape architects through 13 degree programs and post-professional research-based degrees: Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture (track I & II), Master of Science in Architecture, Ph.D. in Sustainability, Bachelor of Interior Architecture, Master of Interior Architecture (track I & II), Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture, Minor in Historic Preservation, and Master of Science in Historic Preservation. The School has 47 permanent faculty, approximately 700 students, as well as an office staff. In addition, 50 – 60 pro tempore professors, 60 – 70 Graduate Employees/Research Fellows, and 8 – 10 student assistants are hired per year.
Architecture
The Architecture Department examines how the design of the physical environment can repair the natural environment, regenerate communities, and elevate the human spirit. Broad societal challenges are addressed through the lens of specific clients, locations, and ecosystems. Established in 1914, the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts was one of the first to break away from Beaux-Arts pedagogy to emphasize non-competitive, individualized education. Faculty are committed to creating a student-centered learning community that embraces multiple viewpoints. It is a department in which learning, research, and professional activity inform each other; in which new ideas and established traditions are in dialogue.
The department thrives on interdisciplinary academic partnerships in Eugene and engages in robust partnerships with professionals, government agencies, and non-profit organizations in Portland and around the globe. Department strengths include energy-efficient buildings, timber construction, housing design, and urbanism.
Historic Preservation
The School of Architecture & Environment's Historic Preservation program—the oldest such program on the West Coast—operates out of the University of Oregon’s Portland campus, where students can study the city’s rich physical and social heritage and participate in the dynamic planning processes that are shaping this center of urban sustainability. Students take classes in the White Stag Building, an award-winning adaptive reuse of several historic commercial buildings, and apply the skills they learn in real-world projects that help communities understand and protect their cultural resources and traditions.
Areas of expertise include an introduction to historic preservation, survey and inventory, national register nomination, preservation economics, land use ethics, adaptive use studio, building documentation, and analysis, cultural resource management/public policies in preservation, preservation technology, and American architectural history.
Interior Architecture
Interior architecture integrates critical analysis with creative thinking to revitalize, reuse, and adapt buildings to resonate with users and provide uplifting, healthy, and sustainable interior environments. The curriculum emphasizes design at all scales from large-scale adaptive reuse to furniture design and fabrication. Students and faculty collaborate closely with faculty in the Department of Architecture as they share required and elective coursework with professional programs in architecture. The Department of Interior Architecture offers fully-accredited professional degree programs in Architecture (BIarch and MIarch accredited by CIDA the Council for Interior Design Accreditation) as well as post-professional degrees: the Master of Science in Interior Architecture.
Landscape Architecture
The Department of Landscape Architecture is the oldest landscape architecture department on the West Coast. UO is the only university in Oregon that offers professionally accredited landscape architecture degrees, and one of only three universities in the nation to offer BLA, MLA, and PhD degrees. The curriculum emphasizes understanding landscapes across multiple scales and contexts to support innovative design, critical thinking, and real-world problem-solving. The department encourages engagement-based teaching, through cutting-edge initiatives such as the Urban Farm and the Fuller Center for Productive Landscapes, and partners with groups like UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative and the American Society of Landscape Architects to collaborate on projects that address pressing issues in actual landscapes with real stakeholders.
Position Summary
The School of Architecture and Environment (SAE) invites applicants for temporary, part-time, limited-duration teaching positions as Instructors or Professors of Practice in the Department of Architecture, the Historic Preservation Program, the Department of Interior Architecture, and the Department of Landscape Architecture. All positions hired from this pool will work primarily from the Eugene campus, though opportunities for some work on or in collaboration with the Portland campus are also possible.
Course types include:
• Design studios (furniture, architecture, adaptive re-use, landscape)
• Design communication (drawing, digital visualization, building information modeling, construction documents, building documentation & analysis, fabrication, and other representation skills)
• History and Theory (architectural history, historic preservation, land use ethics)
• Contextual (preservation economics, cultural resource management/public policies in preservation)
• Technical (building technology, historical survey, and inventory, national register nomination, preservation technology, planting design)
Connections to professional practice and emerging technology and ideas in the professions are highly desirable.
The School of Architecture and Environment is dedicated to building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We encourage applications from historically marginalized and currently underrepresented communities. Applicants are requested to include an explanation in their narrative statement of how they will further the University’s and the School of Architecture and Environment’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, perhaps in terms of how previous teaching, research, or professional work has engaged diverse communities.
Minimum Requirements
Instructor:
• Master’s degree (in exceptional circumstances, significant professional experience may substitute for an advanced degree).
Professor of Practice:
• Substantial basis of experience equal to a tenured professor (normally a minimum of 12 years).
• National/international reputation for excellence reflected in a record of significant accomplishments.
• Profile of accumulated professional accomplishments.
• Rich and extensive background in the field.
Preferred Qualifications
• One year of teaching (including assistantships) experience.
• Professional certification or licensure in the relevant field.
• Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant field.
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
The University of Oregon is proud to offer a robust benefits package to eligible employees, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. For more information about benefits, visit https://hr.uoregon.edu/about-benefits.
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