Open faculty and fellowship positions

The Knowlton School at The Ohio State University is seeking applicants for two tenure-track positions in the Architecture Section, a tenure-track position in the Landscape Architecture Section, and for the Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship.

Two open faculty positions: Assistant Professors of Architecture
The Architecture Section of the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University welcomes applications for two tenure-track design faculty positions, starting autumn 2024. We seek candidates with design-based research agendas whose expertise will be a valuable addition to the Knowlton School’s dynamic faculty, fostering a rich culture of design, history and theory, and technology.

Selected candidates will have the opportunity to teach design studios at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as courses and seminars aligned with their research specializations. We seek to attract energetic, intellectually curious, creative colleagues with a clear research direction.

As our discipline and profession evolve in response to the shifting paradigms of our era—from planetary and climatic changes to urban reconfigurations and equitable redistribution of resources—the Knowlton School seeks faculty who can contribute to these conversations through creative approaches that reaffirm architecture's unwavering commitment to both social and environmental justice. Potential research and teaching themes may address, but are not limited to:

–architecture’s engagement with social and/or environmental challenges
–the interplay between architecture and urban dynamics
–innovations in building materials and their impacts on architecture
–other intersections that prompt innovation that we have not considered

We seek candidates who contribute to or expand on these discussions through their design research and teaching and who will display leadership and ability for collaboration in an academic environment. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with desire and ability to work constructively, decisively, and collegially with external and internal colleagues. We seek individuals with strong leadership skills who have the ability to work independently and proactively. Successful candidates will display innovative thinking, be open to sharing ideas, and be willing to learn continuously. Read more and apply.

Open faculty position: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
The Landscape Architecture program at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Located in one of the fastest-growing metropolitan regions in the US, the landscape architecture program pursues urban pasts, presents, and futures through highly engaged, design-centered, and future-oriented curricula and individual research trajectories. To join us in that pursuit, we seek a colleague working on urban environments and/or urban ecologies under the broad umbrella of race, justice, and the built environment. Preference will be given to those candidates whose work embraces the intersection of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning.

Founded in 1915, the Landscape Architecture Section at Knowlton is one of the oldest landscape architecture programs in the U.S. Our faculty is currently comprised of twelve full-time collegial and collaborative scholars dedicated to advancing the work, disciplinary questions, and practice of landscape architecture. We offer accredited degrees at both the graduate (master’s) and undergraduate level.  

Through our Race, Inclusion and Social Equity (RAISE) initiative, Ohio State is enhancing our world-class research programs on race, inclusion, and social equity. Over the next decade, the university will add at least 50 tenure-track faculty members to existing scholars whose research can help to narrow social disparities in educational attainment, health outcomes, rates of incarceration, political representation, environmental impacts, and economic well-being. Adding scholars in focused areas will enhance the university’s outstanding faculty and inform solutions to intractable issues.

This hire is part of a collaboration with the Department of History of Art under the same RAISE research cluster of “Race and the Built Environment: The Just City.” The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop a new, interdisciplinary General Education course with faculty in the History of Art department around the theme of “Citizenship for a Just and Sustainable World.” Read more and apply.

Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship  
The architecture section of the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University seeks candidates for the Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship. The annual fellowship offers the opportunity and resources for an emerging practitioner to pursue an advanced research project directed toward expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Past fellows have explored a broad range of topics relative to contemporary issues in the discipline and its cultural context. Since 2000, the LeFevre Fellowship has supported architects and designers with a range of research interests, including history, theory, contemporary culture, media, technology, material assembly, and advanced digital techniques. We seek candidates to continue the tradition of supporting innovative research centered on topics relevant to the continued evolution of disciplinary practice.

Situated within a major research university with state-of-the-art facilities, the Knowlton School provides a unique environment for innovative design research and critical inquiry. The Knowlton School enjoys the resources of the university and a metropolitan area of approximately two million people. This Fellowship offers the successful applicant a 9-month fellowship to investigate and develop a research project and to teach in the architecture program. The applicant awarded the Fellowship will be asked: (I) To teach design studios in which ideas related to their project are considered within the disciplinary context of architecture, and (II) To prepare and present a public exhibition. The Fellowship provides a salary for teaching, a paid Graduate Research Assistant, and a separate budget for research/project materials. Read more and apply.