Architectural Fellowship

Bard College Architecture invites applications for its 2024–26 Architectural Fellowship. This two-year fellowship is awarded biennially to an emerging architect, urban designer, landscape architect or other spatial practitioner whose creative work and research advances new cultures of design that address a larger public. The fellowship is intended to support those embarking on a career in research and design pedagogy and to provide a context in which to develop new modes of thought relevant to the urgencies of the present.

We are interested in candidates whose distinct research and practice attends to societal concerns and modes of spatial justice. Underwriting this ambition, Architecture at Bard is strongly committed to recruiting and supporting historically underrepresented voices, agendas and experiences that continue to be systematically underrepresented in both academia and architecture.

The selected fellow will have the opportunity to teach a total of three courses each academic year taught through the lens of their research. The fellow will be expected to develop courses that contribute to the core curriculum and to propose original courses tied directly to their own creative work and research, thus inviting students into the process as collaborators. The culmination of the Fellowship will result in a public presentation of research work conducted during the Fellowship in the form of an exhibition, an event, or otherwise.

The fellow will receive institutional support in the form of mentorship, an annual research stipend, as well as dedicated production funds to support the final public presentation. The fellow is expected to fully engage in the academic and cultural life of the college during the two academic years in residence.

Architecture at Bard is a new program at the college, launched in the fall of 2020. Structured around an innovative curriculum, the program looks to critically re-situate architecture as a site for insurgent socio-spatial imaginaries and as a tool for building alliances that seek more just, liberating futures. As a non-professional degree program, Architecture at Bard privileges a forward-thinking pedagogy that aims to equip students with an expansive and experimental approach toward the field that simultaneously opens paths for engaging other disciplines spatially.

Bard College is a private institution working in the public interest. Bard faculty and staff lead their students by example, building upon the existing network of boundary-breaking programs focused on rethinking who can and should benefit from a liberal arts education. The successful candidate will excel at working in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.

To apply interested candidates can follow this link for application requirements. Please submit your application by November 20, 2023 to ensure full consideration. Review of applications will begin on that date and continue until the position is filled.  For questions, please contact Betsy Clifton at bclifton [​at​] bard.edu.