Tenured/Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (Landscape Architecture)

Description

The Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning (LAUP) in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University invites applications for one full-time, tenure-track or tenured (Tenure Review Upon Hire) position with a 9-month academic appointment to begin in Fall of 2026. We will consider candidates for the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. The successful candidate will conduct original research in their specialty area(s), teach core and elective courses in our undergraduate and graduate programs in Landscape Architecture, mentor and advise PhD students, and provide service to the department, college, university, and community. We seek candidates whose research and teaching complement or strengthen our faculty's existing strengths. Faculty with interdisciplinary or design-focused backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates who can teach landscape construction, theory, history, design studios, planting design, and/or advanced digital communications. An ideal candidate will collaborate closely with faculty and students within LAUP’s Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. programs and may also teach across the disciplines found in the department.

The Landscape Architecture programs in LAUP include accredited Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in Landscape Architecture. The programs’ faculty members are composed of nationally and internationally recognized landscape architecture and interdisciplinary scholars. Each year, they contribute millions of dollars in funding to support students through a variety of research centers, laboratories, and institutes at the university. The missions of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture at Texas A&M University stress professional preparation for graduates. We offer a student-centered learning environment that fosters creativity and critical thinking, utilizing evidence-based design principles. This approach builds upon the knowledge of natural and built environments and how humans interact within various cultural settings. Our graduates use this knowledge to produce spatial solutions at multiple scales, from site design to land use planning. The programs provide a unique educational experience and emphasize issues dealing with resilience, disaster recovery, green infrastructure and technologies, health and well-being, natural resource management, and advanced visualization techniques. Through this, we strive to produce graduates motivated to be lifelong learners capable of working independently and leading interdisciplinary teams in the field of landscape architecture. These efforts are supplemented by the programs’ active and integrated Professional Advisory Board.

LAUP is one of the few in the country that is home to three disciplines— land and property development, urban planning, and landscape architecture—all of which are critical in the creation and delivery of healthy, efficient, resilient, and accessible places. Each program’s faculty members are composed of nationally and internationally recognized scholars. Each year, they contribute millions of dollars of funding to support students through a variety of research centers, laboratories, and institutes at the university.

LAUP includes 41 full-time faculty members and offers the following six degrees: the Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning, the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (accredited), the Master of Land & Property Development, the Master of Landscape Architecture (accredited), the Master of Urban Planning (accredited), and the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Sciences. We also offer several articulated and dual degrees. This combination of disciplines offers unparalleled opportunities for interdisciplinary research and teaching.

The Department has strong ties to the world-renowned Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the Center for Housing and Urban Development (including one of four HUD Centers of Excellence in Hispanic Housing Studies), Texas Target Communities (an award-winning outreach and engagement program), the Center for Health Systems & Design, the Center for Heritage Conservation, Texas Sea Grant, the Texas A&M Real Estate Center, and other centers and certificate programs in related fields within and beyond the College of Architecture. Support for sponsored research is excellent.

The College of Architecture at Texas A&M University is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. Over 130 faculty members in the departments of Architecture, LAUP, and Construction Science serve over 2,000 students in 15 degree progra