Visiting Assistant Professor, Architecture, School of Architecture and Design

Job Description

Job Description Summary

The School of Architecture & Design (SoAD) is currently seeking a full-time visiting assistant professor in architecture for the 2025-2026 academic year to teach in-person courses within its BS Architecture and MArch programs on campus in Boston.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate for this position will have a passion for teaching and research in adaptive reuse and/or historic preservation, as well as the ability to teach foundation level courses including architectural studios and representation courses.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with colleagues to develop and deliver integrated, interdisciplinary coursework.

• Advising and mentoring students.

About Wentworth and the School of Architecture and Design (SoAD)

Wentworth Institute of Technology, located in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, is a dynamic university with a focus on experiential learning and academic excellence. The university comprises five schools: Architecture and Design, Computing and Data Science, Engineering, Management, and Sciences and Humanities. Wentworth is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium, providing opportunities for collaboration and resource sharing with nearby institutions such as Massachusetts College of Art and Simmons University.

Wentworth is a university with a teaching focus and strategic initiatives of high-value learning, inclusive excellence, transformational student experience, and next-generation partnerships. The school has a strong commitment to recruiting and retaining students with diverse backgrounds, fostering a vibrant design community and learning environment for faculty and students, and building on and expanding current government, community, industry, and alumni partnerships.

Wentworth’s School of Architecture and Design (SoAD) offers highly respected Bachelor of Sciences degrees in Industrial Design (NASAD accredited), Interior Design (CIDA accredited), Architecture, Master of Architecture (NAAB accredited), and Building Sciences.

The mission of the SoAD is to empower design students and educators from all backgrounds to become creative, civic-minded problem-solvers, responding to global challenges and contributing to local communities. The SoAD guides students to engage locally and globally, explore advanced technologies, collaborate within and across disciplines, gain industry experience via cooperative education, and learn to design sustainably and equitably. Comprising approximately 810 undergraduate and 90 graduate students, the SoAD has robust international study opportunities at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

About the Architecture Programs:

The School of Architecture & Design offers three programs, BS Architecture, BS Building Sciences, and the professional, NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture. With approximately 670 students, the architecture programs are centered around the design studio, where students work closely with faculty in their explorations of architectural design across a broad range of scales. Our project-based curriculum prepares students for a range of practices. Our graduates are versant in conventional and speculative design practices, material practices, participatory social practices, and practices in scholarship and pedagogy, among many others. Students and faculty in the program are not afraid to experiment, learn from success and failure, and keep pushing forward.

Students complete two mandatory co-ops, bridging the gap between academia and industry, reinforcing coursework, and gaining valuable professional experience.

To learn more about the Architecture programs and the School of Architecture & Design, please visit the website.

Application Requirements:

Applicants must submit the following in a single PDF document:

1) Cover letter that describes areas of expertise and qualifications for the position (1-2 pages)

2) Current curriculum vitae

3) Portfolio showcasing professional and/or teaching work, including design projects and student outcomes (if applicable).

4) Teaching philosophy and plans for teaching and scholarship (1 page).

5) Contact information for three professional references (references will only be contacted after notifying the candidate).

Minimum education required:

• Master of Architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree in architecture, environmental design or related field

• Prior university level teaching in architecture

• Licensed architect

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