Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Employer Type: University

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Type: Professor

Harvard’s Department of Landscape Architecture seeking a full professor

Responsibilities

Harvard’s Department of Landscape Architecture is actively seeking highly qualified individuals for the position of full professor, offering graduate-level instruction and conducting advanced research with an emphasis on design.

The preferred candidate should have established a distinguished international reputation for their work in the discipline and/or profession of landscape architecture. They should have experience teaching at the graduate level, and are expected to teach in design studios, lectures, seminars, and/or workshops in the context of an interdisciplinary design school with collaborative faculties in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering, and design studies. Applicants should be prepared to advise thesis students and doctoral students. All full professors at the GSD are active participants in the collective project of the school itself, which might include program and departmental leadership roles.

Qualifications

We seek candidates who are committed to advancing environmental and social justice in the contemporary city. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in landscape architecture and its intersection with urban design and contemporary public realm design—including, for example, innovative infrastructure design, climate change, human health and design, engagement with underserved communities, urban recreational landscapes, waste sites, and post-industrial landscapes—at all scales of human and non-human interactions. Candidates should see their work as expanding disciplinary boundaries and working across scales, embracing the multiple forces that contribute to the conceptualization of urban landscapes and their public dimensions. We are interested in candidates who have developed a research trajectory in public realm landscapes or with a history of consequential professional practice that ties to a design research agenda.

The Department of Landscape Architecture educates landscape architects as committed protagonists in the urgent global demand to design a more equitable distribution of ecological, environmental, spatial, and economic resources. Candidates should regard this position as a robust platform for cultural discourse, community engagement, and disciplinary leadership in the advancement of improved landscape futures across all regions of the world.

Applicants are required to hold a master-level degree in landscape architecture or equivalent, or in a closely related field. A doctoral degree is considered an enhancement. The school seeks to attract and retain individuals who possess a quality of mind demonstrating high levels of independent thought, clarity of expression, analytical ability, critical judgment, imagination, creativity, initiative, and industry, and a quality that enables individuals to support free inquiry and expression by others and to interact in constructive, collegial, congenial collaboration with faculty, staff, and students. Creative contributions to the field through scholarship and/or design are essential to effective teaching over time. Continued study and inquiry with public exposition of research and professional accomplishments are normal obligations of faculty at Harvard.

The position of professor is intended for individuals pursuing full-time academic careers who are highly effective teachers and whose creative work in scholarship, design research/work, or professional practice, or a combination thereof, is recognized by peers as a preeminent and enduring intellectual contribution to their field. Individuals in this position will employ their time teaching, conducting creative work in scholarship or design research, and fulfilling their responsibilities for academic service including academic administration. Appointments are made with tenure on a full-time basis with a requirement for residency in Greater Boston.

The faculty search committee will review applications on a rolling basis starting in June.