Assistant or Associate, Architectural Design

The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architecture department invites applicants for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence fall 2025. Rank will be dependent on professional status and teaching experience.

The department seeks qualified individuals with primary responsibility for teaching undergraduate and graduate-level introductory and advanced architecture design courses in studio, seminar, and workshop settings. This is a design-plus position; successful candidates will teach and coordinate core curriculum in addition to teaching foundational and advanced courses in their area of expertise.

As an architectural program rooted in a studio culture of making and drawing, the department seeks candidates with a university-level teaching experience, and a demonstrated record of developing and advancing core curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels in this vein. The position is well suited to applicants with a strong interest in and experience with architectural pedagogy. We seek applicants who value the teaching and learning of architecture which embraces reiterative and media rich processes, is propelled by materiality, drawing, modeling as well as experimentation and fabrication. Successful applicants will have a strong record of scholarly contributions and/or exhibitions/installations of speculative and/or professionally realized architectural work.

RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution’s social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college graduates.