University of Tennessee, College of Architecture and Design

2025 – 2027 Tennessee Architecture Fellowship

The Tennessee Architecture Fellowship fosters emerging design educators whose work shows extraordinary promise for the future of the discipline of architecture. Fellows are appointed at the rank of Lecturer and spend two academic years in the School of Architecture at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design in Knoxville, Tennessee. During this time, fellows teach design studios and seminars tailored to their expertise and pursue a critical self-driven design research or scholarship project supported by access to a research budget.  At the end of the second year, the research is shared with the College of Architecture and Design community through a lecture and an exhibit. The fellowship is awarded competitively on a bi-annual basis. Successful fellows are eligible, upon review of their teaching, research and creative practice, to be reappointed beyond the term of the fellowship, subject to staffing priorities.

The School of Architecture is one of four academic units in the College of Architecture and Design. Fellows in architecture are invited to collaborate with fellows within the School of Design, School of Landscape Architecture and the School of Interior Architecture.

We welcome diverse approaches and projects, but will give special consideration to applications that fit within one or both of the following themes:

Fabrication, Computation, and Technology

The College of Architecture and Design facilities include a 20,000 square-foot Fab Lab in downtown Knoxville. This facility boasts approximately one million dollars in state-of- the-art fabrication tools, CNC machines, AR/VR equipment, high-resolution digital scanners, and large-scale industrial robotic arms. These technologies allow students and faculty to explore computational design, digital fabrication, material research, and large-scale making characteristic of the East Tennessee region. Students and faculty are excited about this infrastructure and how it enables meaningful engagement with the discipline of architecture. We invite applicants capable of leveraging these emergent technologies to execute impactful research and design.

Society, Culture, and Contemporary Theory

This theme explores the epistemology of architectural knowledge and the contemporary framing of architectural ideas. Research in this area may involve deep engagement with the foundations of architectural discourse and/or engagement with arts and humanities disciplines, cultures, and bodies of work. We are especially interested in designers with intensive research and scholarship related to contemporary theory, social and environmental justice, and cities. A successful applicant will engage in making complex scholarly research accessible and operable to students in their design studios through speculative writing and narrative building.

Eligibility

Architects and designers from a range of allied design professions and disciplines interested in operating in an educational capacity and can demonstrate a significant engagement with architecture as a design medium are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply

Please submit the following application materials in the form of a single PDF (not larger than 25 MB): * Letter of Purpose * Current curriculum vitae * One-page proposal describing the design/research project to be undertaken * Ten-page digital portfolio of design/research work * Names and contact information for three references (to be contacted at the finalist stage) * Please title the PDF: LastnameFirstnameTNFellow.pdf * Submit the PDF by email attachment to archfell@utk.edu

Planned Timeline

  • January 15, 2025: Review of Applications Begin
  • February 2025: Phone Interviews with Intermediate shortlist
  • Early April 2025: Campus Interviews for Finalists
  • Late April 2025 or later: Announcement of 2020-21 Tennessee Architecture Fellow

For more information on the College of Architecture + Design see archdesign.utk.edu

For questions about the fellowship, please email archfell@utk.edu

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