The Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is seeking two Full Professors/Chairs of Architectural Research and Design in the Architecture, Urban Design and Engineering (AUDE) unit (1.0 FTE).
As candidates are expected to be appointable at Full Professor level, we do also welcome applicants currently at associate professor (or equivalent) level, who bring a robust research track record, clarity of research focus, and teaching experience appropriate to promotion to full professor as part of the recruitment process.
InformationThe successful candidate will manage a Research Chair, be actively engaged in research, will supervise PhD’s and will be responsible for delivering studio education at both the BA and MA level, as well as core lecture courses and seminars appropriate to the Chair’s focus. The Chair is expected to bring in research funding and attract PhD’s.
We are especially interested in candidates with a research focus on one of the following fields:
- Housing
- Circular and bio-based design
- Climate resilient design
- Typologies and design methodology
- Computational design and the future of practice
We are looking for colleagues with rich knowledge and experience in research and design , whose approach pushes the boundaries of architectural knowledge and practice towards the pressing challenges of the present. We are looking for a colleague whose approaches complement and expand AUDE’s existing Research Chairs (see below).
AUDEThe unit AUDE consists of Research Chairs, each led by a Full Professor, of which currently two positions are open. AUDE integrates architecture with engineering to address complex spatial challenges, focusing on creating resilient built environments and on the transformative potential of design.
With a commitment to both historical and theoretical discourse as well as the contemporary practice of architecture, AUDE approaches the built environment from a combined perspective where thinking and doing are mutually reinforcing. This position is made explicit in both education and research.
Ultimately, AUDE stands for critical and innovative attitudes toward social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental issues, leveraging scholarship, design and technology to propose inventive solutions for the pressing issues in our built environment, today and into the future.
The three active Research Chairs are:
- AHT: the Chair of Architectural History and Theory (AHT) supports three research streams: History and Decarbonization, Climate and Heritage, and the Curatorial Research Collective. Through research, teaching, and other collaborative activities the chair examines how critical analysis of the built environment supports disciplinary and social transformation. Chairholder: Prof. Daniel A. Barber
- ADE: the Chair of Architectural Design and Engineering (ADE) focuses on the essence of the architectural profession: the harmonious fusion of architectural design and technical expertise. Key research areas include sustainability and circularity in architectural design, transformations, emerging building technologies, and exploring materiality's role in architectural design. Chairholder: Prof. Juliette Bekkering, part-time Prof. Jacob van Rijs
- SAT: the Chair of Smart Architectural Technologies (SAT) investigates how emerging technologies transform the way we design, inhabit, and care for the Built Environment. Focusing on housing futures and everyday living environments, SAT develops theoretical frameworks and real-life prototypes for Empathic Environments, adaptive and inclusive settings that respond to both human and environmental needs. Through this approach, the chair bridges technological innovation with social relevance, advancing architecture as an interdisciplinary design science. Chairholder: Prof. Masi Mohammadi, part-time Prof. Tom. Frantzen.
The new professors will be expected to develop a new Research Chair, and to expand the impact of their unique research in dialogue and collaboration with the other chairs in AUDE as well as other units in BE and TU/e.
Research Chairs are also engaged in education, teaching across the curriculum from required lecture courses to studios, and in working collectively on the changing demands of architectural education.
In addition to these three Research Chairs, clusters of teaching faculty in AUDE provide education at the Bachelor and Master level, with a focus on type, form and design method; media and making; strategies of reuse and transformation; and urbanism.
Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology The Department of the Built Environment advances knowledge of the built environment through education, research and impact. We address urgent societal challenges on a systemic level by combining a unique, broad, and inspiring range of design, technology, and engineering disciplines. With over 330 talented staff members and PHD’s and approximately 1500 students from various nationalities, the department is organized across four disciplinary units:
- Architecture, Urban Design and Engineering (AUDE);
- Urban Systems and Real Estate (USRE);
- Structural Engineering and Design (SED);
- Building Physics and Services (BPS).
While each unit has its own specific in-depth disciplinary focus, they work closely together in the department’s education programs and research projects. The department is equipped with several state-of-the-art facilities, from laboratories to robotic facilities and workshops. Here scientific curiosity is explored and materialized in providing comprehensive answers to some of the most pressing societal transitions.