Full Professor in Architectural Research and Design; fulltime TU​/E

Position: Full Professor in Architectural Research and Design (fulltime) TU/E
The Department of the Built Environment advances our knowledge of the built environment through its education, research and impact. It addresses urgent societal challenges on a systemic level by combining a unique, broad, and inspiring range of design, technology, and engineering disciplines. With over 250 talented scholars 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, where scientific curiosity is explored and materialized in providing comprehensive answers to some of the most pressing societal transitions.

AUDE

The unit AUDE integrates (urban) architecture with engineering principles to address complex spatial challenges, focusing on creating high-quality built environments. With a commitment to both historical and theoretical discourse as well as the contemporary practice of (urban) architecture, AUDE approaches the built environment from a combined perspective where thinking and doing are mutually reinforcing. Such 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.

Currently, the unit AUDE consists of five chair groups:

The Chair of Architectural History and Theory (AHT) examines design artifacts, designs, and design practices within specified cultural and societal contexts. Research areas include architectural history, heritage studies, architectural theory, philosophy of design, and architectural criticism.

The Chair of Architectural Design and Engineering (ADE) focuses on the essence of the architectural profession: creating good buildings. This chair operates under the assumption that good architecture results from the harmonious fusion of architectural design and technical expertise. Key research areas include sustainable concepts, evolving typologies, new building technologies, and exploring materiality’s role in architectural design.

The Chair of Smart Architectural Technologies (SAT) concentrates on integrating innovative technologies into the built environment to create responsive buildings. Specifically, the chair emphasizes the balance between architecture, technology, and users, encapsulated in the concept of the ‘Empathic Environment’.

The Chair of Rational Architecture (RA) analyzes and critiques the typology and morphology of existing cities at both the urban and building scales.

The Chair of Architecture and (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). on the transformation of the architect’s role, existing building stock, and the design, construction, and production processes of buildings and cities.

The Chairs of AHT, ADE and SAT are currently occupied and remain as they are. The Chairs RA and AT are currently free and are being reconsidered: they can remain as they are but may also be subject to change. Urban Design is covered in the unit USRE.

Job requirements

You have an exceptional talent to elevate AUDE’s architecture research and education to the highest level.

You will develop a curiosity-driven research agenda related to (spatial) design (research based and design oriented) that is both grounded in the fundamental side of architecture as well as in the contemporary discourse and practice of architecture.

Your research engages with broader societal challenges already being addressed by other units within the department (from housing to the transformation of existing buildings and from energy transition and climate change to sustainability and circularity).

Beyond having a clear line of inquiry that contributes to the…