Assistant Professor in Structures, Artificial Intelligence, and Design

Assistant Professor in Structures, Artificial Intelligence, and Design

The University of Utah, an AA/EO employer, encourages applications from all qualified individuals, and provides reasonable accommodation to the known disabilities of applicants and employees. The University of Utah values candidates who have experience working in settings with students, staff, faculty and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education, employment opportunities, and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented groups.

Proposed Faculty Rank

Department 00159 - School of Architecture

City Salt Lake City, UT

Track New Position to Begin

New Position to Begin 07/01/2026

The School of Architecture (SoA) within the University of Utah’s College of Architecture + Planning invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in structures, artificial intelligence, and design. SoA is highly interested in candidates with expertise in contemporary technologies, such as innovative structural and construction systems, and who are interested in integrating artificial intelligence and interdisciplinary collaboration to advance innovative design and performance of buildings.

This position will be a full-time, nine-month appointment (1.0 FTE) to begin on July 1, 2026.

The School of Architecture has a long history of excellence in education, research, and societal impact with our original architecture degree program dating back over 75 years. As home of the only professionally-accredited architecture degree in the state, the school is known for leading transformative changes, most recently through an integrated curriculum, award-winning design-build programs, and sustained enrollment growth. The school aims to be a national leader in architectural education, research, and practice, in strong alignment with goals of the University of Utah.

The School of Architecture is committed to teaching the practices of creative critical thinking, community engagement, design excellence, design research, innovative building and structural systems, pedagogies, and practices in architecture, ecological resilience, global citizenship, leadership/collaboration, risk-taking/exploration, among others. The school aims to expand on these areas to emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.

The school anticipates the successful candidate will be part of these initiatives. The SoA offers a professionally accredited Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (BSAS), a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS), and a Master of Science in Architectural Studies (MSAS). The SoA is expanding its student enrollment, faculty portfolio, and resources, with a strong vision to sustain the growth.

The SoA began offering a new Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS) in Fall 2025. In the near future, the SoA will add a new Ph.D. program in Architecture to its portfolio of programs. In the last several years, a new integrated curriculum has been developed with a sequence of immersive design studios with integrated courses (technology, research, theory, design communication, etc.),

building up from bachelor’s to master’s to a capstone experience of a student-driven individual design project prepared and supported by architectural research.

Our work is interdisciplinary and integrated. We are known as champions of place-based engagement (including our signature Design

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UTAH program), social justice, and environmental stewardship. We convene critical conversations, host national conferences, foster community dialogues, publish the critical journal Dialectic, and serve as a test bed for ideas on the university campus. We are risk-takers and innovators, driven by our ethic of care, which underlies all that we do in our teaching, scholarship, and service. For more information, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate background in architectural design at the intersection of structures and artificial intelligence.…