| Position | Penn State University - Tenure-Track Position: Urban Landscapes |
| Member School | Pennsylvania State University |
| Date Posted | 1 Oct 2008 |
| Salary | undisclosed |
TENURE-TRACK POSITION: URBAN LANDSCAPES
Department of Landscape Architecture School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Penn State University
This tenure track position, focusing on the core of our design curriculum, is available beginning in January or August of 2009.
We are seeking a designer who exhibits enthusiasm, experience, and skill in teaching urban landscape design. The successful applicant will contribute to teaching in design studio and design implementation and will have a continuing commitment to scholarly work addressing the urban landscape. Special consideration will be given to those who demonstrate a record of completed works that exemplify excellence in design and execution. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
Candidates for this position should be leaders, fully committed to collaboration and interdisciplinary cooperation. Our faculty possesses considerable breadth of expertise and unanimous commitment to teaching, research and outreach. We typically teach studio as well as supporting courses. Many of our classes are team-taught and frequently engage students and faculty from other disciplines. Faculty conduct and publish advanced research which may include creative practice and externally-funded scholarship, and are involved in service to the University, department and community.
We encourage applications from those interested in actively engaging environmentally and economically disadvantaged communities and those who can demonstrate experience working with students and colleagues in a multicultural setting. The required qualifications are a terminal degree in Landscape Architecture or a related discipline and demonstrated interest in teaching.
Landscape Architecture at Penn State (http://www.larch.psu.edu) includes a nationally-ranked 220 student, 5-year professional undergraduate program, a post-professional graduate program and a 3-year professional MLA in development. The 20-member faculty encompasses the widest range of professional expertise. Our home, the Stuckeman Family Building, opened in 2005. With other units we offer an exciting array of centers for scholarship and outreach: the Hamer Center for Community Design; the Center for Watershed Stewardship; the Historic Places Initiative; and the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing. The department requires all undergraduates to undertake study abroad. For many this is through our Sede di Roma campus in Italy.
A recent gift establishing the H. Campbell and Eleanor Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will bring enormous change to the school, significantly increasing faculty resources, support for collaborative work, and a strengthened focus in design computing.
Penn State was established in 1855 and is one of the most respected research institutions in the nation. Beside the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), the other units in the College of Arts and Architecture include the Department of Art History, the Department of Integrative Arts, the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Arts.
University Park/State College is located in central Pennsylvania, comprising approximately 75,000 inhabitants (including 44,000 students). This delightful small city is set in a rural valley of richly beautiful farmland amidst wooded mountains; yet Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York can each be reached in a four-hour drive or less.
Send, preferably in electronic format, a letter of application; a statement of teaching interests, creative, scholarly and research achievements; resume; a portfolio of scholarly and creative works, and names of 3 references to: Stuart Echols, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture Search Committee; 121 Stuckeman Family Building; University Park, PA 16802. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2008 and will continue until suitable candidates are found. For further information contact Jenna Williams via 814-865-9511, jmw5102@psu.edu, or http://www.larch.psu.edu. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
Stuckeman gives $20 million to architecture and landscape architecture Thursday, September 4, 2008, University Park, PA
H. Campbell "Cal" Stuckeman, of Pittsburgh, graduated from the University in 1937 with a bachelor's degree in architecture. Pursuing a longtime quest to foster academic collaboration in the education of architects and landscape architects, he has committed $20 million to encourage even more cross-disciplinary learning opportunities for students in the two programs.
The gift to name the H. Campbell and Eleanor Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will create endowments to support three broad purposes: • Create chairs and professorships for faculty and visiting professionals who have a strong combination of design expertise, a record of collaborating with other disciplines, and a passion for teaching; • Create new or enhance existing interdisciplinary and international teaching and research initiatives; • Strengthen the Stuckeman Endowment for Design Computing so that the architecture and landscape architecture curricula remain leaders among their peer institutions.
While the gift is phased, the benefits begin to flow almost immediately. Five years from now the school and its programs will be transformed.
The Stuckemans' philanthropy to Penn State began with a modest donation to the annual fund in 1953. They now rank among the five most generous donors to the University. They provided the lead gift to support construction of what is today the Stuckeman Family Building, opened in 2005, which created the finest teaching spaces in the nation for the architecture and landscape architecture departments, and brought them in physical proximity to the other academic components of the College of Arts and Architecture. The Stuckemans also provided major funding for a center that integrates design computing with the traditional design studio, while providing state-of-the-art hardware and software for architecture and landscape architecture students.
Visit http://www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu/aunits/sala.html to learn more about the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Stuckeman Family Building.