The School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (APLA) at Auburn University seeks candidates for three (3) full-time Research Architect I-V positions in the Program of Architecture’s Rural Studio program. These are 12-month, non-faculty, limited-term positions. The Research Architect supports, contributes to, and increases the production output capacity of Rural Studio’s Front Porch Initiative as required by ongoing externally funded research grants and contracts. This research focuses on increasing equitable access and affordability of high-performance housing in overburdened and underserved markets.
About Rural Studio: Through three decades of hands-on, place-based teaching, research, and outreach, Rural Studio is regarded as a leading design-build program and advocate for sustainable rural living. As part of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University, the core mission of Rural Studio is the education of architecture students who design and build structures for residents and communities in the overburdened and underserved communities of West Alabama. The design-build projects are coupled with research on sustainable, healthful rural living through both housing and community systems.
About APLA: The School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (APLA) has over a century-long history of educating architects, interior architects, landscape architects and planners. The school contributes to the profession and to communities both locally and globally through creative work. APLA is comprised of four allied disciplines—Architecture, Interior Architecture, Environmental Design, and Landscape Architecture—and offers both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree options. APLA resides in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) along with the School of Industrial and Graphic Design and the McWhorter School of Building Science. APLA has a legacy of engaged public interest design work exemplified by the School’s two off-campus centers: Rural Studio (Newbern, Alabama) and Urban Studio (Birmingham, AL) as well as CADC’s Futures Studio (Mobile, AL) and the Center for Construction Innovation and Collaboration. Opportunities for collaboration within the School, College, and broader University abound.
About Auburn University: Auburn University is recognized by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as a top-level, or R1, university with “very high research activity.” Auburn University is ranked in the top 11% of U.S. research institutions, coming in at No. 100 among 915 universities, according to the National Science Foundation’s most recent Higher Education Research and Development, or HERD, Survey. For universities without a medical school, Auburn currently ranks No. 61 nationally.
Auburn University is also classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a “community engaged institution,” the highest such recognition for a university’s curricular engagement and outreach partnerships. As such, Auburn stands as an exemplar among its peer institutions as an interdisciplinary source for lifelong learning, information and expert assistance, and civic engagement for the public good.
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