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Tenured/Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (Landscape Architecture) Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Location College Station, Texas

Open Date 10/6/2025

Position ID 169298

Description

The Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning (LAUP) in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University invites applications for one full-time, tenure-track or tenured (Tenure Review Upon Hire) position with a 9-month academic appointment to begin in Fall of 2026. We will consider candidates for the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. The successful candidate will conduct original research in their specialty area(s), teach core and elective courses in our undergraduate and graduate programs in Landscape Architecture, mentor and advise PhD students, and provide service to the department, college, university, and community. We seek candidates whose research and teaching complement or strengthen our faculty's existing strengths. Faculty with interdisciplinary or design-focused backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates who can teach landscape construction, theory, history, design studios, planting design, and/or advanced digital communications. An ideal candidate will collaborate closely with faculty and students within LAUP’s Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. programs and may also teach across the disciplines found in the department.

The Landscape Architecture programs in LAUP include accredited Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in Landscape Architecture. The programs’ faculty members are composed of nationally and internationally recognized landscape architecture and interdisciplinary scholars. Each year, they contribute millions of dollars in funding to support students through a variety of research centers, laboratories, and institutes at the university. The missions of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture at Texas A&M University stress professional preparation for graduates. We offer a student-centered learning environment that fosters creativity and critical thinking, utilizing evidence-based design principles. This approach builds upon the knowledge of natural and built environments and how humans interact within various cultural settings. Our graduates use this knowledge to produce spatial solutions at multiple scales, from site design to land use planning. The programs provide a unique educational experience and emphasize issues dealing with resilience, disaster recovery, green infrastructure and technologies, health and well-being, natural resource management, and advanced visualization techniques. Through this, we strive to produce graduates motivated to be lifelong learners capable of working independently and leading interdisciplinary teams in the field of landscape architecture. These efforts are supplemented by the programs’ active and integrated Professional Advisory Board (https://www.arch.tamu.edu/impact/advisory-councils/landscape-architecture-professional-advisory-board-land-pab/) .

LAUP is one of the few in the country that is home to three disciplines— land and property development, urban planning, and landscape architecture—all of which are critical in the creation and delivery of healthy, efficient, resilient, and accessible places. Each program’s faculty members are composed of nationally and internationally recognized scholars. Each year, they contribute millions of dollars of funding to support students through a variety of research centers, laboratories, and institutes at the university.

LAUP includes 41 full-time faculty members and offers the following six degrees: the Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning, the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (accredited), the Master of Land & Property Development, the Master of Landscape Architecture (accredited), the Master of Urban Planning (accredited), and the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Sciences. We also offer several articulated and dual degrees. This combination of disciplines offers unparalleled opportunities for interdisciplinary research and teaching.

The Department has strong ties to the world-renowned Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the Center for Housing and Urban Development (including one of four HUD Centers of Excellence in Hispanic Housing Studies), Texas Target Communities (an award-winning outreach and engagement program), the Center for Health Systems & Design, the Center for Heritage Conservation, Texas Sea Grant, the Texas A&M Real Estate Center, and other centers and certificate programs in related fields within and beyond the College of Architecture. Support for sponsored research is excellent.

The College of Architecture at Texas A&M University is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. Over 130 faculty members in the departments of Architecture, LAUP, and Construction Science serve over 2,000 students in 15 degree programs. These cover the entire spectrum of disciplines having to do with the built environment.

Texas A&M University, the second-largest university in the United States by in-person enrollment, is home to approximately 60,000 undergraduate students and nearly 17,000 graduate students. As both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution, more than 6,000 students come from 50+ countries other than the United States. Texas A&M University is a land-, space-, and sea-grant institution; one of only 24 institutions in the nation to hold this triple designation. It has the largest and most active network of former students in the world.

Over 300,000 in population, Bryan/College Station offers a high quality of life at a relatively low cost of living. The Bryan/College Station area is located in the center of the Texas Urban Triangle—home to more than 13 million people across four metropolitan areas (all within easy driving distance): Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, all of which rank among the top twelve cities in the nation by population. The current challenges Texas faces—related to climate change, natural hazards, transportation, demographic composition, and economic change—foreshadow the changes that the rest of the nation will experience over the next 30 years, making it a perfect laboratory for testing hypotheses related to urban and land development and management.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

+ At a minimum, the successful candidate must have master's degree in landscape architecture or a closely related field.

+ The candidate must be qualified to teach core and elective courses in the Landscape Architecture curriculum.

Perferred Qualifications

+ Candidates with professional experience, licensure, a Ph.D. in landscape architecture or allied discipline, and/or professional registration/designation will be highly valued.

Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application Instructions

Applications will only be accepted at apply.interfolio.com/173842. Applicants must submit: 1) Cover Letter, 2) Curriculum Vitae, 3) Personal Statement (5-page maximum) to include your philosophy and plans for teaching, research and service, 4) A list of three references (academic or professional) with names and contact information (email address), and 5) Portfolio of Creative Work to include samples of professional and/or creative work and any teaching work if applicable (up to 25 MB).

Review of applications will begin October 31, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. The appointment will commence in the Fall semester of 2026.

Questions should be directed to the search committee co-chairs, Bruce Dvorak ([email protected]) or Sungmin Lee ([email protected]). Questions about the application process should be directed to Ms. Thena G. Morris ([email protected]).