Visiting Associate Professor

Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) seeks a visiting faculty member to assume delivery of graduate courses and PhD advising for Fall 2024 semester.

The compact urban campus of WAAC is embedded in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in Virginia, just across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital. The WAAC is part of a growing Virginia Tech presence in Alexandria, near the new Innovation Campus with graduate education to support the dynamic Northern Virginia technology sector including Amazon’s new east coast headquarters. The WAAC is an integral part of the School of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design based in the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. As the urban campus of the School of Architecture, the WAAC offers stand-alone degrees in Master of Architecture (2-year professional), Urban Design (MSci Arch), and PhD in Architecture and Design Research, as well as educating upper-level Bachelor of Architecture (5-year professional) students from the main Blacksburg campus and visiting students from around the country and the world.

The position's primary teaching responsibility would include ARCH5134 topics (3cr); ARCH5715 Architecture and Urbanism Lab co-listed with ARCH4004 Architecture IV Option Lab (6-7cr) (with a PhD teaching assistant); and PhD advising. PhD advising responsibilities would include managing the PhD program, including required meetings and reviews of progress. Responsibilities would also include workshops and lectures in consultation with WAAC Director.

The College of Architecture, Arts, and Design at Virginia Tech affirms our collective responsibility to encourage, build, and embrace the polyculturalism of our world. We do this by acknowledging and addressing our past, recognizing our current responsibility, and acting in the interests of building and sustaining communities that are truly safe, supportive, and inclusive for all. Our commitment is to continually and proactively engage in these processes for the benefit of our students, staff, and faculty across the college, and the communities around the world we aim to serve.