Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto ARTS) is a Nordic leader in higher education for design, fashion, game design, media, architecture, film, art education and fine art. We are a diverse community of professionals, with great appreciation for creativity and responsibility. We produce world-class research and educate front-line professionals and visionaries for established, changing and emerging fields. Our new campus in Espoo, in the greater Helsinki area of Finland, makes working together among and across disciplines easier than ever before. We are tackling societal grand challenges head-on and striving towards a sustainable, just society and environment.
The Department of Architecture is an internationally renowned education and research unit. With respect to Finland’s esteemed architectural heritage, we search for new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. To us, architecture is an art form that requires practical skills and individual artistic development, as well as sustainability knowledge relevant to design and planning. We educate critical thinkers who accept their responsibility to research and design a socially, culturally and ecologically sustainable built environment.
The Department of Architecture offers degree programmes in architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture. At the moment, the BA level courses are taught primarily in Finnish whilst MA and doctoral level studies primarily in English. For more information, please see: http://architecture.aalto.fi/en/
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture invites applications for:
Lecturer in Wood Architecture
The position will be filled according to the Aalto University Lecturer Career System (University Teacher/Lecturer, University Lecturer, Senior University Lecturer). The position is to be filled for a fixed term of 5 years, or as a permanent position, depending on the level of the lectureship. More information on the Aalto University Lecturer Career System: https://www.aalto.fi/en/teaching-and-learning/lecturer-career-system.
The position will be filled on 1st of August 2022, or as agreed.
Your role and goals
A lecturer´s duties include planning, coordination, implementation and development of teaching in Wood Architecture. The task also includes administration. Instruction of master’s theses, design and build studios, responsibility for communications and coordination of international cooperation is included. Part of the work time can be allocated to one’s own academic activities and/or artistic work.
In addition to experience in teaching master level students the lecturer should have good team working skills and ability to organize and lead teamwork. A proactive, innovative, and experimental attitude for developing the area of wood construction is needed. Applicants are expected to work in multidisciplinary international environment with students from all over the world.
Your network and team
The lecturer is part of the Wood Architecture team and expected to cooperate with other schools at Aalto University, other Finnish and international universities as well as other Finnish and international partners in wood architecture, wood-based materials, and products.
The lecturer will work in cooperation with professors, other teaching and research staff and studio supervisors of the Department of Architecture and other wood related departments at Aalto University. He/she will cooperate with many local and global partners and experts in the field of sustainable wood construction.
Your experience
The lecturer is required to have at least a higher university degree in fields of wood or interior architecture and design such as master level in architecture, industrial design, product design or computation. The lecturer must have experience in planning, organizing and teaching of university level courses. Artistic, practical and/or scientific merits and good teaching skills are required. Applicants must be acquainted with the recent development of wood architecture especially in the field of construction, production, and wood-based materials.
Additional merits such as pedagogical education, research experience, active societal links and personal professional networks will be considered as an advantage. Comprehensive English skills and evidence of teaching international students is required. Finnish skills is considered as an advantage.
Good knowledge of wood working equipment, architectural and graphic design software and expertise in building or design projects and exhibition design are also an advantage.
What we offer
We offer the opportunity of working in a dynamic world-class community of creative professionals and researchers. The position is located in Otaniemi, Espoo in a campus building made and designed for the School of ARTS. At Aalto University, you will experience an inspiring working environment in a unique combination of the fields of art and design, technology, and business. We work in an atmosphere of true multidisciplinarity, finding clever ways to approach the world’s wicked problems with closely intertwining these three fields. Aalto provides its employees with health care benefits and versatile staff training. The salary is determined based on experience and qualifications according to the salary system of Aalto University.
About Finland
Finland is a great place for living with or without family – it is a safe, politically stable and well-organized Nordic society. Finland is consistently ranked high in quality of life and was just listed again as the happiest country in the world. For more information about living in Finland: https://www.aalto.fi/services/about-finland
Ready to apply?
Please submit your application material through Aalto University´s electronic recruitment system Workday (link 'Apply for this job´ at the bottom of this page) no later than on Monday March 7th, 2022 (Finnish time UTC+2). Aalto University’s employees and visitors should apply for the position by using their existing Workday user account (go to: Workday -> Career -> find
jobs).
The applicants are required to submit the following material:
Curriculum Vitae, according to the guidelines by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity: https://tenk.fi/en/advice-and-materials/template-researchers-curriculum-vitae
Motivation letter, including your vision of the current state and future development in the field of Wood Architecture. These should reflect your approach and new ideas you would bring to the position. (max. 2 pages)
Portfolio of professional practice containing up to five most significant publications and/or selected architectural or related works presented (max. 20 pages)
Teaching portfolio including teaching merits and approach to teaching compiled according to the instructions by the Aalto University. (max 10 pages): teaching_competence_assessment_guidelines_for_candidate_2019_aalto_university.pdf
All application materials should be submitted in English and in PDF format (max 5 MB per document, if you have larger files, please send them to hr-arch@aalto.fi). Please ensure filenames include your name. The Departmental Committee carrying out the recruitment process reserves the right to request the applicants to submit additional material if needed.
We do not accept non-electronic application documents.
Aalto University reserves the right for justified reasons to leave the position vacant, to extend the application period and to consider additional candidates who have not submitted applications during the application period.
Application process
The Department Committee will select from among the applicants those who are invited to visit the Department of Architecture and possibly give a teaching demonstration in Aalto ARTS in April 2022 (week 16, 21.4.-22.4.). The Departmental Committee and the School´s teaching competence assessment committee will also interview the short-listed applicants. Aalto University uses external reviewers during the recruitment process.
The applicants will be reviewed on the basis of following: artistic professional and/or research merits, experience and merits in working with wood, management and teaching competence, collaborative skills and activity in the professional field. The main weight is put on artistic-professional work and pedagogic skills.
For more information
For further information on the available position, please contact Professor Pekka Heikkinen by e-mail pekka.heikkinen(at)aalto.fi.
In questions concerning the recruitment process, please contact HR Coordinator Anna-Sofia Korpijaakko by e-mail hr-arch(at)aalto.fi
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