Assistant Professor - Landscape and Eco-Technology - Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
The University of California, Berkeley
About this position
Position Overview
Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $84,100-$132,900 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions. Anticipated start: July 1, 2027
Application Deadline
Open date: July 29, 2026 Next review date:Thursday, Oct 15, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Thursday, Oct 15, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.
Position Description
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) at UC Berkeley seeks to fill a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to contemporary design discourse on “Landscape and Eco-Technology” through disciplinary engagement, teaching, research and/or practice. This position will allow the department to carry forward its legacy of leadership in service of the State of California, the nation, and the wider world. It also will further the department’s disciplinary knowledge on public infrastructure through teaching, design, and/or research in material, vegetal, topographical, and hydrologic landscape systems. We seek a colleague whose approach encompasses cultural meaning and critical discourse as well as performance-based assessment and design engagement. The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley is California’s flagship program. As an accredited professional program in an R1 institution, the department expects its faculty to carry out research and/or creative practice that is recognized nationally and internationally and to support pedagogy that critically advances the role of Eco-Technology in contemporary design, praxis, and landscape performance. Landscape architecture has a long and distinguished history at Berkeley, starting in 1913 and boasting a renowned cast of alumni and faculty. Today, we offer degree programs at the undergraduate, Masters, and PhD levels. As one of the founding departments in the College of Environmental Design, established in 1959, interdisciplinarity is part of our ethos and public engagement of our mission. Building on the legacy of environmental design, we tackle contemporary challenges from climate adaptation to societal crises across methods, technologies, and media (UC Berkeley’s Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning). Landscape and Eco-Technology is integral to the resilience, performance, and equity of urban systems. By considering scales and typologies—from site-based construction practices to national climate adaptation strategies, circularity, and carbon policy—we can establish partnerships and enrich disciplinary discourse. Eco-Technology comes into play across topographic, hydrologic, vegetated, and material systems that define contemporary landscape architectural praxis. It requires a synthetic understanding of how landscape systems are connected and are comprehensively designed, modeled, and prototyped. Our department recognizes Eco-Technology as a core competency within landscape architecture, one that is indispensable to the creation of livable, inclusive, and healthy sustainable cities. The successful candidate will help develop courses in the area of Eco-Technology as well as contribute to the department and beyond through collaboration and mentoring. We recognize that scholarship in landscape architecture encompasses research, applied research, and creative practice. Similarly, output spans a variety of media, methods, and themes, from fabrication and prototyping, to material craft, built work, and code. Position responsibilities include foundational and advanced instruction in topography, materials, and construction across the graduate and undergraduate LAEP curriculum. The typical mode of instruction is carried through design studio, lecture course, seminar, and advising. The position also aims to establish cross-disciplinary research initiatives that advance knowledge of landscape technology as it intersects with human health, law, design arts, engineering, material science, and environmental policy, among other cultural practices. This faculty member should be positioned to engage in cross-disciplinary discourse, teaching, and research, with an emerging record of scholarship, public engagement, and/or built works commensurate with expectations for a tenure-track professor at UC Berkeley. Shared governance and collegiality are paramount at Berkeley and Senate Faculty are expected to serve in the department, college, university, profession, and broader community. UC Berkeley values the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples, single parents, or those who may have taken time off for family reasons. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit the Office for Faculty Equity and Welfare's website. Department: https://ced.berkeley.edu/land
Qualifications
Basic qualifications(required at time of application)Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent international degree) Preferred qualificationsOne of the following by the start date of the position is strongly preferred: Undergraduate degree in landscape architecture (BLA, BSLA, or equivalent international degree) with an additional graduate degree in landscape architecture or allied disciplines (MArch, MUD, MUP, MDes, PhD, etc.) Undergraduate/graduate degree in landscape architecture (or equivalent international degree) and Professional Licensure in Landscape Architecture (PLA) Graduate degree in landscape architecture (MLA, MSLA, or an equivalent international degree)
Application Requirements
Document requirementsCurriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. Statement of Interest - Submit a 2-3-page statement of interest describing research objectives, teaching philosophy, and experience as well as pedagogical approach, and any service to the profession and/or your current institution. Portfolio of Creative Works & Research - Submit representative samples of creative works, professional projects, publications (full texts or links), applied research, or any other type of design or research output. Submit the portfolio as a single pdf, no larger than 50MB. Dossier of Teaching Materials - Submit teaching examples of design studios or other coursework and pedagogies. Indicate your role (coordinator, instructor, teaching assistant). This documentation should be submitted in a single pdf no larger than 50MB Reference requirements 3-5 required (contact information only) Provide name, title, and contact information for 3-5 references who are familiar with your research, practice, and/or teaching. The Search Committee will request letters only if the candidate advances to the next stage of the process. Apply link:https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05465 Help contact:ced-personnel@berkeley.edu