The University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design aspires to provide education and scholarship of the highest quality—to advance the frontiers of design knowledge, to educate leaders in design, research, and scholarship, to make a resilient, just, and meaningful world.

The Department of Historic Preservation provides an integrated approach for architects, landscape architects, planners, engineers, historians, archaeologists, conservators, and other professionals from related fields to understand, sustain, and transform the existing built environment.

The department seeks to recruit a distinguished practitioner at the level of Professor or Associate Professor of Practice who is actively engaged in professional design activities in the context of the historical environment to help impact the next phase of our department. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in preservation design, playing an active role in the pedagogy of the program's preservation design concentration and its curriculum, including studio. In addition, the candidate will have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Building Rehabilitation, Urban Conservation; Construction/Material Culture; Climate/Sustainability. Teaching responsibilities will involve required design studio courses for students in the MSHP and post-professional MSD-Historic Preservation programs. Additionally, the successful candidate may offer lecture courses and research-based seminars in their area of expertise to students across the professional, and post-professional tracts. The candidates are expected to regularly engage with students and faculty through thesis advising, guest critiques, and project reviews.

Candidates should be creative designers who show promise of an innovative approach with contributions to the field. Candidates should also demonstrate investment in design scholarship and in critical and creative studio pedagogy, particularly with respect to teaching foundational design

Practice positions are reserved for distinguished professionals who wish to combine education and practice. These positions bring knowledge developed in practice and apply teaching as a way of exploring ideas and theories more freely than practice assignments permit. Practitioners should be recognized in their field and seek to develop educational opportunities that expose students to the leading edge of their particular fields. Appointments of practitioner educators offer multi-year security and are renewable. The appointment(s) is expected to start in Fall of 2024.