Design Studio Tutors | London School of Architecture

Closing Date: APPLY BY 13 JULY 2022

The London School of Architecture is looking for Design Studio Tutors to join the team.

Job Overview

The London School of Architecture is seeking applications for exceptional Design Studio tutors who can support teaching across its two-year MArch in Designing Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) programme.

There are six Design Studio modules across Year One and Two at the LSA. The modules build toward an understanding of the systems and structures of the city. Design methodologies are developed in collaboration with peers and practices and establish the context for a student’s individual design thesis. Design Studio tutors will guide a group of students through a series of design exercises and submissions supporting them through tutorials, seminars, workshops and reviews towards producing an individual design portfolio.

We welcome applications from:

• experienced architectural practitioners who have outstanding skills in communicating their design knowledge

• experienced architectural practitioners with high levels of climate literacy and good command of contemporary design discourse

• practitioners who have a broad range of design methodologies to draw on to meet a range of student thesis topics

• practitioners who are well equipped to help post-graduate students develop their design skills

• practitioners who have an exceptional aptitude for fostering design talent in students

Applicants should:

• subscribe to the mission for the school and be able to make a critical contribution to it: www.the-lsa.org/about/purpose/

• experienced tutors to have at least four years of teaching experience (i.e. not just as a visiting critic)

• early career practitioners to have at least four years in practice

• be available to teach in our studio in East London

• preferably be practising in London, in your own practice or as an employee

DELIVERABLES

• please submit a portfolio, CV and covering letter by Wednesday 13 July 2022 to people@the-lsa.org

• please make clear in your covering letter your level of practice and teaching experience

• interviews will take place the week commencing 18 July 2022

• positions commence in September/October

If you have any questions please email the LSA’s Academic Director, Samantha Hardingham samantha@the-lsa.org

Equal Opportunities in Recruitment & Employment at the LSA

The LSA is committed to the principles of equal opportunity in our recruitment and employment practices. It is our policy to ensure that no job applicant nor current employee receives less favourable treatment due to a protected characteristic (ie race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, marital status or civil partnership, pregnancy/ maternity or gender reassignment) or is disadvantaged by any conditions or requirements being placed on him/her/they which cannot be justified. 

For more detail please refer to our Equal Opportunity Policy and Recruitment Policy, included in the LSA Institutional Handbook. This policy is non-contractual but sets out the way in which we aim to manage equal opportunity in our recruitment and employment processes.