Landscape Architect : As one of the 50 best careers of 2010, this should have strong growth over the next decade

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Planning the layout of flower beds and colorful blossoms can be part of your work as a landscape architect, but the job is much more than floristry. You'll work with architects and engineers from the start of a project to determine the best placement for buildings, driveways, roads, and sidewalks, as well as the best areas for fountains, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Environmental conservation and restoration play an increasingly important role in landscape architecture, so you may find yourself working with environmental scientists or foresters when planning a site. While you'll spend lots of time focused on your client's wants and needs, you'll also have to ensure that the project is in line with government regulations. While working on site plans, you may also be responsible for sketches, models, video simulations of the finished site, photographs, and cost estimates of the work. You might work on wetlands restoration, college campuses, or shopping centers.

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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN

The Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, invites applications for a full-time, academic year (9 month), tenure track position at the level of Assistant Professor, subject to available funding, to begin August 16, 2010. Teaching responsibilities will include core and advanced design studios, possibly including a multidisciplinary Foundation Design studio, as well as lecture courses and advanced seminars based on expertise.

Design Project Vienna – A Design Strategy
International Ideas Competition: How to React to a City?

Call open for applications until 15 January, 2010
 
In a time of economic upheaval and rapid social change design will have an outstanding role in the future. Vienna as an important young design location can make a substantial contribution to this.

The MAK and departure announce a first-time-ever joint ideas competition: under the heading of Project Vienna – A Design Strategy proposals are invited for innovative design strategies and concepts. Design must go beyond mere object modelling and surface cosmetics and be understood as an integral part of cultural creation. Design informs our everyday life, our culture, and our sense of aesthetics beyond fleeting fashions and styles – design is the mirror of our civilization.

Position Announcement – Department Chair
Clemson University
College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture

The Clemson University Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture seeks a Departmental Chair at the rank of Full Professor to begin August 2010. Candidates should be senior scholars with a doctorate or appropriate terminal degree and professional registration/certification credentials as well as a distinguished teaching, research/practice, and/or public service applied professional record. The successful candidate should have excellent interpersonal skills and experience in academic strategic planning; fiscal and personnel management; consensus building; external funding and sponsored projects; communication with leaders in the private, public, and non profit sectors; capital and departmental fundraising; and alumni relations. Chairs are expected to continue limited teaching, research/practice, and public service.

The Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture is a uniquely interdisciplinary department in a highly diverse College. The Department offers a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA), Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP), Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), Master of Science in Historic Preservation (MSHP, a joint program with the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC), a Master of Real Estate Development (MRED, a joint program with the Department of Finance)  and participates in the multidisciplinary Ph.D. in Planning, Design & the Built Environment (PDBE). These unique and diverse programs allow the department to engage in a full spectrum of land use decisions as well as community management, planning, design and development studios. Currently, the department has over 20 faculty members and 230 students. The department has direct links to both the national leadership and South Carolina chapters of APA, ASLA, ULI and other professional organizations providing a rich access to practitioners in the state and region.

Clemson University is building a culturally diverse faculty committed to working in a multicultural environment and encourages applications from minorities and women. For full consideration, applications should be received by December 1, 2009 although applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Salary will be competitive based on background and discipline.

Applicants should submit via email a letter of application that addresses the job description, curriculum vita, two samples of your best scholarship/creative work and the names of three references including their snail mail and e mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you must use snail mail, please send them to:

Barry Nocks
Chair of the Department Chair Search and Screening Committee
Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
Box 340511, Clemson University,
Clemson, SC 29634 0511

Clemson University, the land grant institution of South Carolina, is located mid way between Atlanta and Charlotte. For more information about the university, please visit http://www.clemson.edu/about/clemsonataglance.html, the college, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/, and the department, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/pla. 

Clemson University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.