ADA University
Assistant / Associate Professor in Representation
Son tarix 18 iyl 2025 - [email protected]
Department: School of Design & Architecture
Brief information about the School of Design & Architecture at ADA University
The School of Design and Architecture (SDA) is outlined in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano in the framework of the Italy-Azerbaijan University initiative. It will offer bachelor's, master's and non-degree certificate programs in Design, Architecture and Urban Planning. ADA University is intertwined with the country’s plans, where economic and cultural growth lead the way. The urban areas are growing, and the country landscape and profile are evolving.
The School of Design and Architecture will share the polytechnic approach to Design, Architecture, and Urban Planning. Graduates will gain foundational disciplinary knowledge and practical experience, thanks to fundamental courses and the learning-by-doing educational approach that pursues up-to-date development lines in project-based design studios. The School of Design and Architecture offers an international level of study suitable for entering the job market as a junior architect or designer.
More information about SDA can be found at www.ada.edu.az/en/schools/sda
Why apply for this position
The School of Design and Architecture is the place for constant education and innovation, where students will develop the knowledge and skills to contribute to the country’s goal. Indeed, the School of Design and Architecture will raise a new generation of Designers, Architects, and Urban Planners who will participate in the country’s progress, sharing and making the vision for it.
For this purpose, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with public institutions to promote coordinated efforts toward progress, indicating priorities, developing projects, and anticipating future scenarios. Furthermore, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with local communities to promote the country’s development beyond Baku and with global partners to reach a multicultural environment and international status.
Due to this ambitious program, joining SDA will be an opportunity for academic growth and engagement within a new international community of designers and architects.
Brief description of responsibilities:
Principal responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in Architecture. Candidates must have a potential or demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly research and publication in peer-reviewed journals, and academic engagement.
Qualifications:
- Candidates for Assistant Professor must have a Ph.D. in Design or Architecture from an accredited institution or anticipate completion by August 1, 2026, or sooner.
- Candidates for Associate Professor must have a Ph.D. and evidence of quality scholarship.
How to apply:
Please, send to the e-mail address in the Apply for job button the following documents in the PDF format by August 1, 2025, 10 PM Baku time (GMT+4).
- Cover letter (max 1 page)
- Curriculum vitae
- Portfolio of personal work
- Portfolio of selected students’ works (if available)
- Summary of teaching evaluations (if available)
- A list of publications and a PDF of a maximum of three of them
Women and members of minority groups are strongly urged to apply.
Teaching Position Details in Representation
Programme: Bachelor of Urban Planning
Year: 1st
Courses: Representation of Built Environment and Open Space / GIS Production and Representation: Methods and Tools
Description of the Disciplinary Area:
The disciplinary area of ‘Representation’ enables students to learn and master the tools for the representation of the urban-territorial analysis and project, with a formative programme that includes the fundamentals of representation for urban planning, concerning both the built environment and the open spaces. Besides technical drawing based on traditional techniques, in-depth study of representation for planning and for communication of urban projects includes also methods of processing and restitution of digital data in territorial information systems and in related cartographic works. The main teaching tool is frontal teaching, accompanied by exercises and/or drills. The assessment of knowledge typically takes place through oral and written examinations, as well as through applicative exercises. The acquired tools are applied and verified in terms of the ability to use them in the operational activities which are envisaged within the specific courses of the first and the second semesters. However, they are crucial basis for conducting the analytical and design exercises which are envisaged within the core learnings provided by the six semestral Studios characterizing the Educational Programme.
Description of the courses
- Representation of Built Environment and Open Space
Semester: First
Start dates: February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)
The course aims to provide students with basic but complete knowledge and skills to critically identify, interpret, and represent the structural components of urban and regional shapes and relations in order to support and set up broader territorial analyses and following phases of spatial planning and design. Accordingly, the course presents graphical methods and techniques, and iconic and symbolic codes for the territorial representation to apply to the critical analyses of urban and regional phenomena, dynamics, cartography, and masterplans through the development of orthogonal and axonometric projections, schemes and diagrams, thematic maps, plans and sections, perspective and photographic views, and physical and virtual models. Specifically, the course – that is made by lessons related to literature and case studies and by exercises, introducing students to both manual and digital drawings – aims to contribute to: (i) recognize the structural components of urban and regional areas, considering the physical and intangible characteristics of the built environment and the open spaces; (ii) understand how such elements can interplay the broader territorial analyses and the following phases of spatial planning and design; (iii) interpret such elements by distinguishing the direct and indirect strengths and weaknesses of urban and regional phenomena and dynamics, and the connected opportunities and threatens for urban and regional planning; (iv) develop and express the results of spatial reading and interpreting processes with technical and effective drawings at the multiple spatial scales of cities and regions; (v) apply the methods of spatial representation to the critical analyses of urban and regional phenomena, dynamics, cartography, and masterplans.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of foundations, theoretical principles, technical lexicon, and methodologies concerning technical and digital representation of the built environment and open spaces.
- Familiarity with foundations, theoretical principles, technical lexicon, and methodologies concerning urban and regional planning and design.
- Knowledge of analytical and instrumental tools used in processes of urban and regional planning and design.
- Ability in teaching foundational theories, methods, techniques, tools, codes and practices concerning the representation of the built environment and the open spaces by mixing lectures with specific exercises applied to territorial surveys.
- Expertise in guiding students in the implementation of the assigned exercises by improving their skills in technical drawings at the intersection between traditional and digital representations.
- GIS Production and Representation: Methods and Tools
Semester: Second
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
In continuity with the course of Representation of Built Environment and Open Spaces, this course aims to complete the training of the students to the methods, techniques, and tools of urban and regional representation with more advanced and specific knowledge and skills in the digital environment of the Geographic Information Systems (GISs). Through lessons, the course introduces the history of GIS technologies, their organization and functioning, the characteristics of their data, their connected services, their application to spatial representations, and the processes for their implementation. According to these aspects, lessons are integrated by exercises in which students experiment with the collection of available GIS databases, with the collection of data through tracking technologies and applications provided by electronic positioning systems (GPSs), with the application of collected data to the representation of urban and regional analysis related to urban fabrics and open spaces in GIS environments (as ESRI ArcGIS and opensource QGIS), and with the design of a GIS platform, from the preliminary analyses to the prototype model. On one hand, the course provides skills for the comprehension of and the experimentation with the innovative role of information and communication technologies to the improvement of spatial analysis, interpretation, and understanding of the complexity of urban and regional phenomena, by integrating static data related to the physical components of cities and regions with dynamic data related to their multiple and changing uses in different times. On the other, it offers a first exploration of the opportunities provided by GISs for the advancement of spatial planning and design.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of foundations, theoretical principles, technical lexicon, and methodologies concerning technical and digital representation of the built environment and open spaces.
- Familiarity with foundations, theoretical principles, technical lexicon, and methodologies concerning urban and regional planning and design.
- Knowledge of analytical and instrumental tools used in processes of urban and regional planning and design.
- Ability in teaching the organization of GISs, by explaining their models, their computing and management infrastructures, and their data articulation between descriptive and geometric/spatial components.
- Ability in teaching the collection of GIS data through multiple sources of information (as geodetic networks, electronic positioning systems (GPSs), sensors, platforms, extraction of geometric and thematic information from remote sensing images, digital photogrammetry).
- Ability in teaching the publication of geodata on the Internet, considering multiple software, available infrastructures, international rules, and system interoperability.
- Expertise in guiding students in the implementation of the exercises targeted to the exploration of services connected to GISs (including cartography, urban and land cadaster, spatial planning and design, public mobility management, logistic companies, and navigation systems).
- Expertise in guiding students in the implementation of exercises targeted to the application of GISs to urban and regional representations.
- Expertise in guiding students in the implementation of exercises targeted to the development of GISs (including preliminary analysis of possible alternatives, design of components, and strategies of implementation).
Teaching Position Details in Representation and Topography
Programme: Bachelor of Architecture
Year: 2nd
Course: Digital Representation
Description of the Disciplinary Area:
It constitutes a multifaceted and interdisciplinary endeavour that draws upon a wide array of knowledge from various subject areas. This comprehensive integration of knowledge is imparted to aspiring designers through theoretical lectures and laboratory-based teaching methods. The goal is to bridge the gap between theoretical understanding and practical application in the realm of design.
The foundation of the design process lies in the analysis phase, particularly during the concept definition phase. Here, designers utilise the acquired knowledge to frame the problematic context and identify design opportunities, constraints, possibilities, and priorities. This critical phase involves delving into the intricate interplay of factors that influence design decisions.
Description of the course
- Digital Representation
Semester: First
Start dates: February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)
In line with the UNESCO Chart recommendations and the disciplinary foundations of architectural Drawing, the Digi Skills program for the Bachelor aims at providing appropriate digital operational basics in the field of architectural 3D modelling, including the nexus with parametric and BIM modelling, as well as at encouraging the digital fluency necessary to support the architectural design processes and routines, mainly focusing on 3D data input, management, and prototyping.
The course-specific aims, in order to connect the various applications in a unitary process, will consist of modelling, visualizing and prototyping a test scene consisting of a small pavilion with furniture located in its narrow urban context (i.e., a small urban space between two building fronts), created from various source files, georeferenced, and developed in its parts with appropriate accuracy levels, in line with the expected workload. A list of topics like 3D modelling, data acquisition and management, and prototyping are the main educational inputs at the base of the operational process proposed.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- BIM Software Proficiency - Proven knowledge and experience in using BIM software such as Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ArchiCAD (familiarity with other BIM software and tools is also appreciated).
- 3D Modelling Software: Experience in using modelling software such as SketchUp, 3ds Max, Rhinoceros (basic knowledge of Grasshopper is a plus).
- 3D Visualisation Platforms: Familiarity with web-based platforms used for 3D visualisation.
- Skills in data acquisition and their use in modelling, such as point clouds or mesh models produced by photogrammetric survey, etc.
- Standards and Norms in 3D Modelling: Ability to explain standards related to 3D geometry and information modelling, including Level of Information Need (LOIN) and other internationally recognized representation levels in accordance with ISO 19650.
Assistant / Associate Professor in Design Methods, Processes and Tools
Son tarix 18 iyl 2025 [email protected]
Department: School of Design & Architecture
Brief information about the School of Design & Architecture at ADA University
The School of Design and Architecture (SDA) is outlined in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano in the framework of the Italy-Azerbaijan University initiative. It will offer bachelor's, master's and non-degree certificate programs in Design, Architecture and Urban Planning. ADA University is intertwined with the country’s plans, where economic and cultural growth lead the way. The urban areas are growing, and the country landscape and profile are evolving.
The School of Design and Architecture will share the polytechnic approach to Design, Architecture, and Urban Planning. Graduates will gain foundational disciplinary knowledge and practical experience, thanks to fundamental courses and the learning-by-doing educational approach that pursues up-to-date development lines in project-based design studios. The School of Design and Architecture offers an international level of study suitable for entering the job market as a junior architect or designer.
More information about SDA can be found at www.ada.edu.az/en/schools/sda
Why apply for this position
The School of Design and Architecture is the place for constant education and innovation, where students will develop the knowledge and skills to contribute to the country’s goal. Indeed, the School of Design and Architecture will raise a new generation of Designers, Architects, and Urban Planners who will participate in the country’s progress, sharing and making the vision for it.
For this purpose, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with public institutions to promote coordinated efforts toward progress, indicating priorities, developing projects, and anticipating future scenarios. Furthermore, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with local communities to promote the country’s development beyond Baku and with global partners to reach a multicultural environment and international status.
Due to this ambitious program, joining SDA will be an opportunity for academic growth and engagement within a new international community of designers and architects.
Brief description of responsibilities:
Principal responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in Communication Design and/or Interior Design. Candidates must have a potential or demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly research and publication in peer-reviewed journals, and academic engagement.
Qualifications:
- Candidates for Assistant Professor must have a Ph.D. in Design or Architecture from an accredited institution or anticipate completion by August 1, 2026, or sooner.
- Candidates for Associate Professor must have a Ph.D. and evidence of quality scholarship.
How to apply:
Please, send to the e-mail address in the Apply for job button the following documents in the PDF format by August 1, 2025, 10 PM Baku time (GMT+4).
- Cover letter (max 1 page)
- Curriculum vitae
- Portfolio of personal work
- Portfolio of selected students’ works (if available)
- Summary of teaching evaluations (if available)
- A list of publications and a PDF of a maximum of three of them
Women and members of minority groups are strongly urged to apply.
Teaching Position Details in Design Methods, Processes and Tools
Description of the Disciplinary Area:
Design education in this disciplinary area is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating theoretical knowledge from various subject areas with hands-on practice through laboratory-based teaching methods. This approach bridges the gap between theory and application, equipping students with the tools to navigate complex design challenges. The process begins with the analytic phase, notably during concept definition, where students learn to frame the design context by identifying opportunities, constraints, priorities, and user interactions. They analyze artefacts, systems, and environments in terms of their formal, structural, functional, typological, and interaction characteristics. In the synthesis phase, this knowledge supports the development of design solutions by translating conceptual and communication requirements into tangible outcomes, considering appropriate formats, technologies, and assembly methods. Through this integration, students gain a methodological foundation for addressing design problems of medium complexity across diverse contexts.
Programme: Bachelor of Communication Design
Courses: Communication Design Studio 1 / Type Design 1
Description of the courses
- Communication Design Studio 1
Year: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
The studio course* constitutes the first specific design experience students encounter in their studies. The primary aim of this studio is to provide students with the skills to frame the problematic context in terms of identifying design opportunities and constraints and making informed selections and decisions in design project development.
During the studio, students will learn to analyze communication design artifacts (for example, editorial projects such as books or magazines) in their formal, structural, functional, typological characteristics, etc. In the design synthesis phase, this knowledge is fed into project development activities that involve the ability to translate needs into requirements. This foundational training core enables students with the methodological tools necessary to effectively deal with different design issues on a medium complexity scale from the very first approach.
*Studio courses are structured in two distinct, competency-specific modules. Applicants may apply for only one module within the course, based on their relevant competencies.
- Design Process Module
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of communication design methods and processes, with specific reference to context framing, opportunity recognition, and design constraint management.
- Knowledge of analytical tools for examining communication design artefacts in their formal, structural, functional, and typological dimensions.
- Familiarity with concept definition methodologies, including user-communication interaction analysis, information structuring, and problem-solution mapping.
- Ability to guide students in translating user and project needs into design requirements through contextual research and typological comparison.
- Experience in supporting early-stage design activities aimed at defining the scope and goals of the communication project.
- Experience in organizing and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
- Design Project Module
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Proven experience in conducting communication design projects from concept development to visual and material execution, within defined constraints and user requirements.
- Knowledge of how to integrate content, form, and function in the development of communication artefacts and systems, including editorial formats and visual outputs.
- Familiarity with project-based learning methods and studio teaching strategies that support iterative design, prototyping, and refinement.
- Ability to mentor students in managing medium-complexity projects, including design synthesis, user-centred decision making, and the articulation of design proposals.
- Experience in supervising team-based design activities and supporting the development of interpersonal skills such as negotiation, leadership, and conflict resolution.
- Experience in organizing and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
- Type Design 1
Year: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
The course provides fundamental knowledge about the visual principles of typography, an essential element of any communication project, its critical use, and its application to diverse contexts. The course aims to make students aware of the choices regarding typography through alternating theoretical lectures and short exercises.
The educational objective is to provide students with deep knowledge of the evolution of the alphabet, the history of characters, and the basics of typographic style, emphasizing 20th-century type design and application. By gaining skills in this area, students can address text composition issues, micro-typography, grid design, and page layout principles. An overview of contemporary typography will be provided to guide students towards an informed choice of reference models.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of the visual principles of typography, regarding 20th-century type design and its historical, structural, and stylistic evolution.
- Knowledge of typographic systems, including character anatomy, typesetting behaviour, micro-typography, grid systems, and page layout.
- Familiarity with the expressive, functional, and cultural dimensions of type and its role in supporting the communication intent within diverse design contexts.
- Ability to guide students in the critical use of typography through exercises that integrate theory, composition, and reference model analysis.
- Experience in supporting students in developing an informed and personal approach to type design as a core element of visual communication.
- Experience in organizing and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
Programme: Bachelor of Interior Design
Courses: Design Research Studio for Interior Design / Interior Design Studio 2 / Lighting Design
Description of the courses
- Design Research Studio for Interior Design
Year: 2nd
Semester: 1st
Start dates: February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)
The studio* proposes a path aimed at learning the tools and methods of meta-design, that is, of that pre-design process oriented towards innovation through interior design. The studio envisages a methodological path of research with analysis and reading of the context, a phase of research of best practices and design inspirations and trends, a phase of definition of objectives, generation of the concept and its development up to a project defined in all its main components and the design of its communication.
*Studio courses are structured in two distinct, competency-specific modules. Applicants may apply for only one module within the course, based on their relevant competencies.
- Design Research Module
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of meta-design approaches and pre-design processes oriented towards innovation in interior design.
- Knowledge of methods and tools for contextual analysis, including user-artefact-environment relationships, and the identification of design opportunities.
- Familiarity with research-led design practices, including the collection and interpretation of best practices, trends, and design references.
- Ability to guide students in defining design objectives, interpreting complex contexts, and generating grounded design hypotheses.
- Experience in conducting design research within multidisciplinary frameworks, including functional, cultural, and material dimensions.
- Experience in organizing and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
- Design Project Module
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Proven experience in leading the development of interior design concepts into complete spatial proposals, from early vision to detailed definition.
- Knowledge of how to design spatial devices—fixed, mobile, material and immaterial—as part of coherent, context-aware systems.
- Familiarity with design processes that integrate innovation in spatial usage, production, and configuration into functional and cultural scenarios.
- Ability to supervise students in translating research and conceptual frameworks into spatial solutions aligned with identified constraints and opportunities.
- Experience in supporting students in project articulation, design detailing, and communication of interior environments.
- Experience in organizing and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
- Interior Design Studio 2
Year: 2nd
Semester: 2nd
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
This is the second Interior Design Studio* and explores a specific theme that may vary from year to year (domestic or public spaces: retails, libraries, theatres, restaurants and food shops, hotels and hospitality structures, exhibitions and museum spaces, etc). However, the project process is based on certain well-defined phases: research activities and socio-anthropological, customary, and behavioural observations linked to the specific theme to be explored; identification of significant users/targets and possible clients; collection of significant case studies about the specific theme; identification of innovative ideas concerning the various contemporary practices linked to the specific theme; design of project proposals.
*Studio courses are structured in two distinct, competency-specific modules. Applicants may apply for only one module within the course, based on their relevant competencies.
- Design Process Module
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of design research methodologies in interior design, including socio-anthropological, behavioural, and customary observations.
- Knowledge of how to investigate project themes through the identification of target users, clients, and relevant case studies.
- Familiarity with tools for the analysis of existing architectural structures and their urban context as a basis for project development.
- Ability to guide students in framing the project context, identifying design opportunities, and developing concept-driven strategies.
- Experience in organizing and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
- Design Project Module
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Proven experience in developing interior design proposals from concept to detailed definition within assigned architectural and urban contexts.
- Knowledge of technical and expressive tools for designing interior spaces, including colour, material selection, furniture systems, and equipment integration.
- Familiarity with project development at medium complexity level, including functional and aesthetic-formal criteria for interior environments.
- Ability to support students in aligning user needs, client requirements, and spatial characteristics through iterative project development.
- Experience in organising and assessing students’ outcomes through examination and public display.
- Lighting Design
Year: 2nd
Semester: 2nd
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
The teaching of lighting design aims to provide the basics of radiometry, photometry, colorimetry, visual perception, light sources, luminaires, and the design methodology useful for the design of lighting in interior spaces. The relationships between photometric quantities and the reflection factor of surfaces will be investigated. The human visual system will be studied and experiments and measurements will be carried out on refraction and dispersion, chromatic aberration, additive synthesis and coloured shadows, metamerism, visual acuity, retinal persistence, chromatic assimilation and clarity, the importance of contrast, direct and indirect light, the importance of shadow. Then a specific focus on indoor light sources: types, performance and uses, and efficiency.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Strong understanding of the foundations of lighting design, including radiometry, photometry, colorimetry, and the physiology and psychology of human visual perception.
- Knowledge of indoor light sources and luminaires, including their typologies, performance characteristics, optical behaviour, and efficiency metrics.
- Familiarity with lighting design methodology, including site analysis, definition of project objectives, and development of lighting strategies based on technical and perceptual requirements.
- Proficiency in tools and software for lighting calculation and simulation, including CAD-based systems and BIM integration for interior lighting applications.
- Ability to guide students through experimental work related to light phenomena, material interaction, and visual comfort using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
- Experience in teaching lighting design in different application contexts, including residential, commercial, exhibition, and workplace interiors.
Assistant / Associate Professor in Urban Planning
Son tarix 18 iyl 2025 [email protected]
Department: School of Design & Architecture
Brief information about the School of Design & Architecture at ADA University
The School of Design and Architecture (SDA) is outlined in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano in the framework of the Italy-Azerbaijan University initiative. It will offer bachelor's, master's and non-degree certificate programs in Design, Architecture and Urban Planning. ADA University is intertwined with the country’s plans, where economic and cultural growth lead the way. The urban areas are growing, and the country landscape and profile are evolving.
The School of Design and Architecture will share the polytechnic approach to Design, Architecture, and Urban Planning. Graduates will gain foundational disciplinary knowledge and practical experience, thanks to fundamental courses and the learning-by-doing educational approach that pursues up-to-date development lines in project-based design studios. The School of Design and Architecture offers an international level of study suitable for entering the job market as a junior architect or designer.
More information about SDA can be found at www.ada.edu.az/en/schools/sda
Why apply for this position
The School of Design and Architecture is the place for constant education and innovation, where students will develop the knowledge and skills to contribute to the country’s goal. Indeed, the School of Design and Architecture will raise a new generation of Designers, Architects, and Urban Planners who will participate in the country’s progress, sharing and making the vision for it.
For this purpose, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with public institutions to promote coordinated efforts toward progress, indicating priorities, developing projects, and anticipating future scenarios. Furthermore, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with local communities to promote the country’s development beyond Baku and with global partners to reach a multicultural environment and international status.
Due to this ambitious program, joining SDA will be an opportunity for academic growth and engagement within a new international community of designers and architects.
Brief description of responsibilities:
Principal responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in Architecture. Candidates must have a potential or demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly research and publication in peer-reviewed journals, and academic engagement.
Qualifications:
- Candidates for Assistant Professor must have a Ph.D. in Design or Architecture from an accredited institution or anticipate completion by August 1, 2026, or sooner.
- Candidates for Associate Professor must have a Ph.D. and evidence of quality scholarship.
How to apply:
Please, send to the e-mail address in the Apply for job button the following documents in the PDF format by August 1, 2025, 10 PM Baku time (GMT+4).
- Cover letter (max 1 page)
- Curriculum vitae
- Portfolio of personal work
- Portfolio of selected students’ works (if available)
- Summary of teaching evaluations (if available)
- A list of publications and a PDF of a maximum of three of them
Women and members of minority groups are strongly urged to apply.
Teaching Position Details in Urban Planning
Programme: Bachelor of Architecture
Year: 2nd
Courses: Urbanism
Urban Design/Planning module (Architectural and Urban Design Studio)
Description of the Disciplinary Area:
In the field of Urban Planning, the student acquires the methods and tools to adequately deal with the description and analysis of the different intervention contexts and critically evaluate the conditions of using different design and planning strategies.
In the three-year teaching experience, in the context of the knowledge and methodologies supporting the project at different scales, the student gets a detailed critical awareness of the various aspects that influence the design choices on the front of interventions for new construction and the existing built environment.
The graduate's training takes place through theoretical and applicative teachings, often combined in Studios, where they are taught together with Architectural and Urban Design. Within the training course, the Urban Planning sector contributes to acquiring skills relating to conscious and sustainable planning and design of the territory. This sector contributes also to acquiring skills relating to the theories, techniques, and methods of urban and territorial planning.
Description of the courses
- Urbanism
Semester: First
Start dates: February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)
The goal of the course Urbanism is to enable students to approach the theoretical basis and main urban planning and design research methods. Today, new factors such as climate change, population ageing, the long-lasting financial crisis, and the pervasiveness of digital technology all contribute to altering urban and social scenarios, thereby raising new and urgent planning issues.
In the Urbanism course, students explore various planning issues, models, instruments, and methods related to urban phenomena and their relationships with the city's transformation.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Ability to guide students to understand the historical development of the planning discipline and its variegated approaches related to political cultures, economic systems, and territorial patterns.
- Ability to guide students to compare and adapt the best planning practices of the 20th century to contemporary urban problems.
- Capacity to teach students to create an urban design project in relation to emerging issues about the contemporary city. In particular:
- Ability to teach students to conceptualize and interpret the urban dynamics and to understand its links with the urban project forms.
- Ability to give students the competence to interact with people involved in urban and territorial transformation and to understand connected processes (decision-makers, public administrators, private operators, citizens, etc.).
- Urban Design/Planning module (Architectural and Urban Design Studio)
Semester: Second
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
The Architecture and Urban Design studio fosters the relationships between architectural design and the urban scale through a robust interdisciplinary approach to urbanism. The studio's primary goal is to enable students to approach the theoretical bases and main urban design research methods and apply them to design practice.
Theoretical and design sessions provide a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between Architecture and the territorial context by addressing the various positions of the urban planning discipline and its variegated approaches related to political and technical cultures, socio-economic systems, and spatial patterns, as well as by interpreting the contemporary urban challenges.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Ability to explain the logic of historical evolution of urban plans and projects and the typo-morphological study of the context settlements.
- Capacity to guide the design process in the studio through verified control of different scales of intervention, taking advantage of the previous studios' experiences, from the city scale to that of constructive systems.
- Ability to explain principles of design process and architectural composition, such as the relationships with the built environment and the open spaces of the city and the landscape, and the consideration of the users' needs and the regulatory constraints
Assistant / Associate Professor in Architectural and Urban Design
Son tarix 18 iyl 2025 - [email protected]
Department: School of Design & Architecture
Brief information about the School of Design & Architecture at ADA University
The School of Design and Architecture (SDA) is outlined in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano in the framework of the Italy-Azerbaijan University initiative. It will offer bachelor's, master's and non-degree certificate programs in Design, Architecture and Urban Planning. ADA University is intertwined with the country’s plans, where economic and cultural growth lead the way. The urban areas are growing, and the country landscape and profile are evolving.
The School of Design and Architecture will share the polytechnic approach to Design, Architecture, and Urban Planning. Graduates will gain foundational disciplinary knowledge and practical experience, thanks to fundamental courses and the learning-by-doing educational approach that pursues up-to-date development lines in project-based design studios. The School of Design and Architecture offers an international level of study suitable for entering the job market as a junior architect or designer.
More information about SDA can be found at www.ada.edu.az/en/schools/sda
Why apply for this position
The School of Design and Architecture is the place for constant education and innovation, where students will develop the knowledge and skills to contribute to the country’s goal. Indeed, the School of Design and Architecture will raise a new generation of Designers, Architects, and Urban Planners who will participate in the country’s progress, sharing and making the vision for it.
For this purpose, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with public institutions to promote coordinated efforts toward progress, indicating priorities, developing projects, and anticipating future scenarios. Furthermore, the School of Design and Architecture will collaborate with local communities to promote the country’s development beyond Baku and with global partners to reach a multicultural environment and international status.
Due to this ambitious program, joining SDA will be an opportunity for academic growth and engagement within a new international community of designers and architects.
Brief description of responsibilities:
Principal responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in Architecture. Candidates must have a potential or demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly research and publication in peer-reviewed journals, and academic engagement.
Qualifications:
- Candidates for Assistant Professor must have a Ph.D. in Design or Architecture from an accredited institution or anticipate completion by August 1, 2026, or sooner.
- Candidates for Associate Professor must have a Ph.D. and evidence of quality scholarship.
How to apply:
Please, send to the e-mail address in the Apply for job button the following documents in the PDF format by August 1, 2025, 10 PM Baku time (GMT+4).
- Cover letter (max 1 page)
- Curriculum vitae
- Portfolio of personal work
- Portfolio of selected students’ works (if available)
- Summary of teaching evaluations (if available)
- A list of publications and a PDF of a maximum of three of them
Women and members of minority groups are strongly urged to apply.
Teaching Position Details in Architectural and Urban Design
Programme: Bachelor of Architecture
Year: 2nd
Courses: Architectural Composition module (Architectural and Building Technology Design Studio) / Architectural Composition module (Architectural and Urban Design Studio)
Description of the Disciplinary Area:
The field of Architectural Composition, within the training course, aids in acquiring competencies inherent to the theories, techniques and instruments of design of architectural and building artefacts.
Numerous disciplines contribute to the graduate's training through teachings directly aimed at the critical-applicative dimension, which is experimented with in the workshops. In the three-year didactic experience, within the framework of the knowledge and methodologies supporting the architectural project, the student gets an articulated critical awareness of the different aspects that condition the design choices on new construction and interventions in the existing environment.
In the sphere of architectural and urban design, the student also learns to analyse architecture and urban examples concerning their historical, geographical and physical context and to read the relationships between the architectural artefact and the morphological characteristics of the building. Finally, alongside the theories, techniques and instruments of design, the basic skills in project communication and teamwork are taught.
Description of the courses
- Architectural Composition module (Architectural and Building Technology Design Studio)
Semester: First
Start dates: February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)
The Architectural and Building Technology Design Studio aims at fostering – within the strong integration with the architectural design discipline - the ability to handle the coherence of spatial and conceptual design with its materiality and tectonics. Alongside the studio, the student deepens the interrelation between constructive and structural principles and the architectural form through the development of the design aspects related to the constructive systems, the execution details, addressing as well environmental requirements and regulations constraints. The main educational objective of the studio is to provide the student with specific design skills and knowledge acquisition by studying existing projects as case studies and references for managing and controlling the building configuration and the setting of its technical and construction systems.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Ability to teach the student appropriate skills for developing the project at different scales of detailing and the proper representation techniques, deepening the architectural design into its material dimension and technical feasibility.
- Ability to explain the integrated approach, matching the typological and spatial alternatives of the design proposal in coherence with the complexity of user constraints and environmental requirements and with the relative technological and constructive choices.
- Capacity to demonstrate proper management of an integrated system of constraints (environmental, regulatory, structural, constructing, etc.), together with the assessment of the design principles and the architectural languages to consciously deepen the project at different scales of representation according to its material dimension and typological, technological and morphological features.
- Architectural Composition module (Architectural and Urban Design Studio)
Semester: Second
Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)
The Architecture and Urban Design studio fosters the relationships between architectural design and the urban scale through an interdisciplinary approach to urbanism. The studio's primary goal is to enable students to approach the theoretical bases and main urban design research methods and apply them to the design practice.
The student acquires the ability to deepen some relevant issues of the design process concerning the urban environment and landscape, particularly by focusing on the historical evolution of the urban plans and projects and the typo-morphological study of the context settlements.
Theoretical and design sessions provide a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between Architecture and the territorial context by addressing the various positions of the urban planning discipline and its variegated approaches related to political and technical cultures, socio-economic systems, and spatial patterns.
Basic knowledge required to teach the course:
- Ability to teach students to propose a complex and specialised architectural organism from the point of view of the urban context and the functional program, preferring the theme of public architecture with collective functions.
- Capacity to guide the design process in the Studio, through the control of different scales of intervention, taking advantage of the previous studios' experiences, from the city scale to the architectural scale to that of constructive systems.
- Ability to teach the students to delve into some relevant nodes of the design process and architectural composition, such as the relationships with the built environment and the open spaces of the city and the landscape, and the consideration of the users' needs and the regulatory constraints.
