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 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 Technology

Programme: Bachelor of Architecture

Year: 2nd

Courses: Building Technology (Architectural and Building Technology Design Studio)

Description of the Disciplinary Area:

The teaching of Technology, in close connection with the Architectural and Urban Design studios, is focused on identifying the criteria that must be taken during the design phase to direct the choice between different technical options, reaching crucial attention to the social, physical, productive, and economic context. For this purpose, it is necessary to consider the whole building life cycle and users' needs to guarantee the indoor well-being and good functionality/maintenance of the buildings.

Students must study today's resources and construction systems, referring to their performances and mutual relationships within the building system. Students must understand the building process through which the design and construction activities are connected with the stakeholders' role in this process.

In the three-year teaching experience, in the context of the knowledge and methodologies supporting the project, the student acquires a detailed critical awareness of the different aspects that influence the design choices from the new construction interventions and the interventions.

Description of the course

1. Building Technology (Architectural and Building Technology Design Studio)

Semester: First 

Start dates: February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)

The 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. 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.

Basic knowledge required to teach the course:

• Knowledge of the characteristics of construction materials, subsystems and components (production processes, manufacturing methods, specific properties and performances).
• Knowledge of the technical standards as a system of constraints with which one must deal in the design activity.
• Ability to support students in 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 communicate an integrated approach, matching the typological and spatial alternatives of the design proposal in coherence with the complexity of user constraints and with the relative technological and constructive choices.
• Experience in proper management of an integrated system of constraints (environmental, regulatory, structural, constructing, etc.)
• Knowledge about innovative construction systems, coherent with the innovation in the construction sector and contemporary environmental needs.
• Knowledge regarding innovative materials, according to building performance and sustainability.

Teaching Position Details in Building Physics

Programme: Bachelor of Architecture

Year: 2nd

Course: Building Physics

Description of the Disciplinary Area:

The field of Building Physics contributes to the improvement of skills in the transformation of energy and its interaction with architectural works and the landscape.

In the three-year teaching experience, in the context of the knowledge and methodologies supporting the architectural project, the student acquires a detailed critical awareness of the different aspects that influence the design choices both on the front of the building of new constructions and on the front of interventions on the built environment.

In Building Physics, the student also acquires the ability to identify and manage the variables that characterize the relationship between the built environment and energy-ecologically friendly comfort and to orient design and construction practices towards solutions characterized by a high level of sustainable energy efficiency.

Description of the course

1. Building Physics

Semester: Second

Start dates: October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)

Building physics is that part of knowledge that studies energy efficiency problems in buildings and environmental comfort (thermal-hygrometric, acoustic, and visual). Its field of action is not limited to the study of buildings but also extends to the external environment at various territorial scales.

The Course's general objective is the study of the energy-environmental performance of buildings and the consequent connections with urban, architectural, and plant design. The topics necessary for understanding the interaction between the external environment - building - internal environment, the exploitation of energy sources and the satisfaction of comfort are covered.

Basic knowledge required to teach the course:

• Ability to guide students through developing following skills: 
• general notions of technical physics, energy in its different forms, principles of conservation of mass and energy; 
• principles of thermodynamics and cycles for energy production; 
• heat transmission conduction, convection and radiation; climate as a project element; 
• thermo-hygrometric comfort, psychrometry and humid air diagram; 
• building thermos-physics, thermal control design (passive systems); 
• calculation of the winter and summer heat load; 
• plant technologies for reducing energy consumption;
• use of renewable sources; 
• criteria for the building and plant design of nearly zero-energy buildings and zero-energy buildings; 
• principles of natural lighting and lighting engineering;
• principles of natural ventilation and overall building performances;
• analysis of the main environmental issues and constraints, for sustainable approach;
• Ability to communicate to students the tools necessary to verify the energy behavior of the buildings they will have to design or redevelop.

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