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

1. 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.).

1. 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

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