The School of Architecture at Dalhousie University invites applications for a Part-Time Academic Instructor position in the Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies (BEDS) Architecture Program. BEDS is a Pre-Professional undergraduate Architecture degree. Students enroll in the BEDS degree in their third year of undergraduate education, entering a two-year sequence in Year 3 and 4.
The course is structured as a 1.5 hr lecture + 3 hr seminar/workshop each week. Seminars are led by the instructor graduate teaching assistants. The format of the seminar/workshop is adaptable based on instructor’s course structure.
From prehistory to the 1500s, this course explores pre-modern formations and transformations of settlements, buildings, and landscapes through an environmental lens. With a comparative analysis of global examples, it traces how water, cosmos, animal and vegetal worlds, geology, and climatic systems have influenced patterns of land use, habitation, and material culture. This cultivates critical perspectives on architecture’s entanglement with environmental dynamics and planetary processes.
FORMAT:
The course cohort is approximately 75+ students, and includes non-majors. Remote course delivery is possible.
