Overview

The University of Houston (UH) requests nominations and applications for the Dean of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design. This is a singular leadership opportunity at one of the nation’s most dynamic research universities, situated in a city that is simultaneously one of the world’s great built-environment laboratories and an emerging center of architectural and design culture. This is also a moment of significant transformation in architecture and design education, driven by advances in artificial intelligence, computational design, climate imperatives, and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries. The next Dean will be a forward-thinking leader who embraces that transformation and positions the Hines College at the leading edge of what design education can be.

The next Dean will be an engaging, charismatic, and compassionate leader for the faculty; a strong advocate for the teaching, research, and practice mission of the College; a preeminent university citizen and leader who can represent the College campus-wide; and an energetic and conscientious administrator with strong acumen for finances and strategic resource allocation. The successful candidate will be familiar with evolving challenges that face students and faculty alike in higher education, architecture, interior architecture, environmental design, industrial design, and other related fields; and the successful candidate will be an energetic and visionary leader who will lead the College into its next era and play a leading role in supporting and strengthening UH’s position as a nationally leading Tier One research university.

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