Job description

Baku, Azerbaijan

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.

Teaching Position Details in Structures

Programme:  Bachelor of Architecture

Year:  2nd

Courses:  Maths for Building Physics and Structural Design / Structural Analysis and Design of Architecture I (Statics)

Description of the Disciplinary Area:

The training in Structural Mechanics gives skills on the static and dynamic behaviour of structures at architectural and urban scales, related to new and ancient constructions. In the field of Statics, the student acquires the ability to resolve an isostatic structure in terms of constraint reactions and internal actions. In the field of construction science, the student acquires the ability to analyse reticular structures, beams and simple frames, both isostatic and hyperstatic, under static and thermal loads. Furthermore, the student acquires the ability to carry out checks on structural deformability and structural loss of stability for compressed columns.

Description of the courses

1. Maths for Building Physics and Structural Design

Semester: First

Start dates:  February 2026 (teaching starts September 2026)

The course’s general objective is to present – taking for achieved the basic elements of the Math (EPA 2.5) of the same educational program in Architecture – some further topics of Mathematical Analysis, focusing on: differential and integral calculus for functions of several real variables; function series and Fourier series; equations and systems of ordinary differential equations.

The topics will be presented, favouring the constructive aspect without giving up the rigour necessary for critically and consciously using mathematical tools in architecture, engineering problems, and applied disciplines. The course-specific aims are to frame those Math skills necessary in the architectural scenario.

Basic knowledge required to teach the course:

• Ability to guide students to understand and use the following skills:
• The calculation of limits of functions in multiple variables; the calculation of partial derivatives of functions in several variables and their applications;
• The calculation of integrals in the plane and in space;
• The discussion of the convergence of power series and Fourier series and the resolution of problems through their use;
• The resolution of ordinary differential equations; the study of the qualitative properties of scalar and in-plane ordinary differential equations.
• Ability to provide students with an understanding not limited to the statement of definitions and results and the resolution of standard exercises.
• Ability to teach students to distinguish different situations and make informed choices, justifying the procedures followed.

1. Structural Analysis and Design of Architecture I (Statics)

Semester: Second

Start dates:  October 2026 (teaching starts January 2027)

The Course’s general objective is to provide the basic tools to deal with static analysis of a structure. It aims to lead the student to a first level of understanding of the behaviour of the different structural typologies to motivate their choice within the project.

Basic knowledge required to teach the course:

• Ability to teach structural skills necessary in the architectural scenario, among the following main topics:
• Loads: the mechanical concept of vector, the concept of force, the concept of torque, the concentrated load, the distributed load, and the load density;
• Vector operations and invariant operations;
• The structural models: the material point, the rigid body, the three-hinged arch and the articulated body;
• The laws of classical mechanics; the equilibrium of the material point;
• Flat rigid displacements;
• Constraints;
• The kinematics of the rigid body;
• The equilibrium of the rigid body in the plane: conditions of determinate, indeterminate and impossible equilibrium;
• The cardinal equations of equilibrium statics;
• The reduced postulate of internal pressures and tensions;
• Constraint reactions and internal actions;
• The equilibrium of rigid articulated systems: the calculation of the equilibrium of flat articulated systems composed of rigid rods in isostatic conditions: the three-hinged arch and the closed ring, the concept of partial equation;
• Constraint reactions and internal actions.

How to apply

Please, send to [email protected] 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.