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Teaching Architecture in Poland [23]
As someone in a similar situation, i'll try pass on what i've found out to date.
(i'm an Australian qualified architect, worked for 10 years in Western Australia specialising in high end residential work while also doing some part time tutoring at the local university)
to answer your questions first;
i) & ii) i would say that teaching of architecture in Poland would be more specific to your expertise & your ability to work legally than where you are from. The fact that you have a Phd should hold you in good stead for this. Though you might have to get your degrees and academic records translated and recognised as they are all non EU. researching this myself at the moment but have a look here
buwiwm.edu.pl/rec/index.htm
Also on the Krakow architecture department there was an advert for a position in June 2010 that might give you an idea of requirements riad.usk.pk.edu.pl/~a-0/pl/index.php
iii) as part of the requirement for students to study architecture i believe they have to have a knowledge of a foreign language, and from some people i know some of the classes they have attended have been in English. But advice i got was learn polish as quickly as possible! (my aim for this year and probably for many more years to come!!)
iv) salaries don't know, but dont expect it to be too high
v) there are numerous Universities offering architecture courses, best one would be the one that has a vacancy i guess. There is a list of the Universities with architecture courses on wikipedia with web addresses
vi) i'd imagine professorship as a full time employee would mean payments are made to ZUS so that health etc would be covered, but i guess it would depend on contract
vii) enough to survive depends on how you wish to live...
viii) side benefits, dont know, maybe that you get more contacts in the profession and might learn something as well as imparting your knowledge to others???
links;
Board of Polish Architects izbaarchitektow.pl
(I will be visiting them next week to confirm requirements for recognition of my qualifications and procedure for registration within Poland)
Association of Polish Architects sarp.org.pl
a couple of useful websites;
architektura.info
architekci.pl
a-ronet.pl
