Architecture (BArch)

Program Description

• Accreditation: NAAB
• STEM designated program

The Bachelor of Architecture is a five-year professional degree program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). Students receive an industry-centered, liberal arts-infused education, blending academic scholarship with hands-on, professional learning. The program encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, and most of our faculty members are practicing industry professionals. As architectural practices evolve rapidly to meet new environmental, economic and societal challenges, our curriculum’s unique focus on market-driven innovation and sustainability gives students a competitive advantage in the industry. The program builds on an interdisciplinary foundation of design and visualization studies and grows into more advanced courses that support design projects of increasing complexity and scope. In the fifth year, students choose from a range of research design studios that explore critical issues such as sustainable design, future smart cities, informal settlements and responsive architecture.

Learning Goals/Outcomes

• Integrate knowledge of liberal arts and sciences with the design of the built environment.
• Appreciate the value of collaboration, including multidisciplinary collaboration, in solving design problems.
• Synthesize theory, function, technology and aesthetics in an integrated and creative way.
• Understand and respect the people, places and contexts that bear upon the built environment around the world.
• Examine the characteristics of professionalism in architectural practice.
• Practice design as integrated process that respects existing contexts and/or inevitable transformations in the field.

Curriculum: 5 year, 164-166 credits