ARCHBARCH - Architecture
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Program Type
Bachelor of Architecture
College
College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture
Career
Undergraduate
Program Description
The Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) is a five-year degree that prepares students to pursue professional licensure. The program links architectural design to the social and environmental challenges of our time. Students learn design processes that involve existing conditions and adaptive reuse; the relationships among energy, climate, and architectural materials and form; efficacy of ecologies and architectural design; housing and social equity; and high-performance building materials and systems. Students practice addressing these and other complex social and environmental issues in three program stages: Foundation, Core, and Research and Innovation.
Learning Outcomes
- Studio: Students will demonstrate the ability to design comprehensively and synthetically, while addressing complex social and environmental issues of our time.
- Technology: Students will demonstrate the ability to design with technological criteria, including the integration of materials, environmental systems, structures, and performance analysis.
- Design Communications: Students will demonstrate the ability to create, represent, and present architectural projects with clarity, precision, and conviction.
- History & Theory: Students will demonstrate the ability to research, analyze, and appreciate the global history of architecture and urbanism, including the evolving theories of design.
- Professional Practice: Students will demonstrate understanding of professional practice, including ethics, regulatory requirements, construction documentation, and project delivery.
- Technology: Students will demonstrate the ability to design with technological criteria, including the integration of materials, environmental systems, structures, and performance analysis.
- Design Communications: Students will demonstrate the ability to create, represent, and present architectural projects with clarity, precision, and conviction.
- History & Theory: Students will demonstrate the ability to research, analyze, and appreciate the global history of architecture and urbanism, including the evolving theories of design.
- Professional Practice: Students will demonstrate understanding of professional practice, including ethics, regulatory requirements, construction documentation, and project delivery.