Arizona State University, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Welcome to the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture Web site. Located within one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing universities and set in the context of one of the country’s most rapidly urbanizing metropolises, the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture is engaging in a new paradigm for teaching and research in the 21st century.

The School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture plays an important role within the context of the community it serves. As the largest professional architecture and landscape architecture program in the region, we graduate future leaders in the design of the built environment whose work impacts the citizens and public realms of our rapidly urbanizing city. As a public professional school, we have a responsibility to contribute to the public good. Our success and the success of our graduates directly translates into a better future for the greater metropolitan area.

The School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture brings together the expertise of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and environmental science. We create knowledge and design futures through the synthesis and collaboration of these fields of study. The school’s collaborative structure fosters innovation through the integration of expertise among academic units, university-based research and practitioners. As part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the larger ASU community, the school educates designers and fosters research in all scales of the built environment: local, regional, national and international.

The school’s mission is to educate future architects, landscape architects, and urban designers to shape collaborations, synthesize complexity, and catalyze transformation for public good.

Auburn University, College of Architecture, Design and Construction
Our objective is to continue the traditions of excellence established by the many fine graduates who have studied here and gone forward to distinguished careers in the design and construction fields. The seven programs housed in the CADC make up the major components of the design and construction industries. Whether one chooses to study building science, industrial design, graphic design, architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, or community planning, our commitment is to ensure that students gain the educational values, technical skills, knowledge and ideas to promote life-long achievement.

Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture
The College of Architecture at Georgia Tech has been a leader in design innovation since 1908. Students, faculty and researchers in the Schools of Architecture, Building Construction, City & Regional Planning, Industrial Design and Music work across boundaries to advance knowledge of designed environments at all scales, producing new realms of experience and creativity. Georgia Tech offers bachelors, masters and doctoral studies in architecture, building construction, and industrial design: masters and doctoral studies in planning and music. Areas of concentration include, integrated project delivery, and high performance buildings and urban design. The College’s seven interdisciplinary research centers apply cutting edge research in partnership with corporate, government, and nonprofit agencies. These centers include the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory/Digital Design and Fabrication Lab; the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA); the Center for Geographic Information Systems (CGIS); the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT); the Interactive Media Architecture Group in Education (IMAGINE Lab); the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD); and the Construction Resources Center (CRC).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning
The unifying theme of all our activities is design. Through the design of physical spaces, and through the design of policies and technologies that shape how those spaces are used, we aim to sustain and enhance the quality of the human environment at all scales, from the personal to the global. We believe that design and policy interventions should be grounded in a commitment to improving individual human lives, equity and social justice, cultural enrichment and the responsible use of resources through creative problem-solving and project execution.

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
The work of the students here at Pratt shows a clear appreciation and understanding of the possibilities of architecture today, as the mission of the school is dedicated to design and a complete understanding of the making of cities and buildings. The spirit of advancing architectural ideas in terms of both form and technique is at the essence of the transformation of contemporary design.

University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design
The first school to combine the disciplines of architecture, planning, and landscape architecture into a single college, CED led the way toward an integrated approach to analyzing, understanding, and designing our built environment. CED was also among the first to conceptualize environmental design as inseparable from its social, political-economic, and cultural contexts.

University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
The School provides a process through which our students and the professional community can express the creativity, acquire the technical capacity, accept the social responsibility, and recognize a sense of history to make the decisions that shape the built environment. Through research, practice, outreach and teaching, students learn to understand the built environment at all scales: from the history, design, function and impact of a single building or public space to the operation, physical form and socioeconomic system of a metropolitan region.

University of Miami, School of Architecture
The School of Architecture’s mission is founded in the faculty commitment to community and its focus on the city as a work of art and architecture. The school is a forum for the work of New Urbanism, an international movement with a charter of 27 principles addressing issues ranging from the scale of a region to individual buildings. Those principles form a vision which guides the programs of the UMSA.

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
The fields of architecture and urban planning are poised to undergo dramatic changes. Beginning in the nineties, we saw the emergence of the “star” architect as a cultural force and the consolidation of architecture as an agent for physical and economic change in cities across the world. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were a culmination of this era and a demonstration of the potential power of architecture. However, this model of practice has already shown its limits, its weaknesses, and its flaws. It is safe to say that a new generation of practitioners will not be able to follow in the footsteps of its predecessors and, more importantly, should not.

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto
The fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design are characterized today by exceptional pressure for change. Globalization and the convergence of new media, materials, and building technologies have led to radical change in economic, technical, and aesthetic formations in the design fields. The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (Daniels) is responding to these shifts.

As the largest city in Canada and one of the most dynamic in North America, Toronto is a thriving metropolis, providing exceptional resources for the aspiring architect, landscape architect, or urban designer to study the early twenty-first-century human condition. Daniels has a global orientation in its teaching and research while simultaneously believing in the importance of sensitively addressing local forces. In this context, Daniels strives to harness the potential of Toronto’s distinctive multi-ethnic and multicultural society. The greater Toronto region serves as a dynamic laboratory for critical studies and the imaginative exploration of design alternatives that will be of consequence internationally.

Students not only have the city to use as a resource, but also have access to Toronto’s large professional design community, many of whom teach at the school. In addition, the city’s multicultural networks and international connections make Daniels a powerful place to start a career. Daniels’ focus on interdisciplinary training and research will test your limits and challenge you to rethink design for the 21st century.