Arizona State University, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
The School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture’s collaborative structure fosters innovation through integration. This ethos brings together the expertise of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental science to pool knowledge among these fields of study and synthesize our discoveries to define relationships among culture, technology, and design. We call upon and integrate the expertise of our own faculty, as well as faculty members from other academic units, to foster creative and innovative design research that seeks to embody the university’s goals and benefit our own professional community both locally and globally.

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.