The School of Architecture adopts research-based learning as its standard throughout its curriculum, from inquiry-based freshman studios to a culminating capstone (or thesis) experience in the fifth year.
Research and scholarship as a distinct enterprise are also highly valued as tools by which learning objectives are modeled, tested, and interpreted through methods appropriate to the research problem. This integrated curricular-research paradigm allows the School to achieve its specific goals to:
promote creativity
integrate laboratories with pedagogy
engage in interdisciplinary work
collaborate with local government, professional associations and industry
promote international exchange
Each faculty member, while committed to the research and scholarship goals of the School, College, and University, represents a wide spectrum of research interests. In addition to those focus areas of the graduate program -energy conservation, urban design, emerging material technologies, and preservation studies - the School is developing new areas of research catering to the fundamental needs of our society.
