The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture offers an integrated curriculum of professional courses and focus on the design labratory. The programs reflect an awareness of the complex factors affecting the quality of the built environment. The programs seek through scholarship, teaching, research, design and community service to develop the discipline and the knowledge necessary to address the important environmental and design issues faced by society.
Graduate studies in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture are organized to provide students the ability to move from a general understanding of architecture toward advanced knowledge and skills, emphasizing a deep awareness of theoretical foundations and contemporary issues in architecture. Emphasis is also given to questions of tectonics and the need to integrate theories of making into the conception of architecture.