ARCH 1010: Introduction to Design
This course provides a studio design foundation for aspiring designers, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and product designers to pursue their creative aspirations and positively impact society through design.
Left: Gordon Matta Clark precedent study; Right: Arielle Bennett Move Memorial, Fall '22

Architecture in the University
The study of architecture is focused around a core of sequential design studios.
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Architecture in the Community
The study of architecture engages the local community beyond the campus.
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Architecture in the World
The study of architecture extends beyond the local community into the world.
Learn MoreMission Statement
The mission of the undergraduate program in architecture is to develop analytical thinking and creative making within the discipline of architecture in the context of a general liberal arts and sciences curriculum.
Events
Terrain Translation
Studio Exhibition: ARCH 302: Design II, Christopher McAdams, instructor
An investigation of topographies, tectonics and the relationships of landform buildings through parametric scaffolds.
Geometrical Descriptions
Annual Exhibition
An exhibition of descriptive geometry, orthogonal geometry, non-euclidean geometry, intersecting geometries and polyhedral nets.
Baroque Topologies
Annual Exhibition
A reassessment of formal and spatial complexity of Italian Baroque Architecture in the era of big data.
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