Program Overview  

A Bachelor of Architecture degree is a five-year professionally accredited program. The core of our curriculum is the studio, where you learn to explore and generate ideas, speculate, draw, and envision your own creative practice. The first year, you will focus on design fundamentals. Our curriculum supports radical experimental thinking from the beginning. In response to open-ended prompts, students operate conceptually. As students move through the program, territories, research, systems, atmospheres, cities, and buildings take shape. The B.Arch concludes with students choosing the way they frame their work. This often involves bringing personal, poetic, and extra-disciplinary ideas into their process.  

We have two paths to provide greater opportunity for your career goals. In addition to the B.Arch, we offer a degree option to prepare students for an accelerated master’s degree in landscape architecture. 

Concentrations 

B.Arch – Traditional Track
B.Arch – Master of Landscape Architecture Preparatory Track 

First-Year Courses 

The first year focuses on design fundamentals, moving through conceptual, abstract and experimental exercises that challenge preconceived ideas about space and form. 

Fall

Students can anticipate accruing up to 15 credit hours in this semester.  

ARCH 171 Design I: Spatial Order I
ARCH 123 Representation I: Visual Logic and Perception
ARCH 101/107H Intro to Architecture
ENG 101 or equivalent, supporting a student’s written communication requirement
MATH 113 or 125, supporting a student’s quantitative reasoning requirement 

Spring

Students can anticipate accruing up to 15 credit hours in this semester. 

ARCH 172 Design II: Spatial Order II
ARCH 124 Representation II: Intention and Communication
ARCH 102 Visual Design Theory
PHYS 161, supporting a student’s natural sciences requirement
ENG 102 or equivalent, supporting a student’s written communication requirement
ELECTIVE, supporting a student’s oral communication requirement 

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