University of Illinois School of Architecture

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University of Illinois School of Architecture
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Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Type Public Professional School
Degrees: BS, MArch, M.S., and PhD
Established1867
Endowment US$6.674 million [1]
DirectorFrancisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, FAIA
Chairs
  • David J Isern, (Associate Director for Academic Affairs)
  • Marci S. Uihlein, (Associate Director for Research)
  • La Tanya Cobb (Associate Director for Student Services)
  • Kathy Anthony, (Health + Well-being)
  • Mark Taylor (Detail + Fabrication)
  • Sara Bartumeus (Urbanism)
  • Abbas Aminmansour (Building Performance)
Academic staff
40
Students757 [1]
Undergraduates 525 [1]
Postgraduates 232 [1]
Location
Champaign, Illinois
,
U.S.
AdmissionsMarch (24.95%) [1]
Website www.arch.illinois.edu
Exhibit of student design projects, Temple Buell Architecture Gallery TBAG Exhibit.jpg
Exhibit of student design projects, Temple Buell Architecture Gallery
An architecture class meeting in Blicharski Atrium of Temple Buell Hall TBH Atrium.jpg
An architecture class meeting in Blicharski Atrium of Temple Buell Hall

The University of Illinois School of Architecture is an academic unit within the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The school is organized around four Program Areas - Building Performance, Detail + Fabrication, Health + Well-being, and Urbanism. Faculty teach and conduct research in these areas in support of the School's primary objective to promote critical engagement with the design of a healthy and sustainable built environment.

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History

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was among the first American institutions of higher learning to offer a curriculum in architecture. Until 1868 there were no architectural schools in the United States, although Thomas Jefferson had proposed one at the University of Virginia in 1814. American architects were trained through apprenticeships or pursued studies abroad. The profession's growing awareness of the need for a professional architecture school in the United States was evidenced by the report of the Committee on Education at the first annual convention of the American Institute of Architects in 1867.

In October 1868 the MIT architecture department opened with four students in the four-year course. Almost a thousand miles to the west, newly appointed Regent John Milton Gregory, at the newly established center of learning, the Illinois Industrial University (renamed the University of Illinois in 1878), also realized the need for formal professional training in architecture. Architecture was included in the Polytechnic Department of the proposed administrative structure Gregory presented to the trustees in May 1867. The first student in this curriculum, Nathan Clifford Ricker arrived in Urbana on January 2, 1870. Ricker became the first graduate of an architecture program in the United States in March 1873. He later became head of the Department of Architecture and oversaw the architectural education of many students. One, Mary Louisa Page, was the first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in North America when she graduated from the University of Illinois in 1879.

Degree programs

The Illinois School of Architecture awards the following degrees: a NAAB-accredited professional degree of Master of Architecture (M.Arch), Master of Science in Architectural Studies (MSAS), Bachelor of Science in Architecture Studies (BSAS), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Architecture.

Two tracks are provided for students in the professional M.Arch degree program. The first is for students who hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture or its equivalent; the second is for students holding a bachelor's degree in a field other than architecture or in architecture but not equivalent to a Bachelor of Science in architecture.

For graduate students, the School also offers a series of joint-degree programs, allowing students to earn two master's degrees in an accelerated timeframe. These include the M.Arch + MBA (Master of Business Administration) program, offered jointly with the College of Business at Illinois, the M.Arch + MUP (Master of Urban Planning) program, offered with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Illinois, The M.Arch + MS in Civil Engineering - Structural Engineering and the M.Arch + MS in Civil Engineering - Construction Management programs, offered with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Illinoi.

Additionally, the school offers a Minor in Architecture to non-architecture undergraduate students and Discover Architecture, a two-week summer program which provides high school students and beginning college students the opportunity to be introduced to architectural graphics, design, and modeling.

School traditions

School facilities

Directors

Student organizations

Plym Distinguished Visiting Professorship

The Plym Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the School of Architecture brings recognized architects to the school so that they can serve as lead studio critic with a School of Architecture faculty member as liaison and students in the studio have often traveled to the main office of the Plym Professor.

The Plym Distinguished Professorship is made possible by a 1981 gift to the school by the late Lawrence J. Plym of Niles, Michigan, past president of the Kawneer Corporation.

Plym Distinguished Professors:

Notable alumni

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