School of Architecture expands to facilitate program growth
(Jan. 21, 2003)--Pictured at right, a UTSA School of Architecture student works on a project in a design studio at the 1604 Campus.
The new school, part of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts until last fall, has an enrollment of more than 300 students with nearly half attending classes at the Urban Loop Studios adjoining the Downtown Campus. Half of the school's faculty has relocated to the Downtown Campus to facilitate growing enrollment.
The UTSA master of architecture program (preprofessional plus two years) was accredited in Fall 2001 by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. The master of architecture is a first professional degree in architecture in preparation for becoming a licensed architect in international practice or historic preservation.
The School of Architecture, which began as a program in 1979 offering a four-year, preprofessional bachelor of fine arts degree in art and design with a concentration in architecture, takes advantage of the unique culture in South Texas and the borderlands of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.
San Antonio offers a laboratory setting in which the program focuses on the threshold between an historic setting and contemporary theory. The teaching philosophy equips the students to be effective practitioners with the ability to judge and the confidence to ask the right questions.
For more information, call Julius M. Gribou, AIA, dean, at (210) 458-4299 or visit the School of Architecture Web site.
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