Knowlton School of Architecture
The Knowlton School of Architecture offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning. These multi-faceted disciplines both enhance and sustain natural and man-made settings, ranging from buildings and sites to neighborhoods, cities, and regions, all of which are subject to diverse and conflicting economic, social, ecological, cultural, and aesthetic objectives and constraints. To do so, these disciplines borrow from the arts and the sciences, calling for creativity and imagination in design and planning at various scales, and for technical skills in understanding the environments in which we live and forecasting how they might evolve.
To meet the challenges of an evolving society with changed expectations regarding environmental quality, sustainability, standards of living, and social progress, new patterns of practice and research must be developed. Designers and planners must be able to address emerging issues both practically and theoretically, learn to extract opportunities from conflicts, and generate built and natural forms that are solutions to both specific and generic problems.
At the Knowlton School, the emphasis is placed on the development of analytical abilities and creative syntheses, which will enable students to address the unidentified problems of the future. Students are encouraged to develop an individual and inclusive approach to design and planning through their exposure to a wide range of contemporary design and planning philosophies, and to a variety of technical and scientific methodologies.
The setting for all these activities is a wonderful, state-of-the-art facility, Knowlton Hall, which was dedicated in 2004. Please, visit this site to learn more about the Knowlton School - its history, faculty, course offerings, research and creative activities, computing resources, digital image library, digital fabrication laboratory, book publication series, public lectures, and other exciting events.
