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Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012

Architecture (ARCH)

School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
1298 Architecture Building, 301-405-8000
www.arch.umd.edu
arcinfo@umd.edu
Director: M. Simon (Assoc Prof & Dir, Assoc Prof)
Professors: M. Bell (Prof, Affiliate Prof), R. Etlin (Dist Univ Prof), S. Hurtt (Prof), G. Rockcastle (Prof), R. Vann (Prof)
Associate Professors: C. Bovill (Assoc Prof), R. Eisenbach (Assoc Prof), A. Gardner (Assoc Prof), I. Gournay (Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof), B. Kelly (Assoc Prof)
Assistant Professors: M. Ambrose (Asst Prof), H. Koliji (Asst Prof), P. Noonan (Prof Of Practice), L. Quiros Pacheco (Asst Prof), I. Williams (Asst Prof)
Instructors: J. Catania (Lecturer), K. Crenshaw (Lecturer), L. Escobal (Lecturer), B. Grieb (Lecturer, Proj Mgr), G. Hartman (Lecturer), S. Lau (Lecturer), S. Lewis (Lecturer), K. Melluish (Lecturer), P. Mortensen (Lecturer), E. Northen (Lecturer), A. Rubeling (Lecturer), R. Schneck (Lecturer)
Professors Emeriti: W. Bechhoefer (Prof Emeritus), R. Bennett (Prof Emeritus, Lecturer), G. Francescato (Prof Emeritus), J. Hill (Prof Emeritus), R. Lewis (Prof Emeritus), J. Loss (Prof Emeritus), K. Du Puy (Prof Emeritus), B. Schlesinger (Prof Emeritus)

The Major

The School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation offers a four-year pre-professional undergraduate program leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in architecture. Students graduating with the undergraduate major in architecture typically require two years to complete the curriculum leading to the professional degree in architecture.

Students receive rigorous and comprehensive instruction from a faculty whose members are active in professional practice or research. Many faculty members have distinguished themselves across the professional spectrum and represent different approaches to architectural design. Their individual areas of expertise include architectural design and theory, history, architectural archaeology, technology, urban design and planning, and historic preservation. Visiting critics, lecturers, and the Kea Distinguished Professor augment the faculty; together they provide students with the requisite exposure to contemporary realities of architectural design.

The B.S. degree in architecture will qualify graduates to pursue a career in a number of fields, such as construction, real estate development, public administration, or historic preservation, or to continue in graduate work in professional fields such as architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, landscape architecture, or law.  The program offers design studios and electives in drawing and visual representation leading some of our students to pursue advanced degrees in graphic design, interior design, fashion design, exhibition design and other creative fields. 

For information see the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation entry in Chapter 6.

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