School of Architecture

Interim Director: Dr. Jodi La Coe

Mission Statement

The mission of the School of Architecture is to educate a new generation of architects and interior architects who engage the world passionately and intelligently. As a professional school in a liberal arts university, we endeavor to contextualize a rigorous studio-based curriculum within an educational environment that encourages critical thinking, collaboration, and speculation.

From interior objects to urban environments, we value architecture as a disciplined practice, which we define as a medium through which the world is engaged at a range of scales with conceptual and formal clarity, disciplinary awareness, social agency, and material speculation. We believe that architecture offers ways of making and thinking that enable architects and interior architects to do good in the world through their design work. Our shared values enable differences between and among our programs to become opportunities for productive exchange, collaboration, and growth.