Bachelor in Architecture
The University of Arizona
Key Information
Campus location
Tucson, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
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Introduction
The highly ranked, five-year Bachelor of Architecture prepares you for professional registration and practice in the field of architecture and design.
At CAPLA, we combine place-based design honed in the extreme climate and exquisite landscape of the Sonoran Desert with cutting-edge material and environmental research—all delivered through robust hands-on learning in our world-class facilities.
As a B Arch student, you will acquire a portable design sensibility, empowering you to develop critical modes of practice, regardless of where or how you practice.
Our B Arch is a professional STEM degree accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).
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Curriculum
What You'll Learn
- How to design for climate and place
- Techniques, both digital and analog, for design representation and exploration
- Architectural history and theory
- Passive and active building technologies
- Digital fabrication and other advanced technologies
- How design should respond to materials, fabrication and construction
- The impact of sociocultural factors on design
- How to present your work visually, verbally and materially
- How to collaborate
- Professional practices and ethics
- Social justice and design for all
You’ll graduate ready to thrive in a profession of increasing importance that is taking on climate change, growing urban populations, water scarcity and a post-pandemic world.
In the B Arch, you'll learn to design innovative spaces and places that endure.
At CAPLA, we consider architecture to be the intertwining of sensible, technical, historical, intellectual and aesthetic activities—as a research-based creative practice. Your education here will be informed by place and materials and expressive of the ethos of our time. And unlike four-year undergraduate architectural programs, the University of Arizona's five-year B Arch degree allows you to pursue professional registration without further academic study.
Rankings
#9 Most Admired Public Undergraduate Architecture School (#23 overall)
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Five-Year STEM-Designated, NAAB-Accredited Professional Program
#8 Most Hired from Public Architecture School (Group 3, 50-69 graduates; #12 overall)
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Career Opportunities
Bachelor of Architecture graduates can expect to work in:
- Professional architectural practice
- Construction
- Consulting
- Sustainability
- Preservation
- Computer gaming
- Film and video modeling and production
- Digital fabrication and manufacturing
- Civic advocacy
- Other sectors of the building and construction industry
Graduates who go into practice will have a wide range of practice opportunities—from commercial to residential, industrial to civic, new design to adaptive reuse, all to create the living, work and recreation environments of the future.