Dean's Message
Architecture is a complex discipline that organizes diverse human needs and interests, ranging from the pragmatic to the visionary. Syracuse Architecture offers a professional education rooted in a humanistic tradition. This intellectual rigor enhances the understanding of the formative interaction between buildings and culture. Our intent is to educate broadly and to approach skill and technique with the same vitality as a comprehensive knowledge of the world.
The studio experience, at the core of both our undergraduate and graduate programs, focuses on the intense exploration of the creative process, supported by the most challenging approaches to history and theory in the context of the technologies that inform the future practice of our field. Students benefit from extensive one-on-one communication with faculty, in both formal reviews and informal interactions.
As part of its curriculum, the School of Architecture offers a series of lectures, symposia, and exhibitions featuring leading practitioners, critics, and scholars. Situated in a major liberal arts university, students have access to a wide variety of courses throughout the campus and are encouraged to participate in life outside the studio--in other academic units, in the city of Syracuse, and beyond. Our goal is to set a lightning eye toward the future through innovative approaches to the physical as well as social landscape, and to prepare each student to respond with skill, intellect, and passion to the challenges on the path that each one constructs.
Mark Robbins
Dean
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