Mission 

The School provides a process through which our students and the professional community can express the creativity, acquire the technical capacity, accept the social responsibility, and recognize a sense of history to make the decisions that shape the built environment.

Through research, practice, outreach, and teaching, students learn to understand the built environment at all scales: from the history, design, function, and impact of a single building or public space to the operation, physical form, and socio-economic system of a metropolitan region.

Faculty and students alike address issues of the art of designing buildings, neighborhoods, and urban districts, as well as the science of understanding the relationship of people to their built environment, both past and present; the socio-economic conditions in the contemporary city; and the factors that shape urban form.