About The School Today
The Tulane School of Architecture today is home to approximately three hundred and fifty students who are taught each semester by twenty full-time faculty as well as part-time professionals and visiting instructors. Programs of study leading to the Masters of Architecture degree are supplemented by a variety of special academic opportunities: Architect’s Week, conferences and symposia, a public lecture series, exhibitions, competitions, research opportunities, student activities, and school publications.
At present the School is undergoing a significant shift in its focus and programs. Our students will be encouraged to understand architecture as a vehicle for, and a generator of, civic engagement. We are creating a new teaching and research facility in downtown New Orleans—The Tulane City Center—in which students will take courses that emphasize innovative design in the public arena. We will offer an expanded selection of courses, as well as new joint degree programs with other academic and professional disciplines. We are adding to our already rich array of foreign travel programs. And, critically, our wireless-enabled building will become the hub of a new focus on digitally-aided design and fabrication.
These and other initiatives will be reflected in the dynamic new curriculum. The Master’s Degree will remain the accredited program, but incoming students should expect and understand that changes to the courses of study are likely. These changes will be thoroughly documented and explained in supplemental published materials, and it is the responsibility of each student to keep abreast of these developments through their academic advisors.