Welcome

Tulane’s School of Architecture prepares students for positions of leadership in their communities and in the design professions. We offer academic programs and professional preparation within a context of rigorous scholarship, environmental stewardship and creative endeavor. Our degree programs address important professional concerns—creativity, intellectual advancement, professional and ethical responsibility, technical innovation, and civic engagement—while developing students’ imaginative and intellectual abilities in order to provide the information and strategies needed to address contemporary design practice.

The Architecture curriculum centers on the design studio, which is the primary academic component of each semester. This studio training is coupled with imaginative and comprehensive instruction in architectural history, technology, theory, digital media, techniques of representation and professional concerns. As well, the architecture curriculum places emphasis on significant study in the liberal arts and sciences for which Tulane is renowned. Our approach in all coursework emphasizes a variety of theories, points of view, methods, and goals. We not only enable a student’s development as an architect, but also further the discourse in or discipline by engaging the culture around us and expanding the traditions of architectural thought and practice.