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The Bachelor of Architecture degree, awarded after a minimum of five years of study, is a professionally accredited degree necessary for becoming a licensed architect. All students follow the same curriculum and pursue specific interests through their choice of electives.
The practice of architecture has evolved from the commitments of practitioners who want to bring about sensitive and imaginative ways of improving the built environment. Architects make unique aesthetic statements which enhance the quality of life. Architecture is an applied art directed toward the design and construction of the built environment.
The school’s faculty includes architects, engineers, urban planners, and educators with degrees from many of the most prestigious architecture schools in the world and varied professional experiences. Students work closely with faculty in design studios and are encouraged to seek as many different design critics as possible during their studies. Studio classes maintain a low ratio of 15 to 18 students per faculty member. The school brings visiting practitioners to campus to participate in juries of student work, and fifth-year students are given the opportunity to complete the final year in our Kansas City urban design studio.
Although architects consider themselves artists, the architecture profession, unlike the other arts, depends on knowledge in a wide range of fields, including the sciences. The practice of architecture involves social, psychological, and political considerations, and requires that practitioners have a background in the liberal arts as well as design and technology. |
| “In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit US professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes two types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture and the Master of Architecture. A program may be granted a five-year, three-year, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on its degree of conformance with established educational standards. Masters degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree, which, when earned sequentially, comprise an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.” | |
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