Overview

Supporting KSU's High Activity Research mission, the Department of Architecture advances the design sciences and their capacities for high-impact, performance-driven, and real-world transformations.  Addressing a multifaceted array of global challenges, we welcome candidates whose manifold experiences and expertise expand and enrich our perspectives, dialogs, methods, and practices.


Situated within the College of Architecture and Construction Management, the Bachelor of Architecture program offers a 5-year, NAAB-accredited professional, and STEM-designated degree that meets general education requirements leading to architecture licensure.

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The program centers on studio sequences that proceed from fundamentals of architectural design, through technical aspects of building and comprehensive design, to investigations of complex urban conditions.  The studios are reinforced with sequences in design communication, architectural culture and theory, structures, environmental technology, and professional practice.


The program culminates in a Fifth-Year Thesis that engages critical research and architectural design, which collectively provides a holistic understanding of design processes necessary to create well-designed and meaningful architecture.

Strategic Plan

The Department of Architecture will continue to strive to be a nationally recognized program centered on building design excellence. Our history of professional and technological innovation will serve to promote environmental leadership and community engagement with a focus on creative interdisciplinary systems thinking. As a well prepared architecture school in Georgia, we will emerge as the most influential professional Architecture program in the Southeastern region!

Our goal at ÁñÁ«»ÆÊÓƵis to fully prepare our students to excel in the profession of Architecture. Our NAAB accredited Bachelor of Architecture program is situated in the rapidly growing Atlanta region, where we provide a multitude of opportunities linking education to practice in support of curricular innovation and applied learning. 

Our dynamic faculty and facilities support core competencies and fundamental professional skills through a strong studio culture and interdisciplinary curriculum. Our students graduate with a holistic sense of the practice of Architecture to become lifelong learners.

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    • Multi-scalar learning opportunities that support the design of a responsive built environment and a resilient educational model for future generations
    • An interdisciplinary STEM curriculum that fosters critical thinking and embraces the full breadth of architectural integration and environmental ethics/responsibilities.
    • Leadership, shared governance, collaboration, and partnerships that demonstrate and expand our value and relevance (to the field of Architecture) through engaged learning
    • Innovative approaches to the profession and Technology to achieve design excellence.
  • The Architecture Program values its strong relationship with the professional community and the active role its members play in the Architecture Program, as colleagues with its faculty, participating on design juries and the advisory committee and serving as mentors and role models to its students as they strive to develop design expertise, aesthetic competency and sound contextual responses in their work. We believe that this serves to strengthen our pursuit of the Program’s goal to develop and nurture a culture of professionalism and a strong sense of ethics within the program and the profession.
  • The Architecture Program places great value on balancing theory and practice in its curriculum. We believe that an emphasis on applied learning and hands-on experience combined with theoretical exploration contributes to higher design standards that are evidenced in the quality and technical prowess of our student projects, the challenging studio and community projects we pursue, and the intellectual dialogues that our students and faculty engage in. We believe that this contributes to our student’s proficiency and preparedness in addressing issues of professionalism, a commitment to improve the man-made environment, an awareness of environmental issues and sustainability, urbanism, etc.