Architecture

The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture offers a unique interdisciplinary education rooted in the liberal arts and the timeless principles of classical design. This four-year degree program provides students with a cultivated understanding of architectural design, composition, practice, history, and theory by emphasizing the enduring beauty and functionality of classical architectural forms.

Architecture studios represent the backbone of the major. Three parallel streams support the studios: development of skills in hand-drawing and painting; education in the theory and history of architecture; and, studies of traditional and time-tested techniques of building technology.

Admission to the major is competitive and there is no guarantee of acceptance. The following are the minimum criteria to meet on the application to the major—as well as remain in the major in good standing: 

• ​Submit a Petition for Acceptance to a Major Program
• Submit transcripts up to and through the midterm grades of freshman year (including any transferred credit)
• Submit a portfolio for review by architecture faculty during the Discovery Day week in April of freshman year
• Earn a minimum grade of C in each Architecture course (or a retake is required)
• Sustain a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA by, and beyond, midterm of the spring semester of sophomore year

Program Mission

The mission of the Architecture Program is to engage the millennia of classic traditions from ancient Egypt and the Middle East to the present through research and emulation. We adhere to the Incarnational view of history and thus believe that a regeneration—a renaissance—of the imago Dei unceasingly beckons to human beings to build anew. Students learn to avail themselves of the classical canon of time-tested methods and principles to be open to real discoveries of new beauties in the design of all types of buildings. The Christian fostering of the transcendentals of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful underpins our classical approach so that students embrace the awesome responsibility of designing for the human person: body, mind, and soul. Our process prepares students to continue in formal studies at the graduate level or to enter the profession (or related fields) as an intern or designer.

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