College of Architecture at Texas A&M University

Location

The College of Architecture at Texas A&M University is located in the Langford Architecture Center on the university’s main campus in College Station, Texas, which is adjacent to the city of Bryan. The two cities are sometimes referred to interchangeably or together as Bryan/College Station and have a combined population of approximately 120,000 residents. Easterwood Airport, located in College Station, is served by Continental and American airlines with connecting flights to and from Houston and Dallas.

The university is located in the center of the Texas Urban Triangle with Houston approximately 100 miles to the southeast, Austin about 130 miles to the southwest and Dallas 190 miles to the north.

Texas A&M University, the third largest public university in the United States, is Texas’ first public institution of higher learning and one of a few institutions in the nation to hold the federal triple designation as a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant and Space-Grant university. It is home to 48,000 students, of which more than 1,900 are enrolled in the 13 degree programs offered by the College of Architecture.

Vision

The College of Architecture at Texas A&M University belongs to and serves the professional communities of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, land development, construction science and visualization science. The college is dedicated to generating significant new knowledge and insight while producing leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good.

The college is united behind its ambitious but achievable vision to direct and significantly influence — through research, education and service — the state of the art of all aspects of design and construction of the built and virtual environments, and ultimately be recognized as the most important college of its kind in the nation.

About the College

With approximately 1,900 students, the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University is one of the largest colleges of its kind in the United States, offering a comprehensive catalog of prominently ranked graduate and undergraduate programs in the design, planning, construction, land development and visualization professions.

The four departments in the college — architecture, construction science, landscape architecture and urban planning, and visualization — are each fully accredited at the highest possible level and together offer 13 degree programs including doctorates in Architecture and Urban and Regional Sciences. The college has world-renowned programs in visualization sciences, sustainable urbanism, healthcare architecture and historic preservation. It also houses all of Texas A&M University programs in the visual arts. Additionally, the college sustains five formally organized research centers and laboratories dedicated to improving the knowledge base of the professions it serves and supporting six graduate certification programs — Sustainable Urbanism, Environmental Hazard Management, Facility Management, Health Systems and Design, Transportation Planning and Historic Preservation.

The college is distinctive in that it offers a truly interdisciplinary curriculum, recognizing that no single professional track or narrow specialization can adequately prepare tomorrow's building and planning professionals. Because the college houses all of the built environment professions, it is uniquely suited for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Though quite diverse, the disciplines within the college have one predominant commonality — the transformation of the human environment. Because the creativity and sensitivity with which each discipline is practiced has a profound influence on the quality of life in society, the college challenges students to weave aesthetics, safety, function, financial feasibility, sustainability and environmental stewardship into the creative process.

The College of Architecture is part of a university community that is widely known for its leadership in teaching, research and service and for instilling in its students the core values of excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect and selfless service. Its instructors work to ensure that students are well prepared by course work that includes fundamentals as well as the more innovative concepts, spawned by research and scholarly debate.

The college also belongs to and serves the professional communities of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, land development, construction science, and visualization sciences. It is dedicated to generating significant knowledge and insight and producing a long line of qualified aspirants for the jobs of tomorrow.