Architecture Minor - Academic Experience

Situated within the resurging Buffalo binational region, University at Buffalo Architecture partners with local industries, firms, governments and an active grassroots movement to test and advance ideas. Such hands-on engagement and critical practice within our local and global communities cultivate core skills for today’s rapidly changing architecture profession. Visit the School of Architecture and Planning website for more information.

A learn-by-doing approach to professional education is the crux of our programs in architecture, environmental design, real estate development, and urban planning at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. From the studio to the community, students and faculty constantly “do” and “make” through applied research, built works and creative activities. Design inquiry becomes design-build, while design and development concepts become adopted plans for neighborhoods and regions. As a community of makers, we translate knowledge into practice and design the solutions that improve communities and innovate practice. Situated within the resurging Buffalo Niagara binational region, we engage in constant creative dialogue with local industries, firms, designers, planners, governments, and an active grassroots movement. Visit University at Buffalo Architecture’s Learn by Doing webpage for more information. Interested students should contact each research center for more information about available opportunities:

• Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access
• Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies
• Community of Excellence for Global Health Equity
• Citizen Planning School + One Region Forward
• University at Buffalo Regional Institute
• Research and Education in Energy, Environment, and Water

Today students recognize the value and benefits of meaningful international experience as part of their UB education. Study abroad offers a world of opportunities for learning and personal development. Contact University at Buffalo Study Abroad for more information.

University at Buffalo Architecture sponsors a chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), as well as the Graduate Students Architecture (GSA), and Alpha Rho Chi (the fraternity of Architecture, the Applied Arts, and Environment Design), and the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS). These student groups sponsor a variety of events, such as field trips to cities of architectural interest, films and lectures, an annual Beaux-Arts Ball, Lunchtime Lecture Series, GSA Student Exhibit, Graduate Student Reception, exhibits at local galleries, and annual design and building competitions. GSA also supports funding for scholarly publications, grants for thesis work and conference attendance.

Departmental distinctions may be awarded to graduating architecture minors who achieve a high level of academic excellence, creativity and ingenuity within University at Buffalo Architecture.