Overview

UTSA College of Architecture is home to exciting professional programs. We offer a fully accredited Master of Architecture program and three four year degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Bachelor of Science in Construction Science and Management, and a CIDA accredited Bachelor of Science in Interior Design. We also offer a research-oriented Master of Science in Architecture program. We are a young, progressive and dynamic College that nourishes intellectual diversity, and for this we are considered to be a vanguard component of an emerging research-extensive university of more than 28,000 students. We are one of the nation's most exciting and fastest-growing architectural institutions with a diverse faculty and unique student body. Enmeshed in thousands of years of a culturally, historically and politically fecund part of Texas, we hold a strategic advantage to be a literal and figurative gateway to South Texas and the Latin American worlds. We aim to be partners and guides to the citizens and leaders of the city of San Antonio and the region with all of its heritage, peoples, enterprises, and possible futures. San Antonio, a city par excellence, is our living laboratory.

Mission

To educate the next generation of architects, builders, designers and planners in the pursuit of a culturally vibrant, ecologically balanced, and socially just built environment in a world characterized by systemic complexity, requisite uncertainty, rapid change, and unprecedented local and global challenges and opportunities.

To be a think-tank, a laboratory and a resource for our students, colleagues, and general public in our region and across the globe so as to advance knowledge, to advocate and to innovate.

To serve the world through creative endeavors, collaborative work, strident advocacy, and the fostering of strategic partnerships with individuals, communities, governing bodies, and industry members in Texas and around the world.

Vision Statement 2016

The place is abuzz with people who transcend disciplinary boundaries: designers, artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists. Within the solidly built walls, indicative of attention to local materials and craft, bio-degradable digital displays show threads, faces, projects, vignettes, and maps of study abroad and other research activities that emanate from San Antonio and stretch to the key corners of the globe. All around, in well-lit nooks, the café, and the courtyard, people engage in intense discussions and presentations, read books, or sketch out ideas. The building is a text and a palimpsest of knowledge. An array of finely crafted works by students and faculty hang from the high ceiling. Evidence of scholarly events, lectures, and design exhibitions cover the walls, alongside maps, student presentations and position papers. In the more defined spaces, students and faculty from all continents work together, physically and virtually, on innovative, restorative, and collaborative projects. People from communities, local, regional and remote, look over meticulous research, drawings, and digitally milled models of innovative visions of the city and complex urban ecosystems. It is the UTSA College of Architecture where design is leadership! It is a gateway, a destination for visionaries.