College of Architecture

The School of Architecture is devoted to professional education with a sensibility honed in the edge conditions of an extreme climate on a major international border. Located in the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the United States, the School combines a culturally rich past with cutting-edge environmental research in its place-based design approach to the arid environment.

With a diverse body of both students and faculty, and a cross-disciplinary curriculum integrated with Landscape Architecture and Planning, our work in the Sonoran Desert is readily applied to delicate and unique ecologies worldwide.