专业描述

The School of Architecture is a diverse, respectful, and open community. Our students, staff and faculty are excellent at what they do, and our diversity contributes to such excellence. As people who care about the built environment, we recognize that diversity is an essential component of our efforts to understand culture, space, embodied experience, and human values. We see diversity in all its forms as a source of resilience, flexibility, and creativity, and are committed to actively learning from our differences. We come from many ethnic, religious and socio–economic backgrounds; we include women and men of all ages and abilities; we are heterosexual, gay and transgender. We are proud of our history of finding strength and insight through our diversity, and actively seek new ways to bring diverse points of view and life experiences to our academic community. The School of Architecture embraces collaboration as a means to gain knowledge through the interaction of people from various backgrounds, cultures, disciplines, and belief systems. It is through these interactions that a common language is created, synergy is created, and by which we see the efforts of individual research and thought within a larger context.