School of Architecture debuts at Texas A&M
It’s a new era for education and research in design, construction management, and urban planning at Texas A&M, as the university’s new School of Architecture debuts June 8, 2022.
To create a strategic plan for the new school, Patrick Suermann, interim dean of the School of Architecture, led a group of more than 125 faculty, staff and students in a daylong summit April 9 to identify the school’s opportunities and actions to approach them.
“In line with our plan, we will find a visionary donor to name and guide our new school and/or its departments, elevate our focus on the professions we serve, provide our disciplines with innovative, applied research findings, become a leader in interdisciplinary education and research, and ensure that our facilities better reflect our preeminence,” said Suermann.
The newly christened School of Architecture offers a first-rate education in a diverse range of disciplines that address critical, complex challenges in the built and natural environments. Graduating students are equipped to become leaders in their fields and make a difference in the world.
The school’s three departments — architecture, construction science, and landscape architecture and urban planning — offer a total of 16 degrees.
Collectively, these degrees represent a wide array of disciplines in the built and natural environments:
- structures where people live, work, and receive medical treatment;
- roads, bridges and transit systems we rely on every day;
- parks where people reconnect with the natural environment;
- systems that help communities mitigate and recover from the effects of natural hazards, and many more.
As leading researchers in the built and natural environments, the school’s faculty and student scholars are discovering meaningful solutions to critical issues that face society.
In 2020-2021, $7.7 million in external funding was awarded to Texas A&M’s built and natural environment researchers from 33 sources, including the National Science Foundation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and many other leading sources of research funding.
The Department of Visualization, previously grouped with the departments in the former College of Architecture, is now housed in the new Texas A&M School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts.
