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Dean Associate Deans The College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) comprises four departments that are directly concerned with the design and development of the physical environment: Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning. The College offers a variety of programs and degrees focusing on the environmental design disciplines within a liberal arts education. The undergraduate programs of the departments of Construction Management and Landscape Architecture lead to professional degrees that serve as the educational credentials for careers in their respective fields. The College also offers two Bachelor of Arts programs: A pre-professional undergraduate major in architectural studies which prepares students for professional programs as well as related roles in society, and a major in community, environment, and planning. Further, the College offers a dual major leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, a program that requires 225 credits. Master's degrees are also offered in the College: Master of Architecture, Master of Science in Architectural Studies, Master of Science in Construction Management (evening degree), Master of Urban Planning, and Master of Landscape Architecture. Master's students may elect to work toward the Certificate in Urban Design or the Certificate in Historic Preservation. A Ph.D. program in built environment is offered as well as an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban design and planning, available through the Graduate School. All curricula encompass an appropriate level of design and technical understanding and include broader social, economic, and cultural issues fundamental to understanding, preserving, and enriching our built and natural environments. As part of a major university and metropolis in the Pacific Northwest, the College is able to reinforce its program by using this setting as a laboratory for study. The College works closely with various professional communities to build curricula and a faculty attuned to the understanding and creation of an appropriate physical environment. Research centers include:
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Institute for Hazard Mitigation Planning and ResearchRobert Freitag, Director The Institute for Hazard Mitigation Planning and Research was established in 1999 as a vehicle for research, teaching, and public service to address the mitigation of natural and man-made hazards through planning and design, and through the integration of mitigation principles into a wide range of disaster and risk-management opportunities. The institute's approach is interdisciplinary, with close links to other academic research units in the University and to risk management organizations in government and industry. The research agenda is aimed at developing practical mitigation solutions that can be incorporated into local government land-use planning, development regulation, infrastructure, and emergency management; state and federal response to disasters; planning for business continuity; and planning for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. The institute is also pursuing curriculum development to incorporate mitigation principles and methods into existing and new courses in the College's degree programs. Urban Design Certificate Program410 Gould Jeffrey Ochsner, Director The College of Architecture and Urban Planning administers a special graduate-level program that leads to the Certificate of Achievement in Urban Design. Since 1968, this interdisciplinary program has provided a collective framework that allows students to specialize in the study and design of the urban environment as part of their professional education. The 14-member faculty offers backgrounds in urban design as well as in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. In addition, the communities of the Puget Sound region provide a unique learning laboratory for students to experience the issues and professional activities of urban design. A core curriculum and mandatory coursework in four substantive areas provide the student with a firm grounding in theory, methods, and practical skills. The program is normally seven quarters in length, concurrent with the master's program. Students accepted for graduate work by the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or Urban Design and Planning are eligible for the program if they possess the necessary design abilities prior to enrollment in advanced studios. International Programs224 Gould The departments of the College offer many opportunities for foreign study in which participants earn academic credit while studying abroad. Programs in Rome and Mexico are sponsored on a regular basis. In addition, various study and exchange opportunities exist in such locations as Germany, the Scandinavian countries, Colombia, Mexico, India, and Japan. Faculty exchanges with foreign institutions occur regularly. University of Washington Rome Center95 Piazza del Biscione, Rome, Italy Katrina Deines, Director The College maintains a permanent year-round facility in Rome. Studio and classroom spaces, a library, administrative offices, and housing accommodations for faculty are located in the Palazzo Pio on the Campo de Fiori. The Rome Center is used by UW programs in classics, Romance languages, art, art history, English, creative writing, and comparative history of ideas, as well as by the departments of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The Rome Center fosters interaction among students from the University and other institutions, together with practicing professionals residing in or visiting Rome. Several major universities regularly share studio critics and lecturers. Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory12 Gould Frank Westerlund, Director The Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory (RSAL) is a facility for teaching, research, and public service applications of remote sensing and geographic information technologies in environmental planning and design. Remote sensing includes aerial photography and satellite systems that record earth-surface data in image or digital form for subsequent interpretation by visual or computer techniques and incorporation into geographic information systems. Research applications have included land-use mapping, urban form analyses, growth-management studies, development siting, natural-resource inventories, and environmental analysis. RSAL houses an extensive collection of air photo, satellite data, map, and documentary resources. In addition to optical photo interpretation equipment, the laboratory utilizes UNIX and NT workstation-based software systems such as ERDAS image processing and ArcInfo GIS. FacilitiesComputingMark Baratta, Director The CAUP Office of Computing provides a wide variety of specialized computing resources and support services for the College's students, faculty, and staff. These resources include the following:
Additionally, students receive UWNetID computing accounts from the University's central computing organization, Computing and Communications. The UWNetID allows attachment to the campus network (either locally or via dial-up) and access to email, disk space for file storage and Web pages, and many computing, course scheduling, bibliographic, and library resources. Lighting Applications LaboratoryThe Lighting Applications Laboratory includes a variety of facilities for use by students and faculty members in conjunction with lighting classes, design-studio courses, and research work. Equipment in the lighting workshop includes lamps and lighting fixtures, sample models and model-building materials, a mirror-box artificial sky, a direct-beam sunlight simulator, assorted light meters and data loggers, cameras, and demonstration displays. The Department of Architecture is a co-sponsor of the Lighting Design Lab. This lab, a 10,000-square-foot, half-million-dollar facility, was designed to demonstrate the energy conservation potential of state-of-the-art architectural lighting technology. It is operated by Seattle City Light in downtown Seattle. Students can take various positions in the lab as interns. It is also available to assist in their lighting design and testing, as it does with regional architectural offices. Photography LaboratoryA large photography laboratory is provided with studio and darkroom facilities for use by photography classes, design-studio classes, special instruction, and independent activity. ShopA fully staffed and equipped wood-, plastic-, and metal-working shop provides students an opportunity to design and build selected projects. The shop is used as an instructional facility in conjunction with studio, structures, and materials classes. Thesis and other individual activity also can be accommodated. LibraryThe Architecture-Urban Planning Library, 334 Gould, is the primary location for materials on architecture, landscape architecture, construction management, and urban design and planning. The collection contains 42,500 volumes, 7,500 microforms, and 300 currently received serial subscriptions. Access to its collection is provided through the UW Libraries Information Gateway, a single World Wide Web location which encompasses all the library's print and electronic resources as well as tools, services, and the ability to search the library's catalog and a wide range of Internet resources. The Gateway is available in all UW libraries and on the Web at www.lib.washington.edu. Visual Resources CollectionHeather Seneff, Director The slide collection consists of approximately 100,000 images covering architectural, landscape, design and planning, and construction subject matter, supporting the curricular and research needs of the College. New materials for lectures and projects are continually added. Student OrganizationsChapters of American Institute of Architects Students, American Society of Landscape Architects, Associated General Contractors, Planning Students Association, and the Historic Preservation Association provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to meet informally and to participate in a variety of projects and events. Undergraduate Degree ProgramsCollege Bachelor Degree Programs
Historic Preservation CertificateThe College of Architecture and Urban Planning offers education in historic preservation. This reflects a conscious choice to emphasize preservation within the context of individual design professions. The curriculum offers an awareness and familiarity with issues involved in identification, designation, interpretation, and preservation of historic places, as well as restoration, adaptive reuse, and design of sympathetic new construction in historic contexts.Program Coordinator Admission RequirementsOpen to students accepted into a graduate program in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Application is made first for admission to a degree program within the college. Once accepted, a separate "Statement of Interest" form is required. Application is made within the first two weeks of classes for two-year degree programs, and by the end of the first year for three-year programs.Certificate Requirements12-15 credits, as follows:
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