The School of Architecture at the University of Florida is dedicated to providing an excellent educational experience for students intending to enter the profession of architecture. The primary mission of the School and its programs is to provide a curriculum and educational context that teaches students the means by which they can be responsive to human needs in creating the built environment. Our students must be perceptive, skilled and inventive - capable of acting in a responsible manner in today's profession, while continuing to learn throughout their lives so as to realize a visionary profession for the future. The most important facet of this educational mission is to instill in our students a strong social consciousness and a desire to be active participants in improving the quality of their communities.
In the School of Architecture, teaching, research and study are intended to engage the students and faculty in advanced investigations in their discipline; with the ultimate aim of making it possible for each student to make an individual contribution to the improvement of the built environment. The architecture program is intended to foster the intellectual growth and development of students and faculty, to develop new knowledge that will materially add to the discipline of architecture and to society as a whole, to act as an integral and contributing part of the intellectual community of the University, and to encourage graduates to utilize their unique talents in the construction of places that contribute in a fundamental way to the betterment of their fellow neighbors.
