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The College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University was established in 1871 as the School of Architecture, offering the first four-year course of study in architecture in the United States. It is currently the smallest of the seven undergraduate colleges and schools, with an undergraduate enrollment of 547 [1] and a faculty over 60 [2]. The college is divided into three departments: Architecture, Art and City and Regional Planning and also maintains a close relationship with the Department of Landscape Architecture, housed in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. For other uses of the name Cornell, see Cornell (disambiguation). ...
1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ...
A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ...
Architecture (in Greek αÏχή = first and Ï„Îχνη = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ...
Resources ArtLex. ...
Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ...
Landscape architecture is the art, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land and the design of man-made constructs. ...
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences logo It has been suggested that Plant Biology at Cornell be merged into this article or section. ...
Facilities
The college occupies a number of buildings on the northern end of the Arts Quad. Facilities for architecture and city and regional planning and administrative offices for the college are found in Sibley Hall, which also houses the Fine Arts Library and the Green Dragon Cafe; the Art Department is located in Tjaden Hall; additional facilities, such as studios, are in Rand Hall. Rand Hall is slated for destruction, so that Milstein Hall, which will stand in its place, can be completed by 2006. College of Arts & Sciences logo The Arts Quad includes the original three buildings of the University, Morrill Hall, McGraw Hall, and White Hall, seen on the left. ...
2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Degrees Undergraduate programs offered by the college lead to the bachelor's degree. A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ...
- B.Arch. - A five-year program in architecture
- B.F.A. - Four-year programs in art or architecture
- B.S. - Four-year programs with concentrations in either urban and regional studies or history of architecture
The Bachelor of Fine Arts, or BFA, or B.F.A. is an undergraduate degree. ...
A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ...
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