6: Graduate School of Architecture
General Information |
Programs and Degrees Offered |
Course Descriptions |
Faculty
Facilities |
Student Honors and Awards
Facilities
Campbell Hall, the School of Architecture building, was completed
in 1970 and is part of a complex of buildings forming a Fine Arts
Center which also includes the Department of Art,
the Department of Drama, and
the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library. Campbell Hall
provides well-equipped studio work areas, exhibition areas, lecture
halls, and seminar rooms. The school has two computer graphics
and computer aided design laboratories with high resolution graphics,
and is linked with the digital imaging center located in the adjacent
Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library. It supports software applications
in computer aided design, GIS digital mapping and modeling, site analysis,
image processing, rendering, animation, structural analysis, lighting
analysis, energy analysis, statistics, word processing, spread-sheet
and other areas. It contains UNIX, Macintosh and IBM computers
on the Internet, and maintains digital voice and video links with
other research laboratories in the United States and Europe. Provision
for networked computers within all design studios is actively
under development. Other research support facilities include mechanical
and structural laboratories, a woodworking shop, and a photography
darkroom.
The Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library, a branch of the
University Library system, is part of the School of Architecture. The collections,
consisting of 139,000 volumes, 187,000 slides, and various kinds
of technical reports, cover all subjects related to architecture,
landscape architecture, architectural history, planning, and the
visual and performing arts. The Fine Arts Library provides its
patrons access to all other University Library resources including
very extensive collections of government documents, maps, video
recordings, rare books, manuscripts, and many hundreds of on-line
databases as well as a gateway to the Internet. Special emphasis is placed on teaching students and faculty
to find needed information utilizing on-line electronic resources.
Reference services are provided to the entire University community
and to the arts and architecture practitioners throughout the
Commonwealth.
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