University of Minnesota
ARCC Member Unit:
Department of Architecture
Renee Cheng, Head, Associate Professor
e-mail: rcheng@umn.edu
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
145 Ralph Rapson Hall
89 Church St, SE
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-7866
Fax: 612-624-5743
e-mail: archinfo@umn.edu
College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Tom Fisher, Dean
100 Ralph Rapson Hall
89 Church St, SE
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-9068
Fax: 612-625-7525
e-mail: fishe033@tc.umn.edu
ARCC Representative:
J. Stephen Weeks, AIA
Associate Professor, Architecture
Department of Architecture
145 Ralph Rapson Hall
89 Church St, SE
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-2832
Fax: 612-624-5743
e-mail: weeks001@umn.edu
The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) Profile:
The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA), organized in 1989 from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, includes three units: the Department of Architecture, the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Design Center for the American Urban Landscape. CALA has a two-fold educational mission. At the undergraduate level it seeks to educate both pre-professional students and the general university student body about design and the design process, with a focus on its history, meaning modes and methods of representation. At the graduate level, the college offers accredited professional degrees in architecture and landscape architecture, which prepare students to become licensed design professionals.
The College conducts research through the Department of Architecture, the Department of Landscape Architecture, the Design Center for American Urban Landscape, the Landscape Studies Center and its Minnesota Extension Service activities.
Total Research Funding (approximate):
1992-1993 $ 935,000
1993-1994 $ 804,900
1994-1995 $ 601,000
1995-1996 $ 477,000
1996-1997 $ 2,627,000
1997-1998 $ 3,292,817
The Department of Architecture is an academic unit as well as the research unit for investigations at the building scale. Faculty and Research Fellows are involved in work in four areas: Design, History/Theory, Representation, and Technology. The Department is committed to developing the disciplinary knowledge-base for architecture. As a teaching unit, the Department of Architecture offers two degrees: a bachelor of arts (B.A.) with a major in architecture offered through the College of Liberal Arts, and those who have an undergraduate degree and seek to become licensed architects, the professional master of architecture (M.Arch.) degree offered through the Graduate School. The M.Arch. is also available as a post professional degree for students with a professional degree such as the bachelor of architecture (B.Arch.).
The Design Center for American Urban Landscape (DC/AUL) is a research unit within the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) at the University of Minnesota. It was established with a grant from the Dayton Hudson Foundation, support from federal, state and local government agencies, and grants from nonprofit organizations. Under the direction of William Morrish, the Dayton Hudson Land-Grant Chair in Urban Design, and Rip Rapson, Dayton Hudson Senior Fellow, the Design Center develops interactive educational projects located in neighborhoods, communities, that address national urban design and planning issues. Students, professionals and community leaders collaborate and learn about making urban landscapes through working together on these projects. The Design Center's mission is to educate public and private decision makers, professionals and citizens about the value of design as a strategic partner with economic and human interests in the making of community-based development strategies and sustainable urban landscapes.
In addition to its academic role, the Department of Landscape Architecture enfolds the Landscape Studies Center and its Minnesota Extension Service activities. Faculty members and Research Fellows are involved in research informed by ecological understanding. In its teaching mission the department offers three degrees: the pre-professional bachelor of environmental design in landscape architecture (B.E.D.); professional master of landscape architecture (M.L.A.), required to become a registered landscape architect; and master of science (M.S.), a research-oriented degree allowing a specialized focus within landscape architecture.
University:
The University of Minnesota is both the state Land Grant university with a tradition of education and public service, and a major research institution with scholars of national and international reputation. The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) is located on the Twin Cities campus in the heart of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The largest of the four campuses, it is made up of 19 colleges and offers 161 bachelor's degrees, 218 master's degrees, 114 doctoral degrees, and 5 professional degrees.
The University ranks among the top 10 public universities in research funding. A National Science Foundation ranking placed the University sixth among public institutions and ninth overall in research expenditures for 1996. In fiscal year 1996-97 the University received $343 million in contract and grant awards. With more than 47,000 subscriptions to periodicals and journals and 5 million volumes on the Twin Cities campus alone, the University Libraries system is the 17th largest in North America, lending more books and journal articles to other libraries than any other academic library in the nation. The on-line catalog provides computerized access to more than 3.6 million bibliographic records, and it is a gateway to vast sources of electronic information.
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