Department of Architecture
Teaching architecture as a socially and environmentally responsive practice
96%
of our 2024 undergraduates are employed or continuing their education within six months of graduation.
Want to get hands-on experience with design building and digital fabrication? Want to prepare for a career while traveling abroad and working directly with industries across the globe? Want to make an impact through socially responsible and environmentally sensitive design? If your answer is yes, then you’ll find the perfect fit with our Department of Architecture.
In the Department of Architecture, we believe that the study of architecture involves questioning assumptions, reflecting on history, and rethinking the future so as to meaningfully contribute to the creation of just societies. That’s why we are committed to the design studio as a space in which conceptual, practical, and theoretical thinking is integrated with the everyday, the material, the technological, and the humane.
Our students graduate with the foundation needed to design buildings for private, public, and institutional use, and the ability to leave an impact on the environment as a licensed architect.
Degree programs
Architecture involves individual and multiple buildings, the spaces within them, and the exterior landscape. In preparing for careers in architecture, our students engage with the multiplicity of social formations in which buildings exist, as well as how environmental effects are integrated through construction, space, material, form, and use. Our degree programs critically examine these complexities, studying the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the built environment.
Iowa State’s undergraduate Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and graduate Master of Architecture (MArch) degree programs are both accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture.
