Message from the Director

On behalf of the Faculty, Staff, and Students, I would like to welcome you to the Architecture Program website. Architecture has a long and distinguished tradition at Georgia Tech dating back to 1908. Today, besides its nationally-ranked professional program in architecture leading to the Master of Architecture degree, the Architecture Program offers an innovative undergraduate major in the discipline as well as both post-professional and research-oriented degree options at the graduate level. The Faculty prides itself on the quality of the design education it provides and is internationally active in areas of both practice and research.
Within the larger goal of preparing future architects to address the social, ecological, economic, and aesthetic conditions of the development and re-development of the contemporary city, the Architecture Program focuses upon two intertwined agendas. The first of these agendas expands around a commitment to the design/redesign of the everyday landscape. Recognizing the relative ineffectiveness of architects to lead in the decisions affecting the design of conventional urban and suburban environments, the Program hopes to prepare future architects better able to creatively, critically, and effectively envision and implement architectural and urban designs that better serve the public interest. A new Master of Science in Urban Design Program is intended to meet the very challenge.
The second agenda concerns bridging between the digital and the physical. As the discipline of architecture increasingly embraces the ephemeral domain of virtual space through electronically mediated design, it is all the more important for architects to grasp the material and technological means by which habitable spaces are both imagined and realized. The Program thus emphasizes the critical exploration of both emerging and traditional media and means in the dialog between architectural technology and representation.
We invite you to learn about our program from this website, to contact us with your questions, and to come for a visit. Comparing by reputation, location, and price, we think you will agree that Architecture education at Georgia Tech is an incomparable value.

Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA
Director of the Architecture Program