Designing the future, one building at a time

The new traditional architecture and urbanism that our curriculum embraces is not a style. It is, more importantly, both a design approach and a cultural choice. It is a choice because it proposes that an accomplished architectural invention should be based on highly refined design ideas received and renewed over time, relayed from person to person and from project to project — each generation producing architectural designs that balance the genius of the individual with the wisdom of received knowledge.

It is also a design approach that depends on a number of vital intellectual virtues and cultural obligations that are regularly tested through criticism-based studio instruction. A civic duty that inserts new projects in existing settings and considers every project as an addition to their urban and natural order.