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Welcome

The Architecture program at ASU sits within the Design School (TDS), which sits within the Herberger Institute for the Design and Arts (HIDA). Our program is a “4+2,” meaning the undergraduate leads to a non-professional degree and the twoyear graduate MArch is our accredited degree. In the past three years we have grown from around 350 students and will have over 1000 in the next academic year. This growth is the result of a complete redesign of the program to align more closely with the mission of ASU:

ASU IS A COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY, MEASURED NOT BY WHOM WE EXCLUDE, BUT RATHER BY WHOM WE INCLUDE AND HOW THEY SUCCEED; ADVANCING RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY OF PUBLIC VALUE; AND ASSUMING FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND OVERALL HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITIES IT SERVES.

To be radically inclusive means that we cannot teach the way we were taught. We need to rethink how we organize studio, how we schedule classes, how we use technology, and how we build the culture of our school. There is the often-repeated story of a dean standing in front of a first-year class who asks the students to “look to your left, look to your right.” The dean then continues to say, “they will not be here when you graduate.” We have shifted this message of failure, to be one of success. In the first-year lecture, students are again asked to look to their colleagues, but are now asked to help them to be there when they graduate.

This catalog is the result of collective work of almost 1000 people. I would like to thank all of our students, faculty, and staff for your tremendous work, perspective, and resiliency over the past months. It is amazing to see all you have accomplished!

MARC J NEVEU, PHD Architecture Program Head