Nama institusi

Washington University In St Louis

Jumlah mahasiswa

11396

Alamat kontak untuk informasi internasional

One Brookings Drive
ST LOUIS 63130

Nama tempat/fakultas

Sam Fox School of design and Visual Arts, College of Architecture

Alamat

Campus Box 1079
1 Brookings Drive
ST LOUIS
Missouri
63130

Uraian Tempat

Architectural education is dangerous. It changes your mind. This is because it also changes the world. It does so indirectly of course through the hands of the students who become professionals that imagine, envision, design, and build the environment that we live in. While we might say that ultimately all education does this, few other disciplines are charged with this expectation. The first century Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Polio said an architect “must be armed with many branches of knowledge: drawing, geometry, history, philosophy, music, medicine, know the opinions of jurists, and astronomy,“ Given this list it is understandable why architectural education is sometimes described as one of the last truly liberal arts educations in increasingly specialized university curricula. Given the difficulty of becoming proficient in all of these areas it explains the generally held belief that architectural education is a lifelong pursuit. Yet despite this daunting trajectory over 125 undergraduate and graduate students from all over the world enter the Washington University College and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design each year with aspirations of changing the world. And over the distinguished 100-year history of the program, they have.

Nomor telepon

+1 314 935 6200

Apakah di lokasi ini tersedia akomodasi?

Ya

Informasi mengenai akomodasi

Summer School housing is located in the Millbrook apartments only in Building 1. Students must maintain enrolment in at least one summer school course to live in Summer School housing. Summer school housing will be limited in summer 2008 due to construction on campus and will be assigned on a first come basis. If student request a double room but do not request a roommate then one will be assigned to them at random and according to gender. All bedrooms in each apartment will be assigned to summer students at random by the Office of Summer Programs and Conference Services. Assignments will be according to gender and no mix gender apartments will be available.