Best Architecture Schools

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RECORD presents this year’s rankings—along with related findings about architecture education—compiled by Greenway Group and published by DesignIntelligence.

In this special section, record presents the latest installment of its annual feature “America's Top Architecture Schools,” ranking the top 10 programs, both undergraduate and graduate

As Marc Treib writes in an essay in Joan Ockman's Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America, architecture-school buildings haven't changed much from their early-20th century design roots:

Growing up in Miami, Candace Hoskins was always drawn to the arts. Her interest deepened at Design and Architecture Senior High School, a premier magnet school with a diverse student body. 

As we know, the nature of architectural practice is changing, and architecture education must keep up with the profession. Below are key points that I would suggest be considered by architecture schools, based on research undertaken by DesignIntelligence and the Design Futures Council.

Another DesignIntelligence research project compares the costs of architecture education (“Architecture School Tuition & Fee Report 2011–2012”) at different schools.