Architecture
The Architecture major provides a foundational education in the traditional art of building by way of recovering academic traditions of the Renaissance-era Accademia del Disegno in Florence, the Baroque-era Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and, later, the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Many of the methods and philosophies of these programs continue to inspire and guide as we distinguish our architectural studies from those focused on merely utilitarian, technical, or ideological pursuits.
The Five Orders of Architecture live on in their timeless flexibility for manifesting a coherent ‘language’ of storytelling in any built work worthy to be called a classic. They do so by preserving timeless lessons in built form that reveal the truths about our relationships with God, our families, our communities, and our polis.