Texas Tech University College of Architecture is the college of

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

Texas Tech University Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sy ...

Lubbock Lubbock ( ) is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northw ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

. The architecture program has existed at Texas Tech University since 1927. Texas Tech's Master of Architecture is a professional degree and it is accredited by the

National Architectural Accrediting Board The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), established in 1940, is the oldest accrediting agency for architectural education in the United States. The NAAB accredits professional degrees in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. r ...

(NAAB). On November 30, 2022, the school announced it would be named the Huckabee College of Architecture.

History

Texas Tech University first offered architecture education in 1927 within the College of Engineering. The emphasis of the program was advanced construction and mechanical equipment of buildings. Four years later the architecture program transformed into the Department of Architecture and Allied Arts and it emphasis expanded from engineering and structures to design. In 1933, the department offered its first Bachelor of Architecture degree, a program that the next year would be expanded to a five-year degree. By 1957 the program was accredited with the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and has been continuously accredited since then. In 1971 the department moved to its current building and in 1975 the board of regents designated the architecture program as the Division of Architecture. Eleven years later, the division of architecture would become an independent college. The State Coordinating Board first approved the program's Master of Architecture degree in 1985, and in 1992 the Master of Architecture professional degree program was awarded a full five-year accreditation. The College of Architecture became the first architecture education program to offer a 173 credit hour Master of Architecture professional degree in 1996. Currently, the Huckabee College of Architecture offers a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. Arch) consists of 124 credit hours of undergraduate courses. The M.Arch program is a 4 + 2-year program (60 hours of graduate coursework). This is a professional degree and graduates can sit for their licensing exam (ARE).

Notable people

Former students

Faculty

Lecture Series

"The Texas Tech Huckabee College of Architecture Lecture Series aims to create and explore a discourse on topics ranging from the built environment, creative and innovative scholarship, to current issues taking place in our society. The series features lectures from architects, theorists, scholars, and educators exploring, expanding, and uncovering new ground for the discipline of Architecture. TTU CoA Lectures Series is supported by the Dean's Funds for Excellence."

2021-2022

Lubbock Lecturers * Kuo Pao Lian and Pavlina Ilieva, co-founders of PI.KL * Dawn Finley, founding principal of Interloop—Architecture, Professor of Architecture and the Director of Graduate Studies at

Rice University School of Architecture Rice School of Architecture, also referred to as ''Rice Architecture'', is a small undergraduate and graduate institution located within the international research university, Rice University in Houston, Texas. The graduate and undergraduate progr ...

* Gary Cunningham, founder and president of Cunningham Architects * Neeraj Bhatia, founder of The Open Workshop * Charles L. Davis II, Associate Professor of Architectural History and Criticism at the University at Buffalo * Viola Ago, director MIRACLES Architecture, School of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA * Chris Cornelius, founding principal of studio:indigenous and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico * Ted Flato, Founding Partner at Lake, Flato Architects El Paso Lecturers * Paola Aguirre, founder of Borderless * Jorge Ambrosi and Gabriela Etchegaray, founders AMBROSI , ETCHEGARAY, Adjunct Professors at GSAPP, Columbia University * Anna Puigjaner, co-founder MAIO, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia GSAPP * Alvin Huang, founder, SDA , Synthesis Design + Architecture, Director and Associate Professor at USC Architecture * Dana Cupkova, co-Founder & design director, EPIPHYTE Lab, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

2020-2021

* Germane Barnes, Assistant Professor and the Director of The Community, Housing & Identity Lab at the University of Miami * Shawhin Roudbari, Assistant Professor Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder; Member of Dissent by Design * Sekou Cooke, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Syracuse University * Alice Tseng, Department Chair and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University * Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union * Fernanda Canales, founder Fernanda Canales Arquitectura * Kathryn Dean, founder, Dean/Wolf Architects * V. Mitch McEwen, founding principal at Atelier Office, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Princeton University * Molly Wright Steenson, Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts & Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University * Esra Akcan, Michael McCarthy Professor in the Department of Architecture,Director of IES at the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. * Billie Tsien, co-founder

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (also known as Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects , Partners) are a husband-and-wife architectural firm founded in 1986, based in New York. Williams and Tsien began working together in 1977. Their studio focu ...

,Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice, Yale Architecture * Hsinming Fung, principal and co-founder, Hodgetts + Fung, Professor, Sci_Arc Design Studio

2019-2020

Lubbock Lecturers * Dora Epstein Jones, Texas Tech University College of Architecture * José Aragüez, Columbia GSAPP * Maria Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolen, co-founder of estudio_entresitio, Associate Professor of Architecture, NJIT *

Thom Mayne Thom Mayne (born January 19, 1944) is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities po ...

, founding partner,

Morphosis Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary architectural and design practice based in Los Angeles and New York City. History The firm was informally founded in 1972 by Michael Brickler, Thom Mayne, Livio Santini and James Stafford. Michael Rot ...

* Leslie Lok & Sassa Sisvkoic, co founders at HANNAH, Assistant Professors, Cornell University * Andrew Zago, principal at Zago Architecture, Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago * Noémie Despland-Lichtert and Brendan Shea, co-founders Roundhouse Platform * Neil Spiller, founding Director of the AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) Group, Editor of AD * Jeffrey S. Nesbit, founding director of the research group Grounding Design El Paso Lecturers * Errol Barron, founding partner of Errol Barron/Michael Toups Architects, Professor of Architecture at

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...

Tatiana Bilbao Tatiana Bilbao Spamer (born 1972) is a Mexican architect whose works often merged geometry with nature. Her practice focuses on sustainable design and social housing. She founded Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO in 2004 and has completed projects in China ...

, founder and principal, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio * Ila Berman, Elwood R. Quesada Professor in Architecture, University of Virginia

2018-2019

Lubbock Lecturers *

Chip Lord Chip Lord is an American media artist and Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz and residing in San Francisco. He is best known for his work with the alternative architecture and media collective known as Ant Farm, which he co-founded with Doug Michels ...

* Neyran Turan, partner at NEMESTUDIO and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the UC-Berkeley *

Alejandro Zaera-Polo Alejandro Zaera Polo is a Spanish architect, theorist and founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). He was formerly dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture and of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. ...

, principal at AZPML * Jonathan Solomon, Director of Architecture, Interior Architecture & Designed Objects School of the Art Institute of Chicago * Gabriela Carrillo, principal at TALLER * Cade Hayes & Jesus Robles, Jr., founders of DUST El Paso Lecturers * Kathryn Dean, founder, Dean/Wolf Architects *

Andrés Jaque Andrés Jaque is an architect, writer and curator. In 2016, he was awarded with the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. In 2014, he won the Silver Lion to the Best Project at the 14th Venice Biennale. His work explores ...

, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia GSAPP * Felipe Correa, Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia *

Sarah Whiting Sarah M. Whiting (born 1964) is an American architect, critic, and educator. Whiting is currently Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in addition to being a founding partner o ...

, founder of WW, Dean of Rice University School of Architecture * Luis Carranza, Professor at Roger Williams University * René Davids, Davids Killory Architecture, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley

2017-2018

Lubbock Lecturers * Marlon Blackwell * Jose Castillo, founder and principal of A, 911 * Carlos Jiménez, Carlos Jiménez Studio *

Merrill Elam Merrill Elam is an American architect and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a principal with Mack Scogin in Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects where their work spans between buildings, interiors, planning, graphics and exhibition desig ...

, principal of Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects * Hillary Sample & Michael Meredith, principals MOS Architects *

Keller Easterling Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and professor. She is Enid Storm Dwyer Professor and Director of the MED Program at Yale University. Biography She earned both her B.A. and M.Arch from Princeton University School of ...

, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor and Director of the MED Program at Yale University *

Preston Scott Cohen Preston Scott Cohen is a professor of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). In 2004, he established a partnership with two registered architects, Amit Nemlich and Gilles Quintal, and became the Design Principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. base ...

* Meredith Miller and Ellie Abrons * Sharon Johnston, Johnston Marklee & Associates * Cristiane Muniz, Una Arquitetos * Neeraj Bhatia El Paso Lecturers * Frida Escobedo * Alvaro Rodriguez * Ronald Rael & Virginia San Fratello

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* {{Authority control Architecture schools in Texas Universities and colleges established in 1927

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

1927 establishments in Texas