School of Architecture

About

Architecture was created in 1873, as one of two new departments within the College of Fine Arts by George Comfort Fisk The department initially offered a four-year program leading to a bachelor of architecture degree, the first program of its kind in the country.

In 1934, a fifth year was added to the curriculum in the form of a thesis, which included construction drawings and specifications, with 184 credits required for graduation. In 1937 a graduate program in urban planning and research was established.
The school became a separate entity from the College of Fine Arts in 1957.
In 1980 the Florence program was established. This program continues to play a strategic role between the third and fifth years of ndergraduate study.
In 2007, the Syracuse Architecture London program was launched at the University’s Farraday Center and, in 2009, the Syracuse Architecture program in New York City was introduced at a new studio space in mid-town Manhattan.
In 2005, UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research and Real Estate was created within the School as a resource for the city, campus and region, providing a means by which architects, faculty, and students worked actual projects in Syracuse.

History

The School of Architecture was established originally as the Department of Architecture within the College of Fine Arts in 1882. The College of Fine Arts was dissolved in 1945 and the Department of Architecture was converted into the School of Architecture