ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN PROGRAMS

Combine your creativity and problem-solving skills to transform the world with good design in UT’s architecture and design programs. In this study area, you might pursue architecture, graphic design, sustainable landscape design, or interior architecture. And as a Volunteer you’ll have access to top technologies (like 3D printers and robotics) and opportunities to work alongside your professors in the real world.

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What you can do with a degree from an architecture and design program:

Architecture careers

Architectural conservatory

Building inspection

Construction management

Journalism

Real estate

Research

Graphic design careers

Advertising

Animation

Book, magazine, or newspaper design

Public art

Video games

Website design

Landscape design careers

Community and neighborhood design

Permaculture design

Streetscapes and transportation

Urban design

Waterfront development

Zoological park design

Interior architecture careers

Elder design

Ergonomic design

Green design

Renovator

Research and ethnographic design

Set design

Potential employers

Arenas

Churches

Civic spaces (airports, schools)

Developers

Firms

Government

Land management trusts

Medical offices

Museums

Residential properties

Restaurants

Stores, businesses, corporations, and nonprofit organizations

Studying at UT

Unrivaled academics

As a student in an architecture and design program, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from award-winning professors, published authors, Fulbright scholars, and AIA Fellows. Our educators believe in collaboration, and you’ll work with students across all programs—architecture, graphic design, interior architecture, and landscape architecture—to learn from each other.

A successful future

We’ll prepare you for what follows after graduation. In our Fab Lab, you’ll have your very own workspace and access to laser cutters, CNC routers, advanced robotics, 3D printers, and more.

Our Design/Build Program allows students the chance to gain hands-on experience. Working as a team, students design, collect data, and use their knowledge to build structures that benefit local and international communities.

At the Institute for Smart Structures, students work alongside faculty and researchers from UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve the quality of architecture through sustainability, energy, health and safety, and economy.

Learn around the world

Study abroad, or off-campus study, is required for undergraduate architecture and design students. Students have studied across the United States and abroad. You might study in Japan, where you’ll visit the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum and tour some of Tokyo’s most iconic buildings. Maybe you’ll go to Finland, where you’ll study how architecture and design plays a role in the Finnish national cultural identity.

Where you’ll study

As a student in the College of Architecture and Design, you’ll find programs like sustainable design and urbanism. Undergraduate students can pursue a degree in landscape design and graduate students can pursue a degree in landscape architecture through a partnership with the Herbert College of Agriculture. In the College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies, you could earn a certificate in game craft.

College of Architecture and Design

Herbert College of Agriculture

College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies