CEACS, Department of Architecture

Accreditation

Howard University offers the following NAAB-accredited degree:
Bachelor of Architecture - professional degree program that requires five years of study and is fully accredited by the National Architecture Accreditation Board. The degree meets the educational requirements for professional registration. The professional Bachelor of Architecture was last visited in March 2006 and was re-accredited for the full six year term. The program was also reviewed in July 2009 for a NAAB focused review. The next accredidation review visit for the architecture program: 2012

The School is a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architectue.

Student Projects

Lists of all Architecture course descriptions are available on separate pages.

The Next Accreditation Review Visit for the Architecture Program: 2012

The primary aim is to stress the importance of design as a method of inquiry and resolution. Students are taught to solve architectural problems through the exploration of original and promising architectural expressions and ideas.

The Department believes that architecture and design is essentially a rigorous act of creativity, research and scholarship and encourages a pluralistic intellectual environment in which diverse ideas can be investigated and tested.

Student Projects

The studio provides an ongoing forum for discourse at all levels of the curriculum. The studio focuses curriculum activities including issues of social and human behavior and concern, response to the physical environment, ethical responsibility for ecologically sustainable design and the cultural context in which architecture is developed.

Statement of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)

"In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes two types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture and the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.

Master's degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.”

NAAB and procedures

-The 2009 NAAB Conditions for Accreditation here

-The 2010 NAAB Procedures for Accreditation can be found here

Annual Report and Letters

-Download 2005 Architecture Program Report here

-Download 2011 NAAB Accredidation Report here and Supplement information can be found here

-Download 2007 Visiting Team Report here

-Download 2007 Focus Team Report here

-Download NCARB ARE Pass Rates here

Collateral Organizations

ACSA - American Collegiate Schools of Architecture

AIA - American Institute of Architects

AIAS - American Institute of Architecture Students

NCARB - National Council of Architectural Registration Boards

NOMA - National Organization of Minority Architects