Texas Tech University College of Architecture is the college of architecture at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The architecture program has existed at Texas Tech University since 1927.[4] Texas Tech's Master of Architecture is a professional degree and it is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).[5] On November 30, 2022, the school announced it would be named the Huckabee College of Architecture.[6]
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.[4]
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.[4]
Currently, the Huckabee College of Architecture offers a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. Arch) consists of 124 credit hours of undergraduate courses.[7] The M.Arch program is a 4 + 2-year program (60 hours of graduate coursework).[8] This is a professional degree and graduates can sit for their licensing exam (ARE).[5]
"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."[9]
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
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
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.
