Welcome. We hope you find our web site helpful in understanding our programs, faculty, courses, and resources. Words, however, are not always enough. We urge you to plan a visit, if possible, if you are considering applying to the College. You may have noticed that we have changed our name to the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, as well as adding many new faculty members and a new degree program, the Master of Urban Design.

Taubman College is dedicated to the professional education of architects, urban planners, and urban designers. Internationally recognized research and advanced degrees are offered through two highly-respected doctoral programs. There is also an undergraduate pre-professional Bachelor of Science program in architecture. We are proud to be a part of one of the premiere institutions of higher education and research in the world. The University of Michigan is a major international seat of learning, with multiple centers of academic excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, and cutting edge research and scholarship in every academic field.

The College is committed to enduring values and emerging imperatives. There is a long and venerable tradition of design, scholarship, community service, and research. In many ways architectural research, especially in building technology, was founded at the University of Michigan at the middle of the last century. The interest in tectonics is matched by an equally strong interest in urbanism from both an urban planning and urban design perspective. Issues that compel us include aesthetics, sustainability, environmental justice, global equity, and community design and planning, especially in nearby Detroit.

The student body and faculty of the College are composed of women and men of diverse backgrounds, from different regions of the state, the nation, and the world, from different cultures and religions, different races, ethnic groups, and sexual orientations. We encourage and support lively inquiry and discourse on all issues that affect the built environment. Together we work to maintain an atmosphere that is simultaneously critical and tolerant, competitive and friendly, serious and fun.

We try to teach, research, practice, and serve in ways that have true consequence to the community, the region, society, and the world. We hope you will consider joining us and adding your voice to this quest.

Douglas S. Kelbaugh
Dean

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