We work with our hands, heads, and hearts to change the world one place at a time.
– CAPPA vision
On October 9, 2015, we launched the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) at UTA, uniting the School of Architecture with the School of Urban and Public Affairs. We are now all together – 1,000 strong – in a newly-renovated building that also houses our library, gallery, auditorium, and a new Digital Fabrication Lab. At our Arlington Urban Design Center, located in City Hall, students have the opportunity to lend their talents to designing and planning Arlington. Through the Institute for Urban Studies, workshops, and studios, many of our students are also deeply engaged in projects on Dallas, Fort Worth and other cities in the region (see article by Dr. Shima Hamidi).
Over the past year, we have initiated a new Architectural Engineering degree program with the College of Engineering and have partnered with the College of Business to reinvigorate the Masters degree in Real Estate (MSRE). We have also started a Design Build Studio, called Parallel Construction, in which students designed an urban farm on land provided by First Baptist Church just one block east of campus.
When the raised beds, chicken coops and shade structures are installed on site this summer, it will become an outdoor classroom for students in a new Urban Farming certificate and its harvest will supply a farm-to-table café on the courtyard of our building. Other new programs we are introducing are Historic Preservation & Adaptive Reuse and Urban Design.
We have been strengthening partnerships with the professions through a Professional Development Program and look forward to further engaging the professional real estate development community.
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