The School enjoys many informal contacts with educational institutions and professionals abroad, particularly in South and Central America, through the efforts of certain key faculty--Profs. Stephen Jacobs and Eugene Cizek--and our strong alumni base in certain areas. Topic areas usually center around issues in preservation and urban design.
Our contacts with Paris and Barcelona are particularly strong currently, with key faculty from these cities now associated with the School.
The School's immediate goal is to develop further our ties with Latin America, in order to facilitate student recruitment (a natural affinity for us) and student/faculty exchange. As well, we hope to strengthen our ties and opportunities in Paris, through the upcoming Summer Program.
Our strategies to date have centered around the efforts of Prof. Jacobs in Mexico City (a Mellon Grant in 1993 enabled him to study opportunities in that city, and develop contacts). Should Prof. Jacobs be successful in his application for a Fulbright Visiting Professorship in Bolivia, we hope to send him on an Introduction/Recruitment circuit when he's down there.
As well, we have applied for a Fulbright Professorship to join our faculty next year, and we are actively seeking a noted architect from Mexico City to serve as our honorary Davis Critic and visit with us this Spring 1995 for special design instruction.
We have suspended our Venice and Greece programs for one year, so as to enhance student interest in these new program areas.
Courses:
We need more coursework concerning areas other than Western Europe. We hope to soon develop courses in Latin American urbanism, and a survey of Latin American architectural history, to be offered within our normal curriculum.
To greatly expand beyond our current course offerings should involve finding more students from foreign areas, since we do not desire to further siphon off too greatly our current student body to foreign programs.
We would, however, be interested in suggestions for other programs and activities that might enhance the University's and our mission.
Our new summer programs in Mexico City and Barcelona/Paris will occur in Summer 1995.
II. CURRENT STRENGTHS, GOALS AND STRATEGIES
The School's strengths are in our traditional ties with Latin American architectural studies, and with the natural historical tradition of architectural form, and education, in western Europe. Special attentions at the moment, in terms of other faculty and their interests, are on Italy, France, Spain, and to a lesser extent, Russia and England.
III. PROGRESS TO DATE
As described above, we are beginning to develop stronger ties in our target areas.
IV. CURRENT INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES AND COURSES
Programs:
Greece
Barcelona/Paris
Mexico City
V. FACULTY
Stephen Jacobs
VI. PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
The semester exchange program with the University of Belgrano will exchange approximately two students from each university for one semester of study. Participating students will pay tuition to their home institution. We hope to expand this program into greater numbers, and faculty exchange, if all goes well.
VII. TIME FRAME FOR PROPOSED NEW PROGRAMS
It is anticipated that the exchange program with the University of Belgrano will begin operation in Fall 1995.
VIII. CONCLUSION
The School of Architecture presently offers numerous opportunities for its students to study abroad. The new program in Argentina will further develop these opportunities and new programs will be developed as opportunities arise.