University at Buffalo (UB)
At the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, we cultivate a culture of opportunity and possibility from the moment you arrive. Here, you’ll have access to a community of makers and doers alongside experiential learning opportunities designed to prepare you to build better futures.
Question everything.
We belong to a legacy of innovation. Inspired by our renegade origins, we continue to foster a culture of creative experimentation on the margins of the status quo. Without fear of failure, we problematize convention: in design, in the field, and in the profession.
Start here. Go anywhere.
What starts here can change the world. Using our own backyard as a testbed, we apply local and international expertise to improve the lives of real people and the places they inhabit, whether around the globe or right here at home.
Think through making.
As a community of makers and doers, our knowledge is more than theoretical. We engage directly with the real materials and processes which construct our built environment. From our world-class fabrication lab to out in the field, we give discovery physical shape.
Build better futures.
In the face of societal and planetary crises, we’re not just imagining a better world. We’re already building it. Balancing optimism with pragmatism, we use the power of architecture and planning to prototype more just, equitable, and resilient futures.