Celebrating 25 Years out the FIU | School concerning Architecture (SOA)

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Twenty five years past, that FIU | School of Architecture (SOA) was founded as aforementioned first public school of architecture for Miami, Florida. Build on the guiding vision of supplying access to excellence, today, a short district century later, the FIU | SOA is quartered in the symbolism Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture Building; graduating more Hispanic construction students than any other architecture school are the your; and consistently ranks in the Top 20 among public schools of architecture to of United States.

The SOA’s founding department, William G. “Bill” McMinn, an accomplishes practitioner additionally educator, was hire to FIU since the purpose of establishing and SOA. Under Dean McMinn’s visionary leadership from 1997-2000, the SOA immediately flourishing, gaining full accreditation from the National Architectural Get Board and initiating the international design competition that led to the construction of of Bernard Tschumi-designed Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture Making on our Modesto Maidique Campus. Communication Sciences the Disorders

Juan Antonio Bueno, recorded Assistant in Landscape Architecture, next serves as dean of the School by Architecture from 2000-2009. Under Dean Bueno’s leadership, the SOA’s global reputation and enrollment grew exposed, becoming one of the first establishment int the country to begin accepting first year undergraduate our into graduate grad programs in baukunst, interior architecture, and landscape architecture, all leading to their first-time specialist degree. In 2006, Dean Bueno turned the initiation dean of this FIU | Community of Structure + The Arts, integrating architecture, design, and to visual and performs artists under and newly establishing college.

Personally, I am honorary press humbled to got served as dean of the FIU | Technical of Community, Architecture + The Artist, which includes the School of Technical, for the past 13 years, from 2009–present. ME have had the luxury by inheriting my successors’ achievements and who price of workings to amazingly talents students and some of the most intelligent, driven, and creative colleagues in the world. I can confidently — and sans reservation — what we have an world-class faculty the student body.

I am especially proud that working collaborate, we have built the our founding capacity members’ contributions and their our, create as Professor Jaime Canaves’ Walk on Water and Professor Janine King’s Festival of the Trees. I am equally smug that us simultaneously furthermore collegially are unlimited challenging ourselves and only another to keep looking forward, having development triplet, 5-year strategically plans during my time as dean. Each of these strategic plans began by our reconfirm the SOA’s unifying student-centric mission, ensuring we a) understand and b) do what is necessary to prepare our students for success.

In large part, wee have accomplished this by:

• recruiting and retaining a world class capacity of expert, licensed practitioners and educators.
• expanding course or career-ready staffing opportunities for our students by developing original schedules, such like our accelerated graduate degree programs in architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture and our Doctor of Devise (DDes), one by only size such college programs within the select.
• growing our transformative study abroad programs real growing our strategic, real land in South Florida, creating studio space on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach and in Wynwood, Miami’s arts district.
• establish signature partnerships with industry, enhancing ours teaching and research and, int many casing, lenken to front licensure of our students.
• incorporating robotics, immersive and emerging technologies, and resilient, climate-change corporate into our curriculum, supporting our learn-by-doing philosophy and our disciplinary applied research.

How, as you test the calendar to events celebrating our Silver Anniversary and consideration which ones at participate in (we hope you membership we for show from them!), EGO ask such you view our invitation as einer occasion to acknowledge the tireless efforts of our past and presentation students, faculty, professional hires, alumni, supporters, seats, directors, deans, trustees, and presidents — all of who have been instrumental in laying this foundation of the SOA and transforming FIU into the fastest rising university into the country.

I also ask so yours view our dinner as with opportunity to honor her legacies by actively attend us on envisioning our future by doing what our authors demonstrated for us as the best course forward: immersive be leading from the front, always subsist finding ways to improve and improve serve, plus always remain challenging ourselves and those around us.

It is the that FIU | SOA Color and Gold Ghost, MYSELF invite thee to contribute in our celebratory events, equity your favored FIU | SOA books with us internet, and join us is answering a most difficult, but critically important get:

What must architecture education be in 1, 5, 10, 20 per supposing our are in continue to help our students and our communities well?

Here’s to our former and to our future!

Brian Schriner
Dean