Dynamic. Vibrant. Innovative.
We are a vibrant, engaging school that inspires and challenges our students. We help grow your knowledge in a tutoring culture that is productive, curious, and on the pulse of today’s ever-developing world.
In response to COVID-19 and its impact on campus, the School of Architecture will implement new hours and change access to buildings. View the Digital Fabrication Lab procedures.
In-person Office Hours*
*excluding holidays
Through April 1-July 2
Wed.-Thurs. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
After July 2
Mon.-Thurs: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Staff are also working remotely and are always available via email or phone during regular work hours (Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Upcoming Events
Welcome to the School of Architecture!
The UNLV School of Architecture (SoA) is renowned for its innovative research, teaching, and outreach that is critically informed, academically rigorous, design-led, and interdisciplinary.
We are a vibrant, engaging school that inspires and challenges our students. We help grow your knowledge in a tutoring culture that is productive, curious, and on the pulse of today’s ever-developing world.
We offer accredited programs in three disciplines:
- Architecture
- Landscape Architecture
- Interior Architecture and Design
We are based in the centre of Las Vegas, a unique and fast-growing city located in the Mojave Desert, Southern Nevada. We capitalize on this unique regional location to improve the human condition through teaching, research, and service.
Billboard Yearbook
Over the last 25 years, the School of Architecture has grown up alongside the design professions in Las Vegas, Southern Nevada, and the American Southwest. Las Vegas has always been seen as a unique laboratory and field of experimentation for new ideas of architecture and interior design.
On 360 pages, BILLBOARD provides an introduction to the various programs of teaching and impactful research that made up the last year. The BILLBOARD book presents countless projects, meaningful initiatives and programs, and demonstrates the school’s unique and on-going evolution.
The UNLV School of Architecture (SoA) is renowned for its innovative research, teaching, and outreach that is critically informed, academically rigorous, design-led, and interdisciplinary.
The School plays a crucial role in Nevada: it offers the state’s only professional degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Architecture & Design.
We are a vibrant, engaging school that inspires and challenges our students. We help grow your knowledge in a tutoring culture that is productive, curious, and on the pulse of today’s ever-developing world.
UNLV has been categorized as R1-University “very high research activity” (Carnegie classification), the gold standard for higher education institutions, and UNLV is one of just 120 universities with the distinction, out of the approximately 4,000 universities and colleges in the USA.
Being a Carnegie R1 university elevates our efforts to further support our outstanding faculty and students, recruit new members to our university, and power even more research, economic development, and creative activities.
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Multidisciplinary student team overcame 2020 pandemic obstacles and competition delays to win first in the operations and presentation categories, and second place for innovation and energy.
From the Solar Decathlon to student scholarships, Commercial Roofers helps students rise to demands of challenging field.
After pandemic delays, about 50 students on Team Las Vegas gear up for UNLV's third showdown in the international Solar Decathlon sustainable homebuilding competition.
This year, the university honors both 2020 and 2021 recipients - and the line-up of Las Vergas luminaries couldn't be brighter!
Architecture on the Move
In The News
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May. 3, 2021 | Las Vegas Sun
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May. 3, 2021 | Vegas Inc
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Apr. 27, 2021 | Las Vegas Business Press
Accomplishments
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Dec. 10, 2020
The School of Architecture is one of the schools in the College of Fine Arts.
