Barnard College

The Architecture Program at Barnard College, in conjunction with Columbia University, offers a Bachelor of Arts degree that provides a strong foundation in architectural studies within a liberal arts framework. The curriculum explores the relationship between form, space, program, materials, and media in relation to human life and thought. Students engage in the ongoing shaping of knowledge about the built environment and learn to see architecture as a form of cultural production. The program stresses disciplinary-specific tools, methods, terms, and critiques, encouraging students to treat architecture as a form of research and speculation that complements the liberal arts mission of expansive thinking. Students interested in a professional degree can pursue graduate programs after completing their undergraduate studies. Barnard College serves as the administrative location for all undergraduate architecture studies at Columbia University and its partner institutions.