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The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University was established in 1871 as the School of Architecture, offering the first four-year course of study in architecture in the United States. It is currently the smallest of the seven undergraduate colleges and schools, with an undergraduate enrollment of 547 and a faculty over 60.•• The college is divided into three departments: Architecture, Art and City and Regional Planning and also maintains a close relationship with the Department of Landscape Architecture, housed in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Cornell University's architecture department is one of the world's most highly regarded and prestigious schools of architecture and is the only department in the Ivy League to offer the Bachelors of Architecture degree. The Almanac of Architecture and Design along with Design Intelligence has consistently ranked Cornell's architecture program as number one in the nation. The department has one of the highest endowments of any architecture program, including a 20 million dollar endowment by Cayuga County resident Ruth Price Thomas in 2002. Among its alumni are such pre-eminent architects as Richard Meier, B.Arch. '56, designer of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and Peter Eisenman, B.Arch, '55, founder of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.
Facilities The college occupies four buildings on the northern end of the Arts Quad. Located in Sibley Hall are the Urban and Regional Studies Department, the Architecture Departments, the Rome Program, and the Office of the Dean. The Dome of Sibley Hall holds the Fine Art Library. The Green Dragon Cafe and student lounge can be found in the basement. Tjaden Hall is used by the Department of Fine Arts. It houses painting, drawing, photography, and lithography studios. It also contains the art department main office and faculty offices. Rand Hall is home to studios and classrooms of the Department of Architecture. In the mid to late 2000s, Rand Hall is expected to be incorporated into Milstein Hall, a new building to be designed by award-winning architect Rem Koolhaas. Degrees Undergraduate Graduate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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