Design at the University of Houston's College of Architecture

Across its over 50-year history, the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston has remained focused on design as the fundamental activity of our discipline. Today the college is growing in many ways—its student body is simultaneously becoming larger and more diverse, and average test scores for applicants accepted to its programs have risen across the last several years. The college now houses Texas’s first program in industrial design (product design). This new degree program serves to further distinguish the college from competing programs and will add faculty expertise in areas important to the future, such as sustainability, advanced materials, human factors, advanced computing in design, and methods of industrialized production.

We seek applicants to our programs who possess mechanical inventiveness, aesthetic awareness, creativity, commitment, and initiative contributing to their potential to become leaders in design. We strive to produce graduates who question deeply and who are skilled in their craft, who can utilize advanced technology and advanced methods of industrialized production, who understand and respect the power of design to shape our lives, and who are equipped to use their design skills to be effective in the world.

As a public college of architecture located in a major U.S. urban setting, we are able to take advantage of the numerous cultural, professional, and industrial resources of the fourth largest American city. With its unique form and vitality, Houston provides an exceptional laboratory for exploring problems and potentials of contemporary society.





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