Welcome
From the Director
The School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) resides within the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design (KCEID), created in September 2021 to identify and solve grand challenges where humanity intersects with the physical world. KCEID combines the academic departments and programs previously housed under the College of Engineering and the College of Architecture, Construction and Planning.
Our programs possess a rich and successful history of transforming talented students into successful architects, interior designers, urban and regional planners, and historical preservation professionals. Our undergraduate and graduate degree programs leverage the intersection between theory and practice––between the immediacy of experience and the ideas that sustain prolonged inquiry. Our curriculum offers students an approach that interconnects coursework and translates between scales and places. We believe that our students should learn through participation in a critical dialogue that is both local and global. We also believe in experiential learning by extending the traditional boundaries of education from the classroom, out into the world. Students learn in classroom and studio as well as in community settings and study abroad programs. Our fundamental charge is to prepare the next generation of designers and planners to strategically address the challenges of a dynamic and rapidly evolving built environment.
SA+P resides on UTSA’s Downtown Campus, located in the heart of beautiful and historic San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio—along with Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth—comprises one leg of the Texas Triangle, an exploding megaregion whose population will grow from 15 to 25 million residents in the coming decades. The city of San Antonio, already the seventh-largest city by population in the United States, expects to add 1.1 million residents over the next 25 years, making it one of the fastest-growing large cities in the nation. The culturally diverse and dynamic environment of the city and its region provides fertile soil that helps us to grow the new leaders of the 21st century. Our presence in this rich city and region helps to shape our approach to teaching and learning by supporting inquiries that are both immediate and far-reaching.
We hope you will consider visiting or joining us at the UTSA School of Architecture + Planning!
––Mark A. Blizard, Director
Experience the creativity and dedication of our architecture students
From conceptual explorations to groundbreaking designs, their portfolios showcase a blend of history, innovation, and the immediacy of real-world practice.
School of Architecture + Planning Commitment
In accord with UTSA’s commitment to Inclusion, the School of Architecture + Planning and the Architecture Program remain committed to supporting and contributing to an environment of inclusion. We are committed to inclusion and to fostering a diverse and welcoming teaching-learning environment, curriculum, faculty governance, and hiring practices that value and respect all individuals. In full support of UTSA’s mission as a Hispanic Serving Institution, we value diversity and inclusion in all aspects of university life from the classroom to the profession. UTSA was expressly founded to advance the education of Mexican Americans and other underserved communities, and SA+P embraces our commitment to promoting access for the underserved and underrepresented populations. We will continue to support academic excellence through a community of dialogue, discovery and innovation that embraces the uniqueness of each voice.
