UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA


 COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED ARTS
 GENERAL STATEMENT

 It is the purpose of the College of Architecture and Allied Arts to improve man's
physical environment and enrich his life through education in architecture and the
arts. To that end, the College provides professional programs of study for students in
the College of Architecture and the Allied Arts, courses in architecture and the arts for
students in other colleges of the University, and appropriate services to the citizens of
Florida in general.
 Instruction in architecture was begun at the University of Florida upon the estab-
lishment of a School of Architecture by the late Rudolph Weaver, F.A.I.A., in 1925.
A program in painting was added in 1929, and in the same year the School became an
independent unit of the University known as the School of Architecture and Allied
Arts. Work in commercial art was begun in 1932, in landscape architecture in 1933,
and in building construction in 1935. In 1948 programs in interior design and in crafts
were added, and the name of the School was changed to the College of Architecture
and Allied Arts. In 1951 a program in costume design was instituted.

 PROFESSIONAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS

 The College of Architecture and Allied Arts offers professional programs of study
leading to appropriate undergraduate degrees in Architecture, Building Construction,
Commercial Art, Costume Design, Crafts, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and
Painting and Drawing. Each program is devised with the intention of giving thorough
training in the fundamentals of the profession chosen, and the application of theory to
practice is one of the chief teaching principles. Professional programs at the graduate
level are offered in Architecture, in Building Construction, and in Art.
 The College offers courses to students in other colleges of the University who wish
to broaden their cultural background in the arts. General courses in the Department
of Architecture and in the Department of Art are open to all students in the Uni-
versity, and certain upper division courses in the Department of Art and in the Depart-
ment of Interior Design require no prerequisite training.

 CENTER OF THE ARTS

 Educational and illustrative exhibitions of work in architecture and the arts are a
major contribution of the College to the University and to the State. A beginning has
been made of a great teaching, research, and public service center known as the Center
of the Arts in which students, faculty, and the general public can study examples of
outstanding contemporary work in painting, industrial design, furniture, crafts, com-
munity planning, architecture, and the other arts.

 BUREAU OF ARCHITECTURAL AND COMMUNITY RESEARCH

 The College of Architecture and Allied Arts has established a Bureau of Architec-
tural and Community Research to conduct and to coordinate research in those fields
which concern the design of shelter and environment for all kinds of human activity.
The Bureau provides an opportunity for graduate students and for faculty members to
engage in research in architecture and in community planning, and to cooperate ef-
fectively in research projects with other departments of the University.