The school’s facilities form a small campus along Lake Osceola. Marion Manley, the first registered female architect in South Florida, designed the six buildings of the school in 1947 as part of a compound built to house the returning veterans of World War II. The buildings reflect an association with the work of the Bauhaus that Walter Gropius was advocating at Harvard during the same period. The historical role of the buildings was a significant consideration during Professor Jan Hochstim’s 1983 renovations. Professor Hochstim transformed the student apartments into the offices, studios and classrooms of the School of Architecture. Professor Gary Greenan, a landscape architect, designed the Lake Osceola courtyard and advised on the planting of the administrative quadrangle and green that act as gathering places for the activities of the school. The School of Architecture is committed to the development of new facilities including a lecture hall, review hall and library. A funding campaign has begun for the addition of new buildings to provide space for large gatherings as well as the continued maintenance of the campus and architectural history.

Studios and Faculty Offices:  Two major buildings form the primary studio spaces with large open studios for the first and second years. Smaller office-like studios, adjacent to faculty offices, ensure close collaboration among faculty and students. Room and studio assignments are organized in response to student needs and the studios are accessible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Each student is assigned a work station and given a key to the designated studio. All studios are wired so students may connect personal computers.

Classrooms:  Two classrooms serve the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, one on the top floor of the administrative building, and a multimedia room on the third floor above the Computing Laboratory. The School utilizes classroom space in Eaton Residential College, immediately adjacent to the studios and in the Center for Urban and Community Design. Evening lectures are held in the schools as well as other locations on campus including the Lowe Art Museum or the Wilder Auditorium in the James L. Knight Physics building to accommodate larger numbers of students, faculty, alumni and professionals attending.

Review Spaces:  Large review spaces on the second and third floors of the core studio building hold most of the reviews. The ground floor exhibition gallery hosts reviews between exhibits. The faculty has also utilized space on campus in Eaton Residential College, the Baptist Campus Ministry and the Whitten Student Union as well as off-site reviews in charrette locations and, most recently, in Key West.

Illustration: South Florida Map by Rosario Marquardt