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Form, Function, and Four Wins in a Row
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Award-Winning Design Within Environmental Contexts
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DIMENSION Magazine: Fall 2024 Issue Out Now!
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Forging a Future: The Birth of BUILD+
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OpenHOUse on the Move: From Houston to an Innovative Future in Housing
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Retail Ready: Design Students Take Their Skills to Market
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Hines College Student Organizations You Should Know: American Institute of Architecture Students
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Creating Connections: Honors Society Shapes UH Design Students’ Futures
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Hines College Professors Launch Shaping the Gulf Coast of Tomorrow Studio Tackling Regional Climate Challenges
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Planting a Seed of Community and Sustainability
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Illuminating Safety
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Drafting Dreams: Laying a Foundation for Career Success
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Unboxing Gentrification
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“Six”-cessful Designs with Impact
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Transformative Travels Abroad
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Meet Our Alumni Award Winners!
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Explore the Hines College of Architecture and Design
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The Future of Design Technologies in Fabrication and Materials Research Has Arrived
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Your Future Career Starts Here
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From Houston to the World
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Impacting Real People
Prospective Students: Start Your Design Journey Here
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Impact a world driven by design.

The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design offers its students a platform of integrated disciplines—Architecture, Interior Architecture, Industrial Design, and Environmental Design—from which to negotiate the complexities of contemporary practice in a world that is grappling with diminishing economic and natural resources, the realities of post-disaster reconstruction, and at the same time, continued rapid urbanization.
Our programs foster an environment where ideas find form, where practices that are socially equitable and fundamentally ecological establish a model from which to develop Houston’s future, and inform and share design strategies globally.
“We teach with the idea that Houston is our laboratory, challenging students to push the boundaries of architecture and design in this complex and diverse metropolis, and therefore, make a difference in the world.”
- Dean Patricia Belton Oliver, FAIA, DPACSA
By the Numbers
- #4best value architecture school in US (College Factual)
- 8centers and labs advancing research and community outreach
- #31of 467 architecture schools in the US (Architecture Colleges Rankings)
- 1945year the College of Architecture was founded at UH
- #4out of the top 30 Industrial Design programs in the US (College Values Online); #14 in the world (RedDot)
- 30+years as a leader in Design/Build education
- 850+undergraduate and graduate students
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Alumni Spotlight: Mariana Marquez Keymolen (B.S. '21)
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Form, Function, and Four Wins in a Row
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11th Annual Cougar 100 Honors Hines College Alumni
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Award-Winning Design Within Environmental Contexts
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Alumni Spotlight: Justin Taplet (B.Arch. and B.S. '08)
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Alumni Spotlight: Vishwesh Panchal (M.Arch. '16)
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Forging a Future: The Birth of BUILD+
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Retail Ready: Design Students Take Their Skills to Market
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OpenHOUse on the Move: From Houston to an Innovative Future in Housing
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DIMENSION Magazine: Fall 2024 Issue Out Now!
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Alumni Spotlight: Jes Deaver, AIA (M.Arch. '16)
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Hines College Student Organizations You Should Know: American Institute of Architecture Students
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Creating Connections: Honors Society Shapes UH Design Students’ Futures
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Alumni Spotlight: Kadmiel Konan (B.S. '23)
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Call and Response Provides Authentic Collaboration Among the Arts
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Alumni Spotlight: Jessica Valdez (B.Arch. '14)
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Hines College Professors Launch Shaping the Gulf Coast of Tomorrow Studio Tackling Regional Climate Challenges
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Planting a Seed of Community and Sustainability
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Illuminating Safety
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Drafting Dreams: Laying a Foundation for Career Success
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Unboxing Gentrification
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“Six”-cessful Designs with Impact
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Alumni Spotlight: Mariel Piña (B.S. '11)
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Transformative Travels Abroad
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Meet Our Alumni Award Winners!
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Imagining a Plan to Power Up Houston’s Near Northside Community
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New On Board: New Leadership Council Members Advance Key Goals
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The Hines College Annual Report is Now Available!
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New Faculty Shaping College Curriculum
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Hines College Professor Receives Texas Society of Architects Educator Award