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The UF Department of Architecture maintains diverse facilities and resources to help you get the most out of your graduate education in architecture. Housed in the Architecture Building and Fine Arts Building C on the University of Florida campus, significant highlights include:
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Studios: The UF Department of Architecture's studios are open to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week - a convenience uncommon in many architecture schools. Studio spaces open to views of the campus, nearby ponds and the atrium courtyard within the Architecture Building itself, creating a pleasant working environment in which you can pursue design excellence.
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Gallery: The UF College of Architecture Gallery brings you into touch with the pulse of the school and the world of design and construction. It hosts regular displays of student projects, so you can sample the creative energy and direction generated by fellow students in various programs. It also showcases traveling exhibitions of significant works from noteworthy architects past and present, providing you with exposure to historical precedents and contemporary currents in the field. Past features have included Berlin: Projects from the IBA, Student Work from the Moscow Institute of Architecture, The Modern Chair and retrospectives of such design luminaries as Tadao Ando, Luis Barragan and Alvaro Siza.
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Library: The UF Architecture & Fine Arts Library gives you access to
85,000 bound volumes, 640 periodicals, 200 videotapes and 40,000 microforms focusing on the history, theory and practice of architecture, art, graphic design and building construction. It also features online linkage to the Avery Index, computer and laser disc access to the Avery Drawing Collection, and a rare book collection created by Turpin Bannister (former dean and founding member of the Society of Architectural Historians). It is part of the larger UF Library System, which has holdings of over 2.8 million volumes and innumerable periodicals, videotapes, microforms and other resources housed in the Main Library and branch libraries in the Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences and Music buildings. Particularly helpful for architectural studies is the UF Map Library (one of the most extensive collections in the nation and an invaluable resource for site analysis and topographical research). Equally useful is the UF Architecture & Fine Arts Slide Library (a vital visual resource for class presentations, with more than 200,000 slides of important works in art and architecture).
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Wood Shop: The UF College of Architecture's fully equipped wood shop affords you a cutting edge in manipulating materials and form in your course work. Since architecture depends on the specific physical properties of the materials from which it is made, many projects and assignments explore the design potential of particular media. The wood shop becomes a learning laboratory in such cases, enabling you to test your design ideas on real materials at full scale, with training and access to a full complement of power tools. A full-time wood shop supervisor is on hand to provide technical assistance and facilitate practical problem solving as needed.
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Darkroom: The UF College of Architecture's darkroom enables you to use photography for site analysis, design process, project documentation, portfolio development and personal expression. The darkroom is equipped with ten enlarger stations (with capacity for 35mm, 2º and 4x5 negative enlargement); several temperature-controlled wet islands for film development and negative processing; and other auxiliary equipment (such as drum dryers, drying racks and a negative cabinet). The darkroom also serves as a laboratory for two UF Department of Architecture courses, in the fundamentals of photography and in documentation techniques and portfolio development, in which you can learn how to use this facility to the utmost.
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Computer Labs: Computer technology is becoming increasingly indispensable to both education and architectural practice. The University of Florida is committed to keeping you in step with this trend by providing access to new equipment, software, programs and training. The UF College of Architecture maintains a major computer lab with 35 DOS-based and 10 Macintosh microcomputers, along with a smaller six-station specialized lab. High-quality scanners, printers and plotters are available at these labs, along with CAD and other software. These facilities enable you to render preliminary drafting, produce modeling in four dimensions (three dimensions plus time), analyze significant historic works, generate presentation drawings (such as plans, sections, perspectives and structural system analyses), and prepare contract documents. The UF Department of Architecture also teaches two required introductory courses in architectural computer technology, as well as more advanced elective courses and individual studies in the field, in these labs. (Related to the use of computer technology in the educational process, the University of Florida now mandates that all students have personal round-the-clock access to computers of their own, whether purchased, rented or on loan.)
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