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The UNLV School of Architecture (SoA) is renowned for its innovative research, teaching, and outreach that is critically informed, academically rigorous, design-led, and interdisciplinary. We are a vibrant, engaging school that inspires and challenges our students. We help grow your knowledge in a tutoring culture that is productive, curious, and on the pulse of today’s ever-developing world. We offer accredited programs in three disciplines: Architecture Landscape Architecture Interior Architecture and Design We are based in the centre of Las Vegas, a unique and fast-growing city located in the Mojave Desert, Southern Nevada. We capitalize on this unique regional location to improve the human condition through teaching, research, and service. Read More from Our Director 2018-2019 Awards Ceremony Billboard Yearbook Over the last 25 years, the School of Architecture has grown up alongside the design professions in Las Vegas, Southern Nevada, and the American Southwest. Las Vegas has always been seen as a unique laboratory and field of experimentation for new ideas of architecture and interior design. On 360 pages, BILLBOARD provides an introduction to the various programs of teaching and impactful research that made up the last year. The BILLBOARD book presents countless projects, meaningful initiatives and programs, and demonstrates the school’s unique and on-going evolution. View the Billboard Yearbook The UNLV School of Architecture (SoA) is renowned for its innovative research, teaching, and outreach that is critically informed, academically rigorous, design-led, and interdisciplinary. The School plays a crucial role in Nevada: it offers the state’s only professional degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Architecture & Design. We are a vibrant, engaging school that inspires and challenges our students. We help grow your knowledge in a tutoring culture that is productive, curious, and on the pulse of today’s ever-developing world. Our Programs B.S. Architecture B.S. Architecture Interior Architecture & Design Interior Architecture & Design Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture Master of Architecture Master of Architecture Healthcare Interior Design Healthcare Interior Design Advising Advising UNLV has been categorized as R1-University “very high research activity” (Carnegie classification), the gold standard for higher education institutions, and UNLV is one of just 120 universities with the distinction, out of the approximately 4,000 universities and colleges in the USA. Being a Carnegie R1 university elevates our efforts to further support our outstanding faculty and students, recruit new members to our university, and power even more research, economic development, and creative activities. 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More News Architecture on the Move Architect Daniel Libeskind addressed a large crowd at UNLV Feb. 28, 2020 Architect Daniel Libeskind addressed a large crowd at UNLV UNLV Professor involved in the International Architecture Biennale in Venice Feb. 28, 2020 UNLV Professor involved in the International Architecture Biennale in Venice Professor Glenn NP Nowak on Recent Panel: Extending hospitality studies into architectural analyses. Feb. 19, 2020 Professor Glenn NP Nowak on Recent Panel: Extending hospitality studies into architectural analyses. 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