Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
at the University of Michigan

Type	Public
Established	1906
Parent institution	University of Michigan
Endowment	$75 million (2007)
Dean	Robert Fishman, Interim
Administration	Milton S.F. Curry, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives as well as Director of Post-Professional Degrees Geoffrey Thün, Associate Dean for Research Sharon Haar, Chair, Architecture Richard Norton, Chair, Planning
Academic staff	90
Students	607 Total 215 B.S.Arch, 205 M.Arch, 125 M.U.P., 15 M.U.D., 6 M.Sc, 41 PhD
Location	Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Campus	Suburban
Affiliations	NAAB, NCARB, AICP/ACSP, ACSA, AIAS, AIA, APA, USGBC, APX
Website	http://www.taubmancollege.umich.edu/

The A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (also Taubman College) is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the built environment at the University of Michigan.

Formerly known as the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the college was named after real estate developer and philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman when he donated $30 million to the college in May 1999. The gift was one of the largest in the history of the University of Michigan and the largest ever to a school of architecture.

In 2011, the college's Master of Architecture program was ranked number 1 by DesignIntelligence.

In 1876, the University of Michigan became one of the first universities in the United States to offer courses in architecture, led by influential Chicago architect William Le Baron Jenney. After thirty years, a degree program within the Department of Engineering was established in 1906, under the direction of Emil Lorch, who served to administer the program and its ever-evolving iterations until 1937. Housed in what is now Lorch Hall on Central Campus, the program quickly grew into the Department of Architecture by 1913. In 1923, world-renowned architect Eliel Saarinen joined the faculty of the department, with which he was associated during his design, construction, and subsequent presidency of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. By 1930, the College of Architecture had been established aand grew to become the College of Architecture and Design in 1939, introducing Landscape Architecture and, by 1948, one of the first Master of City Planning degrees. The 1940s also saw the college taking a progressive role with regards to architectural research, establishing the Architecture Research Laboratory that would pioneer the integration of design, construction, technology, planning and research. In 1965, the Landscape Architecture program moved to the university's School of Natural Resources.

In 1968, the college made history by establishing the first-ever doctoral program in architecture, fueled by a strong level of academic inquiry into the field.