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Our mission to serve our communities with intentional development and design goes beyond the classroom. Through research centers, outreach initiatives, and community-driven projects, we strive to make a tangible difference in the lives of individuals and the prosperity of communities.

  • TP3C

    The Transforming Places, Practices, and Pedagogies Collaborative (TP3C) is a research unit within the School of Architecture at the University of Utah, dedicated to conducting architectural research.

     

  • Metropolitan Research Center

    The Metropolitan Research Center (MRC) is a unit within the College of Architecture + Planning that conducts basic and applied research on the built environment at the metropolitan scale, focusing on key forces shaping metropolitan form such as demographics, environment, technology, design, transportation, arts and culture, and governance.

  • Healthy Aging & Resilience Program

    The Healthy Aging and Resilient Places (HARP) Lab is an action-oriented research lab developing a place-based approach to healthy aging and resilient places.

  • Center for Ecological Planning & Design

    The Center for Ecological Planning and Design works on bridging the gaps between research and the design and planning fields, both within CA+P and across campus, with a focus on the built environment and the human communities that inhabit it.

  • DesignBuildUtah@Bluff

    Immersed within our remote campus in Bluff, near the Navajo Nation's northernmost chapters, DesignBuildUtah@Bluff participants spend a semester turning their designs into reality, gaining hands-on experience in construction, teamwork, and community-focused architecture.

  • DesignBuildUtah@SLC

    DesignBuildUtah@SLC is an immersive design-build program from the University of Utah School of Architecture where students collaborate to design and construct affordable, energy-efficient structures—gaining hands-on experience in teamwork, construction, and community service within Salt Lake City neighborhoods

  • Design Institute for Health and Resistance

    The Design Institute for Health and Resilience (DIHR) is a multidisciplinary initiative established to advance translational research and innovation at the intersection of environmental design and human health.

  • Dialectic Journals

    Dialectic is the journal of the School of Architecture, bringing together distinct voices in the discipline today on issues, values, methods, and debates most important to the community of educators at the University of Utah and beyond.