The College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture is a hub for research, service and practice that profoundly shapes the built environment—in the Sonoran Desert and beyond.
Our innovative and award-winning faculty work across disciplines, across communities and across nations. Through world-class scholarship and application, they discover and create. And they nurture: working closely with our students to apply their education in boundless ways. At CAPLA, our research and practice are building a changing world.
It’s time to look at how research can be addressed in buildings so we solve problems in a way that is fully informed, impacts decisions and shapes policy.
Barbara Bryson, CAPLA Associate Dean for Research
Faculty Research
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Faculty Publications and Presentations

CAPLA faculty are leading experts and innovators in the built environment, with presentations made around the world and research published in the top architecture, landscape architecture, development and planning journals and referenced widely in the media.
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The Drachman Institute, the outreach arm of CAPLA, is committed to building interdisciplinary research capacity while enhancing the student experience and supporting community decision-making in the built environment.
Learn More About the Drachman Institute »RESTRUCT: Built Environment Research at the University of Arizona
The University of Arizona will be the first university to develop a robust university-wide ecosystem supporting research, teaching and service for the built environment, defining a new fully integrated discipline leveraging knowledge and research from all Arizona colleges, including CAPLA.
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Header image by Luyi Huang '18 B Arch, a rendering of her fifth-year architecture capstone project.