The College of Fine and Applied Arts (FAA) is a multi-disciplinary art school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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History
On October 3, 1921, a proposal was made by the University Senate to organize the Department of Architecture, the Division of Landscape Architecture, the School of Music and the Department of Art and Design into a College of Fine Arts. A committee, made up of faculty members, was appointed in 1928 to make recommendations, which were approved by the Senate on February 2, 1930. On March 12, 1931, the Board of Trustees established the college for the "cultivation of esthetic taste on the part of the student body at large ... and development of general artistic appreciation." The first dean was appointed in 1932.
Today, the college includes the Schools of Architecture, Art + Design, and Music; the Departments of Dance, Landscape Architecture, Theatre, and Urban + Regional Planning; Japan House; the Krannert Art Museum; the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; and Sinfonia da Camera, the university's resident chamber orchestra. The college offers exhibitions, concerts, performances, lectures, master classes, and conferences in all areas of the performing and visual arts and for the designed and built environment.
Department of Urban + Regional Planning
The University of Illinois has a history in the training of urban and regional planners, dating back to 1913 when Charles Mulford Robinson was appointed Professor of Civic Design in the university's Landscape Architecture Division. At that time, only the University of Illinois and Harvard University offered courses in urban planning. In 1945 the university authorized a master's degree in urban planning, and in 1953 an undergraduate degree was established. Both programs were offered in the Department of Landscape Architecture until 1965, when the Department of Urban Planning became its own academic unit. The department established the PhD in Regional Planning in 1983.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning is one of the planning programs in the U.S., and it is one of very few programs that offers three degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning, a Master of Urban Planning, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Regional Planning. It also offers a Minor in Urban Planning, as well as joint master's degree options, including with Law, Architecture, and Business Administration.
Department of Landscape Architecture
This department is rated nationally among the top fifteen programs. It offers a BLA, MLA, and PhD program.
The department also offers the Cherie Kluesing Fellowship, fellowship awarded to an entering graduate student with an interest in integrating fine arts in landscape design.
Academic units and majors
University of Illinois School of Architecture
School of Art + Design
Art Education
Art History
Graphic Design
Industrial Design
Crafts: Metal/jewelry
New Media
Painting
Photography
Sculpture
Department of Dance
Department of Landscape Architecture
Department of Theatre
Acting
Scenic Design and Technology
Sound Design
Lighting Design and Technology
Costume Design and Technology
Stage Management
Theatre Studies
School of Music
Composition/Theory
Conducting
Jazz Studies
Performance
Music Education
College facilities
Architecture Building
Architecture East Annex One
Art + Design Building
Art East Annex Two
Building Research Council (BRC)
Dance Studio
Erlanger House, Urbana, Illinois
Flagg Hall
Harding Band Building
Japan House
Krannert Art Museum
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Music Building
Mumford Hall
Noble Hall
Smith Memorial Hall
South Studios
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Notable alumni
Max Abramovitz, B.S. 1929, architect of the Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center and Assembly Hall on the Illinois campus
Temple Hoyne Buell, B.S., 1916
Henry Bacon, 1884, architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Mark Staff Brandl, B.F.A., 1978, artist and art historian
Betsy Brandt, actress, most famous for role as Marie Schrader on Breaking Bad
Jeanne Gang, B.S., 1986, founder and principal of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang
Nathan Gunn, B.M.E., 1994, Grammy Award-winning operatic baritone
Jerry Hadley, M.F.A., Grammy Award-winning operatic tenor
Ralph Johnson, B.Arch, 1971, principal architect of the Perkins+Will
Cherie Kluesing, M.L.A., landscape architect
Ang Lee, B.A. 1980, Academy Award-winning movie director (Best Director, Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain)
Nick Offerman, B.F.A., Theatre, 1993, actor
César Pelli, M.Arch., 1954, architect of Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Chitra Ramanathan, B.F.A Painting 1993, M.B.A 1997, Artist and educator
Nathan Clifford Ricker, D.Arch. 1873, architecture educator