"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
Ernest Demnat

A year-long exploration of the built environment at the University at Albany and its surrounding community

University at Albany Podium Fountain

The Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS), The College of Arts and Sciences, the University Art Museum, the University Performing Arts Center, The New York State Writers Institute, the University Libraries, the Departments of Art and Art History, Geography and Planning, the Journalism Program, and the Office of the Provost, Academic Affairs, at the University of Albany, in conjunction with Historic Albany, The Albany Institute of History and Art, the Center for Arts in Education, and the Preservation League of New York State will explore and celebrate a year of architecture at the University's architecturally significant campus and at sites throughout the historic Capital Region during the spring and fall semesters of 2006.

Through the multiple perspectives of the humanities, arts, and sciences, The Architecture Project is designed to:

• Raise the architectural profile and public awareness about the UAlbany campus as a monument to high Modernist Style.
   
• Stimulate public discourse on the relationship of architecture, community, and the experience of these spaces by students and the public.
   
• Utilize the architecture on campus for public performances, lectures, discussion topics, student blogs, questionnaires, to bring the community on campus and to engage the university community in discussions.
   
• Support aesthetic education and visual literacy through perceptual, historical, and critical analyses of UAlbany's architecture and visual culture.
   
• Enhance other disciplines such as history, literary criticism, geography and planning, philosophy, film, and anthropology through interface with architecture and visual culture.

Dr. William Hedberg, Office of the Provost, Academic Affairs

Dr. Mary Valentis, Director, Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS)