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| HISTORY
The five-year architecture program was modified to a two+two+two year program in 1967 and, in 1968, a Department of Urban Planning was created within the College of Architecture and Design. That same year, a university-wide Ph.D. Program in Urban and Regional Planning was established in the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs with faculty from 12 schools and colleges. In addition, Michigan became the first American school to offer a Doctorate of Architecture degree the following year. The introduction of the doctoral program was a natural development due to the history of architectural research at the College.
Although the College has remained in the same physical location since 1974, it continues to evolve. In 1982, a sociotechnical focus was added to the doctoral program in urban and regional planning which then became the Ph.D. Program in Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning (UTEP ) and by 1989 the program was from Rackham Graduate School to the College. The Doctoral Program in Architecture was also modified in 1989 and the degree designation changed to a Ph.D., giving the College a more comprehensive program of professional and doctoral education in both architecture and urban planning. In 1992, the two individual programs in urban planning and UTEP were merged to form the Urban and Regional Planning Program (URP), which is now under a single chair with a coordinator of doctoral studies. Since the mid-twentieth century, the College has been headed by Deans Philip N. Youtz (1957-1964), Reginald F. Malcolmson (1964-1974), Robert C. Metcalf (1974-1986), Robert M. Beckley (1987-1997), James C. Snyder (interim 1997-1998) and Douglas S. Kelbaugh appointed in 1998. 
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Conferences
Courses
in architecture were first offered at the University of Michigan in 1876
by William Le Baron Jenney. Architecture was recognized as a formal course
of study in 1906 when a program was established in the Department of Engineering
with Emil Lorch as chair. Under his leadership, the program grew steadily
in size and stature and, in 1913, the University granted the program departmental
status and full control of its curriculum. Lorch continued to shape the
program and, in 1923, was instrumental in bringing Eliel Saarinen from
Finland to teach at Michigan.In 1931, the College of Architecture was
established as a separate entity with 370 students and 27 faculty members.
Wells
Bennett succeeded Emil Lorch as director of the College in 1937 and became
Dean a year later. In 1939, the College’s name was changed to the
College of Architecture and Design, the program in architecture was expanded
to a five-year curriculum and landscape architecture was added. In the
mid-1940s, Michigan was one of the few schools that considered research
to be a necessary element of architectural education. By founding the
Architecture Research Laboratory in 1948, the College took a pioneering
step in integrating design, construction, technology, planning and research.
A graduate program in urban planning, which awarded a Master of City Planning
degree, was introduced in 1946. This program was one of the first of its
kind in the country. 
Visual
arts courses, originally offered to advance the training of architects,
began attracting students from other fields, leading to the creation of
separate Departments of Art and Architecture in 1954. The College housed
these two departments, along with the smaller Department of Landscape
Architecture, for the next decade. In 1965, Landscape Architecture was
moved to the School of Natural Resources as a result of its growing relationship
to the earth sciences. 