The School of Architecture is ideally located between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore and surrounded by a number of historic communities and a varied physical environment. The resulting opportunity for environmental design study is unsurpassed. The School's library contains some 26,000 monographs and 6,000 current periodicals, making it one of the major architectural libraries in the nation. The National Trust Library for Historic Preservation, housed in McKeldin Library, contains 11,000 volumes and 450 periodical titles. The slide collection includes approximately 260,000 slides on architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and technical subjects.
Students continue to participate in field archaeology.
Projects in the past have taken place in Tunisia, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, and Sri Lanka. Summer workshops for historic preservation are sponsored by the School in Cape May, NJ, a designated national historic landmark district, and Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire, England. Students may earn credit doing hands-on restoration work and by attending lectures presented by visiting architects, preservationists, and scholars. The School of Architecture offers a limited and varying number of teaching and research assistantships, scholarships, fellowships, and internships. Applicants should apply for financial assistance when submitting the application for admission.