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VABE
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
401 SUNSET AVE
WINDSOR, ONTARIO
N9B3P4
mogy@uwindsor.ca
519 253 3000 (ext 2333)

about vabe

Visual Arts and the Built Environment [VABE] is a unique new program at the University of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario) that has been created in collaboration with the University of Detroit Mercy (Detroit, Michigan).  It has been designed to bring together students and faculty from the School of Visuals Arts at Windsor and the School of Architecture at Detroit.  The intention is for students to approach the design of the built environment from the position of both artists and architects.  By crossing the boundaries that have traditionally separated these two professions students learn to examine the built environment from the perspective of aesthetics, creativity, social culture, construction, utility, meaning, and history.

The VABE program is based in, and coordinated by, the School of Visual Arts at the University of Windsor and combines expertise and resources with the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy.  The program provides students with the opportunity of taking courses offered at both institutions, in such areas as architectural design, art history, contemporary art, visual culture, construction, and environmental technology.

VABE is a four year Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) program which allows students to pursue the study of architecture at the end of three years.  The University of Detroit Mercy will accept students into the fourth year of their B.Sc. in Architecture program after successfully completing three years in the VABE program.  Acceptance into UDM’s architecture program is conditional on students obtaining a GPA of 9.0 [B+] and meeting the UDM’s portfolio requirements.