2024-11-23T06:12:39-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150438692/florida-southern-college-to-launch-new-school-of-architecture-on-historic-frank-lloyd-wright-campus Josh Niland 2024-07-24T17:41:00-04:00 >2024-07-29T14:12:06-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7f/7f37731e730aab18cdd438dde150b894.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A new academic program in architecture is coming to Central <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/7095/florida" target="_blank">Florida</a>: The newly established <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/73686987/florida-southern-college" target="_blank">Florida Southern College</a> School of Architecture will begin instructing the first students enrolled in its undergraduate program in 2025, with a master&rsquo;s course to follow beginning in the 2028 academic year.&nbsp;</p> <p>The future school boasts a unique learning experience thanks to its setting in the Ordway Building, which is one of 16 structures designed by <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/4673/frank-lloyd-wright" target="_blank">Frank Lloyd Wright</a> for the Lakeland campus between 1938 and 1958. According to the college, that makes it the largest single-site collection of Wright's architecture in the world.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d8/d879c57905942461c5b0db5fc75a275b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d8/d879c57905942461c5b0db5fc75a275b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Rendering of the future Florida Southern College School of Architecture building. Image: The Lunz Group/FSC SoA</figcaption></figure><p>"We are blessed that this next stage of educational excellence is being funded through a generous benefactor who will ensure that Florida Southern makes a profound impact on the architecture profession and thus on our lives as we live and work in the structures our...</p>