haha.

sigh...

SuperHeavy what are you doing up so late? Shouldn't you be resting up for the big Irish pub crawl?!

March Madness of Architecture Schools
Votes will determine FINAL FOUR!

East (Loaded Bracket!)
(1)GSD -Grad
(2)Cornell - Ugrad
(3)Columbia - Grad
(4)Princeton - Grad
(5)Cooper Union
(6)UPenn
(7)Syracuse
(8)RPI

Midwest
(1)Cincy
(2)Cranbrook (what's their mascot?)
(3)Washington U. in St. Louis
(4)IIT
(5)Carnagie Mellon
(6)UMich
(7)Ill. @ Champ-Urbana
(8)The Ohio State U.

South
(1)UVA
(2)Rice
(3)Auburn
(4)Clemson
(5)Texas
(6)GaTech
(7)Va. Tech
(8)Florida

West
(1) UCLA
(2) Cal
(3) Sci-Arc
(4) Cal Poly
(5) U Washington
(6) U Oregon
(7) Az. State
(8) U. Colorado @ Boulder

Substitute (8) in the East with Yale.

REVISED

East (Loaded Bracket!)
(1)GSD -Grad
(2)Cornell - Ugrad
(3)Columbia - Grad
(4)Princeton - Grad
(5)Cooper Union
(6)UPenn
(7)Yale
(8)Syracuse

Midwest
(1)Cincy
(2)Cranbrook (what's their mascot?)
(3)Washington U. in St. Louis
(4)IIT
(5)Carnagie Mellon
(6)UMich
(7)Ill. @ Champ-Urbana
(8)The Ohio State U.

South
(1)UVA
(2)Rice
(3)Auburn
(4)Clemson
(5)Texas
(6)GaTech
(7)Va. Tech
(8)Florida

West
(1) UCLA
(2) Cal
(3) Sci-Arc
(4) Cal Poly
(5) U Washington
(6) U Oregon
(7) Az. State
(8) U. Colorado @ Boulder

i say midwest looks like this....

cincy, umich, wash u, cranbrook.....

also i say yale is #5 at least in the east

i like this thread

Final Four

East: Columbia

Midwest: Ohio State

South: UVA

West: UCLA



Final

UCLA Vs. Columbia

i <3 this topic :)

i think the west bracket looks really weak

Left out from the eastern list:-- MIT

wishful thinking on that list in a lot of places, wow.

it was a start... by no means final please make suggestions...
MIT was a gross error in omission

have a high deducible on your e&o insurance?

bump

i visited UCLA over winter break, Sci Arc too...I personally rank Sci Arc higher...mainly based on facilities.

The rankings are based on design criteria not facilities. You have the Greg, Mayne, Denari, Servo camp @ UCLA. Who do you have at SciArch? Eric Owen Moss & Hernan, please! You lose this one Jasoncross.

enjoy your table saw.

plus, you said best...to me, part of being the best is definately the facilities...if you are left talking about it...well then...nuff said...my personal interest is very much in facilities...lots of great teachers who do not have big names.

to each their own though.

Princeton looks low, Cornell look several spots too high and where the heck is berkeley?

berkeley is Cal

boy does that help, thanks

i didn't see celeriter's list as a ranking so much as a listing of the bracket. Perhaps it could become a seeding, leading to a sweet sixteen, final four, etc. It is march after all.

I didn't know Cincinnati had an architecture school. How 'bout that!

Just kidding. Please stop ranking things.

Then how the fuck did USC not even get into the bracket? Or are we all in love with trendy schools here even if they have crappy 2+2+2 systems?

carnegie who?

for west you guys forgot
cal poly(undergrad)

what about canada?

and is UW UO that high?

top 10 dumbest threads ever...

Superheavy has got it...not RANKINGS just lists...
your votes count....revised list by the end of the day...

Yoda started it...not me...just thought in the spirit of March Madness

yeah what about canada? any opinions?

this is absurd and mind numbing......

mcgill? for french speaker ha

i heard u of toronto was good(and cheap)

dude i don't know why people make a huge fuss about comparing different programs
its like buying a car, you have to compare to see which ones are good ......so you get the best education

no offence ( iknow people that are jsut crazy about rankings which is dumb,) but i just think looking at good programs is something you should do

ak_asian, Cal Poly is #4 in the west list...

my cellphone is better than your cellphone.

I really doubt Auburn and Clemson are better than Texas

How the hell did Auburn get above JawjaTek? But I will buy that Clemson is better than TX. (I did that just because I didn't get enough 'wrath' from the 'Fat Baaastard' of Exxon today.)

I agree with some of the comments mentioned above. With that said, I believe we should all post our final four and call it a day and let the architectural gods rank them.

Ak_Asian...I don't know what you mean by McGill. It's an English language school.

it is?
oh, i just assumed because it was in montreal it bilingual
thanks for di info ( i will consider that school)

^^Precisely illustrates the problems with this thread.

Selection Sunday...
REVISED (can you guess the logic?)

East
Columbia
Cooper Union
Cornell
Harvard
MIT
UPenn
Princeton
Syracuse
Yale

Midwest
Carnegie Mellon
Cincy
Cranbrook
IIT
Ill. @ Champ-Urbana
UMich
The Ohio State U.
Washington U. in St. Louis

South
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
GaTech
Rice
Texas
UVA
Va. Tech

West
Az. State
Cal
Cal Poly
U. Colorado @ Boulder
U Oregon
Sci-Arc
U Washington
UCLA

bump

Selection Sunday...
REVISED (again...can you still guess the logic?)

East
Columbia
Cooper Union
Cornell
Harvard
MIT
UPenn
Princeton
Syracuse
Yale

Midwest
Carnegie Mellon
Cincy
Cranbrook
IIT
Ill. @ Champ-Urbana
UMich
The Ohio State U.
Washington U. in St. Louis

South
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
GaTech
Rice
Texas
UVA
Va. Tech

West
Az. State
Cal
UCLA
Cal Poly
U. Colorado @ Boulder
U Oregon
Sci-Arc
U Washington

it looks like you know you abc's haha
i don't get the west....haha i

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee... represent?

what about stevens in hoboken?! now you've done it...

purposely leaving at least one more deserving school out of it? If you need help: USC fits between SCIArc and U Washington alphabetically, and is a very good school. Drop Boulder and put a good school on.