Fluid Campus / Charleston

Robert Miller     Director

The CAC.C’s mission is to bridge academia and practice by teaching in a hybrid environment—a cross between academic and professional modes of work. 

Toward this end, students may take internships (for credit and pay) with local architects, landscape architects, urban designers, craftsmen, and contractors.  The faculty is comprised entirely of professionals.  Devoted to service learning, CAC.C studios are offered in two tracks (urban design and fabrication) that work on actual issues and projects in the low country.  Students work collaboratively, often on teams led by professors and graduate students.  Past projects include work for the City of Charleston, the Civic Design Center, Spoleto Festival USA, the Gibbes Art Museum, the Orphan Aid Society, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Post & Courier. 

The CAC.C teaches third- and fourth-year undergraduates in architecture and landscape architecture; all graduate architecture students study in Charleston during the MArch degree.  Since 2001 the Center has won three NCARB Prize awards from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards for the Integration of Practice and Education, as well as the American Institute of Architect’s Best Mentoring Practices award in 2006.