The College of Environmental Design (CED) is the first in the country to bring together the departments of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, creating a dynamic community of students, scholars, designers, and planners concerned with the built environment. Through instruction, cutting-edge research programs, and in their award-winning design practices, the people of the CED are in the forefront of the effort to build more aesthetically, more appropriately, and in ways that ethically balance the multiplicity of human, social, and ecological needs.

CED works on all scales of the built environment — from individual buildings to global environmental systems. The college combines design, research, and social factors into a powerful design activism that has been at work for over 100 years.