A full four-year professional curriculum in architecture, leading to the bachelor's degree, was established in the College of Technology (Engineering) in the 1907–1908 academic year.

In 1971, the School of Architecture renovated and moved into its present facility, the Richardson Memorial Building, and experienced another increase in enrollment that continued throughout the 1970s.

Professor William Kay Turner became the dean in 1972, and in 1975 a small graduate program was initiated, offering a course of study leading to the Master of Architecture II as a second professional degree.

In 1981, after beginning his service as dean the previous year, Professor Ronald Coulter Filson established the Architectural Coalition for professional research and practice by faculty and students.

Programs of the Small Center vary over time, but consistently involve nonprofit partners that exhibit a need for design solutions, whether visioning projects or built works.

[5] Each year an architect or scholar is invited to the School of Architecture to deliver a special lecture in honor of its late Dean, John W. Lawrence.

Lawrence lecturers have included Louis I. Kahn, Charles Willard Moore, Arata Isozaki, Mario Gandelsonas, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, and Greg Lynn.

The Architecture Student Government organizes an annual all-school Design Symposium, inviting guest lectures and hosting workshops.