Student Organizations

The AIAS is an independent, non-profit and student-run organization that is more than just a club. This grassroots association is a cooperative between thousands of students (of all ages and academic degrees) committed to helping each other. It provides a sense of community and a forum to share differing views. That AIAS is also a professional organization that is the official voice of architecture students.

The Task Force will meet during the 2005-2006 academic year to identify and make recommendations to the CoA Administration regarding student needs, priorities and concerns. The Task Force will suggest ways to improve student life at the CoA, to build a stronger sense of culture, and to improve communication between students and the administration.

As an active Texas Tech University student organization, Tech Habitat performs a very important service to the Lubbock community by assisting in the construction of new homes for families in need in which to live and raise their children. The families work in partnership with Habitat for Humanity to build their homes. Working side by side with Lubbock Habitat for Humanity, Texas Tech University students, faculty, and staff, local High Schools and churches, and many others contribute to the building of these homes.

The Knights of Architecture is a service organization with the mission to recruit outstanding students to Texas Tech University and the College of Architecture, increase retention of students enrolled in Texas Tech University and in the College of Architecture, serve as goodwill ambassadors from the College of Architecture to other units serving Texas Tech University on campus and in the community, serve as a spirit organization for the College of Architecture, and to assist the Dean of Architecture in promoting programs with architecture-related business alumni.

Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society for Architecture and the Allied Arts honors students and design professionals who contribute to scholarship, mental acheivement and excellence in areas of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design.

The Association of Women in Architecture and Design is a non-profit educational organization formed in 2001 to support and encourage women in architecture and related professions. Women in Architecture and Design stimulates and encourages women to achieve maximum potential in careers as architects, designers, educators, and leaders.