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 Charleston Civic Design Center, Spoleto Festival USA, the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Orphan Aid Society, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, the City of Johnsonville, Project Okurase (Ghana), the City of North Charleston, and the Post & Courier. 

The CAC.C offers coursework for third- and fourth-year undergraduates in architecture and landscape architecture and first year MArch graduate students.  Since 2001 the Center has won three NCARB Prizes from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards NCARB) for the Integration of Practice and Education, as well as the American Institute of Architect’s Best Mentoring Practices award in 2006. In 2008, the Center's Dirctor, Robert Miller, won an ACSA Creative Achievement Award, one of three in the nation, for the CAC.C’s design/build project:  The MINImuseum of Richard McMahan.