Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US, MArch, Masters of Architecture
The Master of Architecture is a NAAB-accredited, STEM, 84-credit, three-year program that maintains a mission to train students as leaders in the professional practice of architecture with substantive methods of design and inquiry.
Transforming architectural mediums, contexts, and research, this program trains you to become a leader in the professional practice of architecture with substantive methods of design and inquiry. This program aims to expand a student’s undergraduate education by imbuing them with the disciplinary and technical precision to engage in evolving design methods, design research, design thinking, and professional practice.
The Master of Architecture curriculum comprises two primary stages, the core curriculum and the advanced curriculum, and four primary areas of coursework: design, history-theory, technology, and media.
The content in core design studios, core history-theory courses, core architectural mediums courses, and core building technologies courses in the first three semesters becomes increasingly cross-coordinated, fostering “circular” learning and a broad range of modalities and methods of design. These initial semesters progressively introduce more technical, media-based, and theoretical complexity and coalesce to intensively prepare students for the Integrative Studio project in the fourth semester. Unique to the GAUD, the Integrative Studio is a combined design and integrative building-systems course and brings together a number of related disciplines into a single project, which students develop in teams.
The final two semesters and advanced curriculum are dedicated to GAUD Directed Research studios and electives.
Columbia University, Urban Studies/Architecture
The Shape of Two Cities: New York/Paris Program introduces students to the fields of architecture, planning and preservation while encouraging their exploration in the contexts of history, theory and practice. The program offers a two-semester curriculum that immerses participants in the rich physical and intellectual urban environments of New York and Paris. Instruction draws on the resources of Columbia University and its faculty, and the architectural communities of New York and Paris.
The Architecture studio combines class and studio work to introduce design, architectural theory, and structural concepts. Through a series of increasingly complex projects that are focused on New York and Paris, design studios emphasize form and space-making and the formulation of public and private spaces as they relate to urban morphology.
The Urban Studies studio emphasizes workshop and seminar work to introduce its fields, which are placed in the contexts of urban and architecture history, historic and contemporary approaches to planning and preservation, and analysis of the social and cultural development of New York and Paris.
