Not much math involved, other than in structures. Basic algebra. It will help if you can learn the formulas and apply them, but it's more important to understand the prinicples. If Marty Paul is still teaching structures at sci-arc he's great.
There's very little emphasis there on precision, detailing or structural design, so as long as you work to understand why structures work and use common sense you won't need a calculator.

same approach at my school. you should know basic math but calculus is no longer on the curriculum in most places. Better to understand the way forces move through a building than to know how to calculate the size of every structural member in it. Being able to do the latter doesn't hurt but most ofices hire an engineer to do that for them anyway.

Even Toyo Ito, who could stamp his own engineering drawings if he wanted to (in Japan all architects are engineers by definition) hires an engineer to make his ideas reality.

ditto on what everyone else has said... there is a reason those structural engineers make so much money... I think for many of us we chose architecture because of the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of the profession not because of the mathematical aspects (although I am sure some like the precision). Architecture, at least for me, is approached the same way as one would approach a piece of art or music... you search for its relation to the world, to the subjects, and to youself. When you look at a building you see space, form, and perhaps meaning... not many people see a series of answers to a complicated structural algorythm.

simply stated math is left brain, art is right brain.
to excel in architecture you really must be able to utilize both.
this does not mean you have to be a math whiz. but you do have to be able to fire up the left lobe on a regular basis. maybe not for engineering, but certainly for the things they don't teach you about in architecture school - schedules, budgets, codes, and on and on and on.

re: ra rudolphs comment - i took structures with marty paul at ucla and he is definitely a great teacher.

I second jumps comments.

If the school you select has a structures class, take it to strengthen your weaknesses (embrace the challenge!). Someday you will need to learn how solve for forces with some basic algebra/ trig. if you choose to take the ARE (to become a registered architect). Otherwise, a simple understanding of math/ basic-algebra is usually sufficient enough for day to day life (through school and in the office).

Even though you don't really use math THAT much in architecture practice, I did have to take basic calculus and physics for engineers, as well as structures classes (which was not that big of a deal).

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