Applicants with prior graduate-level architectural experience may be eligible for advanced placement into the second year of the M.Arch 1 program. Advanced placement is not guaranteed, but is determined by the Admissions Committee upon review of the applicant’s portfolio of architectural and creative work, the number of architectural design studios completed, their personal statement, academic standing, and letters of recommendation.
Prerequisite course for M.Arch 2, and for advanced placement into the M.Arch I program: Introduction to Digital Design (IDD), a weeklong preparatory workshop offered in late August prior to the start of the fall semester.
M.Arch 2 A two-year (five-term) professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and open to applicants with a minimum of a four-year degree in Architecture (B.Arch, or B.A. / B.S. in architecture), or its equivalent abroad. This program requires full-time attendance for the fall and spring terms of the first year, and the fall, spring and summer terms of the final year. Postgraduate Admission Students are admitted into these programs in the fall term only. Admission is determined by a review of the applicant’s personal statement, letters of recommendation, academic record, and portfolio of architectural and creative work. SCI-Arc’s EDGE Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture, offers four one-year postgraduate degree programs: Architectural Technologies SCI-Arc EDGE, Architectural Technologies is a one-year (three term) postgraduate degree program leading to a Master of Science in Architectural Technologies. After nearly three decades of radical innovations that have utterly transformed the way architecture is designed and built, the Architectural Technologies program aims to establish a new technological discourse for architecture. An open-ended platform for practical training and theoretical research, the Architectural Technologies program builds on SCI-Arc’s well-established international reputation for technological innovation in architectural design. Design of Cities SCI-Arc EDGE, Design of Cities is a one-year (three term) postgraduate degree program leading to a Master of Science in the Design of Cities. Urban design has been in the past an ambiguous practice caught between the bureaucratic and policy oriented practices of urban planning and the built scales of architecture’s design practices. Despite its ambiguous mission, how cities are to be designed remains the most important and most difficult challenge facing architecture. Most of the world’s population now lives in cities; we are witnessing an astonishing and unprecedented process of urbanization on a planetary scale. The sheer complexity of this massive movement has put into question the validity of traditional urban design concepts, and it is increasingly urgent for architects to think about how cities should be designed.
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