Doctoral / PHD Programs in Architecture

The interdisciplinary nature of the doctoral (Ph.D.) program stresses the relationship of architecture, urbanism, landscape, and building technologies to their cultural, social, and political milieu. Supported by strong affiliations with other departments in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, the program has developed a comprehensive approach to the study of the field. Students interact with their peers to sustain their individual projects in a context of collective research.

Students in the Department of History of Art and Architecture are able to study in a wide array of areas including ancient, medieval, early modern (Renaissance, 17th and 18th centuries), modern, contemporary, East Asian, African and Latin American art and architecture, and history of photography.

The department's faculty consists of historians of the major periods of Western, African and East Asian art and architecture, representing a broad spectrum of the discipline's methodologies and specialties. Courses offered at Harvard and the nearby Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) may be taken for credit free of charge by history of art students with the approval of the department.

Access to the holdings of the RISD Museum and the library of the Rhode Island School of Design, adjacent to the Brown campus; use of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World for students interested in antiquity; collections of the Bell Gallery, the John Hay Library, and the John Carter Brown Library; an extensive slide library housed in the List Art Center; and electronic visual resources in development.

Architectural science (M.S.). Program objectives are (1) to afford an opportunity for students of architecture to expand their creative design potential by increasing their knowledge and understanding of environmental science and building technologies and (2) to provide a framework within which students who have graduated from other technical disciplines may explore computer science, computer graphics, and computer-aided design methods. Students enrolling for studies in computer graphics use the facilities of the interdisciplinary Program of Computer Graphics.

Ordinarily four terms of residence are required to complete the program of study, depending on the student background and experience.

Architecture (M.Arch. professional) is a three-and-a-half-year professional Master of Architecture program (M.Arch.) administered by the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

Note on Professional AccreditationIn the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: bachelor of architecture, master of architecture, and doctor of architecture. A program may be granted an eight-year, three-year or two-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.

However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

AAP M.Arch. (professional) program was formally granted an eight-year term accreditation effective 2013-2021.

Cornell Post-professional M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design is an intensive advanced design research (ADR) program. Open to individuals holding a B.Arch. or an M.Arch (first-professional) degree, the three-semester program beginning the first weekday in June offers a critical framework for investigating pertinent design concerns, practices, and technologies in 21st-century architecture and urbanism.

A structure of core and elective studios and courses allows students to pursue trajectories of inquiry within one of four interrelated territories of investigation:.

Architecture and Discourse (A+D): Theory, criticism, publishing, cultural production, design research, history and contemporaneity.

Architecture and Ecology (A+E): Sustainable practices, soft infrastructures, materials research, environmental simulation, computational design, digital fabrication, performance driven design.

Architecture and Representation (A+R): Emerging technologies, drawing fields, digital and generative design, new cartographies, media spaces, architectural publications and exhibitions, theories of representation.

Architecture and Urbanism (A+U): Urban geography, typological studies, urban theory, networks, infrastructures, urban imaging, ecological urbanism.

History of architecture and urban development (M.A., Ph.D.). Applicants may apply for the master or doctoral programs in architectural history or urban development history. Applicants with previous graduate work can be considered for advanced standing. Master degree candidates in the history of architecture or urban development programs are required to have reading proficiency in at least one modern language other than English Ph.D. degree candidates must have proficiency in two languages other than English before beginning the second year of study.

Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P] (M.S.) (Ithaca).

History of Architecture and Urban Development (Ph.D.) (Ithaca).

Master of Architecture [Administered by A.A.P] (M.Arch) (Ithaca).

Concentrations:History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture history of urban development Design Technology: Matter Design Computation.

Research Interests: History, theory, criticism of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism global history of art and architecture architecture in Europe and West Asia, critical theory and historiography.

Concentrations:History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture history of urban development.

Research Interests: Global Modernisms Architecture and its intersection with humanitarian discourses including human rights and border studies Histories of technology in architecture and art Architecture, social equity and community building Architecture and art curation Experimental spatial practices South and Southeast Asian and African architecture and art.

Research Interests: Inclusive Design Fabrication Methods and Technologies Socially and Environmentally Conscious Design Practices Material Affects in Architecture and Material Culture.

Concentrations:Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science Design Technology: Matter Design Computation.

Research Interests: architectural design theory and criticism theories of architectural representation history of architectural theory seventeenth and eighteenth-century France.

Research Interests: global environmental histories, phenomenology, intersections between architecture, anthropology and philosophy.

Research Interests: Architectural history Architectural theory History of sciences, and technology Labor histories, building practices and material epistemologies Modernity coloniality, decolonial studies and architecture after empire 20th century Iberia, Latin America and Colonial Africa Mestizo modernities Politics of religion and secularity Global fascism Critical theory and ideology critique Architectural writing and historiography Public and civically-engaged humanities and design.

Research Interests: computer-aided architectural design computer graphics architectural structures architectural technology.

Research Interests: intersection between architecture, landscape and conceptual art design representation landscape, cities and film site histories camping, travel and tourism fieldwork and field documentation methods.

Research Interests: Architectural typology, design methodology, shape grammars, systems of bias and influence present in design tools and methods.

Research Interests: Residential architecture, advanced timber construction, health and well-being in buildings, holistic building performance evaluation including structural optimization and carbon footprint assessment.

Research Interests: Northern Mediterranean architecture and urbanism nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture relationship between popular culture and architecture.

Research Interests: Architecture and logistics, Urbanism and logistics, infrastructure, representation, research methodologies in architecture and urbanism.

Concentrations:Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]: advanced architectural design theory and criticism of architecture urban design Master of Architecture [Administered by A.A.P]: architecture.

Research Interests: architecture and urbanism, intersection of housing, urbanization and mass-customized construction methods, material practices.

Concentrations:Architectural Science: computer graphics Design Technology: Matter Design Computation.

Research Interests: architectural design and emerging technologies architecture and science advanced materials and fabrication design computation ecological design and architectural science visualization.

Research Interests: robotic building construction digital fabrication and material design design computation architecture and form visual representation.

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The PHD in Architecture addresses the development of modern architectural form and ideas as they have been affected by social, economic, and technological change. In broad terms, it encompasses the relations between the profession, practice, civil institutions, and the society at large.

As a doctoral program, it is oriented toward the training of scholars in the field of architectural history and theory. Its structure reflects a dual understanding of the scholar’s role in the discipline at large: as a teacher and as a researcher making an original contribution to the field, with an emphasis on expanding and reinterpreting disciplinary knowledge in a broad intellectual arena. Course requirements are therefore designed to give entering students a solid foundation in historical knowledge and theoretical discourse, with sufficient flexibility to spark and support individual research agendas. The program’s focus is on the history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism in an international and cross-cultural context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Within this, a wide range of research is supported through the varied expertise of the faculty and through strong relationships with other departments throughout the university and beyond.

The Ph.D. in Architecture is a program within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) while the actual degree is granted by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).

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The Ph.D. in Architecture was one of only four such programs in the United States when it was established in 1969, the first to offer the Doctorate of Architecture degree.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) invites applicants who wish to investigate architecture and the built environment in focused projects that unfold over a span of years. Students embarking on a doctorate conduct original research that yields new insights into past, current, and future developments of architecture and building practices. Doctoral Studies promotes independent critical thinkers and research specialists across a range of fields within the increasingly broad fields of architecture and the built environment.

The University of Michigan’s Ph.D. in Architecture was one of only four such programs in the United States when it was established in 1968. Since that date, the program has continued to evolve in response to changes in the discipline and the profession. Michigan’s remarkable research facilities allow our students to develop interdisciplinary research projects with partners across campus. The Horace H. Rackham Graduate School awards the Ph.D., generally after five or six years of study.

The architecture school environment continues to provide Doctoral Studies with a rich supporting context, ranging from robust lecture and seminar series, to remarkable technical facilities that support spatial and numeric data and global information systems as well as fabrication and testing facilities. Students are encouraged to seek out resources that are necessary to develop and carry out topics of research, particularly for the dissertation, if any are unavailable on campus.

Because many of our entering students come from professional degree programs, we emphasize the importance of the subtle but substantive shift from design-based studio work to research in major subfields of architectural practice and study. This shift often requires significant re-training in basic skills such as reading, writing, and research methods. We require a relatively high number of course credits (40 in total), and a significant time commitment to completion of degree. Four years are normally spent in residence and are fully funded with tuition, stipend, and benefits. Two additional years of tuition benefit allow students to complete the degree with fellowship support from other university units or external sources, support that is typically raised in their fourth and fifth years.

The third year is spent preparing for and passing doctoral examinations and identifying a dissertation project. Students advance to candidacy after taking their preliminary examinations, by January of the third year at the latest. HT students must satisfy the language requirement (minimally, competence in one research language) by this time as well. At the end of the third year, students defend their dissertation proposal in a public defense with their dissertation committee. Years four and five and, if necessary, six, are spent in researching, writing, and defending the dissertation. During the initial phase of dissertation research, students may spend substantial time off campus, supported by internal and external fellowships. They often return to Ann Arbor to write up the results of research. The dissertation is defended in a formal dissertation defense. Time to degree varies among the specializations of our program, but students typically take at least five or six years to complete the degree. [Please see chart on the last page of this handbook].

Training in teaching and research is an integral part of the degree.

These advisors should be identified and contacted by the middle of the second year of coursework at the latest, although many students have identified a primary advisor before arriving in Ann Arbor. The major can be defined in dialogue with the student’s advisor several possible major areas are listed below. The minor is a distinct subject area that complements the major. The minor may lie in Architecture, in Urban and Regional Planning, or in another University of Michigan department, program, or center. Coursework in the minor must be approved for Rackham graduate credit, deemed appropriate by the Doctoral Advisory Committee, and approved by the major advisor.

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Dual Master of Architecture (M. Arch) and Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP).

Not required for summer 2022 and fall 2022 MS Arch, MArch and MSUD.

Portfolio suggested if Architecture background present, but not required.

Previous professional degree in Architecture, City and Regional Urban Planning or similar required to be eligible to apply to this program.

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