10 Course Programs in Architecture in North America for 2024

Students will gain a broad understanding of the complexity of architecture as a profession and as an academic discipline. The Architectural Studies curriculum draws primarily on courses offered in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Studio Arts. Gain a broad understanding of the complexity of architecture as a profession and as an academic discipline.

Picture your financially successful practice with continuous profitability and stable cash flow. You’re able to attract and retain great employees and confidently pursue work to keep doing what you love ⁠— architecture. The Financial Management for Architects course is for professionals in the architecture industry who want to learn how to improve and efficiently manage their firm’s finances and profitability, make sound financial decisions and achieve their business goals. This includes owners, managers, architects, intern architects, engineers and designers. This two-day course will lay a framework for understanding the financial and accounting operations, processes and concepts, needed to run and lead a sustainable architecture business.

The Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree is a pre-professional major providing students with substantial grounding in the discipline. Coursework encompasses historical and theoretical analysis of the built environment around the world and across time. Students develop critical understanding of how cultures shape the built environment and how the built environment reflects interaction between cultures.

Smith’s architecture program combines studio work with courses in architectural history. In studios, students explore the built environment “as a person experiences it,” building models by hand, using laser cutters and designing with sophisticated computing technology. Classes on urban space, public architecture and landscape design complement studio work. Often students work on local projects and at the MacLeish Field Station in Hatfield.

The Architecture Department establishes an intellectual context for students to interpret the relation of form, space, program, materials and media to human life and thought. Through the Architecture curriculum, students participate in the ongoing shaping of knowledge about the built environment and learn to see architecture as one among many forms of cultural production. At the same time, the major stresses the necessity of learning disciplinary-specific tools, methods, terms and critiques. Thus, work in the studio, lecture or seminar asks that students treat architecture as a form of research and speculation which complement the liberal arts mission of expansive thinking.

Columbia GSAPP’s Summer 2024 Introduction to Architecture program is held both online and in-person, allowing students to choose their preferred mode of study. The Introduction to Architecture program builds on the successes of GSAPP’s online design studios and leadership in visual studies, representation, and technology to create new opportunities for students participating from their home locations. The School’s community of faculty and students remains as strong as ever, and special hybrid lectures offered by faculty, open courses made accessible to all students across the programs, thematic selections of past lectures and conferences from the rich media archive, recommended readings from the publications team, and more.

Following a popular 2018 schedule, the RAIC is pleased to announce that the Project Management for Architects course, for those interested in the PMP®® Certification, will be taking place in additional cities across the country in 2019. Upcoming cities include: Montreal and Victoria. This two-part course will provide both project management knowledge in the context of architectural practice as well as prepare participants for the Project Management Institute’s PMP® certification exam. The course is divided over two sessions, two weeks apart, with each session running from the Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon (41 hours total).

In their Rome semester, Thomas More College sophomores traverse catacombs and cloisters, piazzas and palazzos, exploring the heart of the Christian West. The history of Christendom is written in the stones and on the ceilings, in the streets and the cemeteries, and the skyline is dominated not by skyscrapers but by the dome of St. Peter’s.

Fundamental design skills; use of precedents for understanding principles of design and natural and formal ordering systems; design development using both iterative and alternative methods of exploration in both 2-dimensions and 3-dimensions using analog and digital tools; continued development of visual and verbal communication skills.

Introduction to architectural thought. Lectures and discussions focusing on practice and ideas that have exercised a significant influence on the discourse and production of architecture and urbanism.