Architecture Degrees Online

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The Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture (PLA) includes five professional degree programs which allow the department to engage in a full spectrum of land and community management, planning, and design studies. We invite you to explore the individual web sites for each of the programs. These web sites go into further detail regarding the mission, faculty, curriculum, resources, contact information and other specifics about each program.

Architecture is a great field of study for those who are artistically talented and interested in creative design and the built environment. Clemson’s program allows students to tap into their creative talents, introduces them to the challenging world of building design and construction, and prepares them to pursue a master’s degree in architecture and other fields. Clemson students develop critical thinking, research and analysis skills, and an ability to engage theory and culture with an understanding of how these forces work together in the built environment

The first two years of the program introduce skills which prepare students for Fluid Campus by training them in design, drawing, 3D modeling and communication. Computer integration in the design studios is emphasized in the second year. First- and second-year students are trained in communication through a joint program with the Department of Communication Studies.

After developing a solid foundation, students are able to participate in two or more of four centers (Clemson, Charleston, Genoa, and Barcelona). Financial support is available.

Students have access to a full range of course offerings in each of the University’s five academic colleges. While developing skills in design, drawing, computer applications and construction, students also study history, theory, social science and humanities.

An interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Planning, Design and the Built Environment, with concentration areas in Architecture, is offered through the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.
For students from Architecture or the allied design disciplines, the Ph.D. has three areas of particular interest:
Architecture + Health (contact Dr. Dina Battisto)
nimated Architecture (design research in advanced materials, systems and information technologies for the built environment; contact Dr. Keith Evan Green and visit Animated Architecture)
Design/Build (research in appropriate technology and community economic development; field work in community building, contact Dr. Ted Cavanagh)
Tuition and living stipend is frequently offered to highly qualified students, judged on the basis of their application for admissions.

Within the framework of the Master of Architecture degree, the Architecture + Health Concentration includes seminar courses and studio work appropriate for both a general professional degree and a concentration in architecture + health. The intent of the A+H concentration, which is the most structured and established program of its type in the United States, is to develop the generalist-specialist graduate who can creatively work in both modes. The curriculum concentration includes both the study of health facility design and the study of relationships between architectural settings and their impact on human health and well-being. The primary purpose of the concentration is to study how architectural environments impact health and how to create architectural settings that support the health and well-being of individuals and larger populations.

Studio design projects and seminar courses examine architecture-health relationships for settings and conditions ranging from entire communities to specific projects and individual spaces. The emphasis in the studio is on design excellence within the framework of the complex demands found in the practice of health-care architecture. Student work must stand up critically at all levels of architectural consideration.

The architecture + health concentration is demanding in the scope of its professional studies, with most of the course work designated for specific areas of learning. Students may take advantage of off-campus programs during their first semester of study. Given the number of required courses, students may elect to opt for a five-semester plan of study beginning in the spring semester. The thesis, developed during the final year of study, usually deals with particular architectural topics as they relate to health and well-being.

The Master of Architecture is a professional degree program that develops proficiency in responding to contemporary architectural issues through a range of practical and theoretical knowledge. The major emphasis is on design, accompanied by complementary course work in a professional focus and elective subjects.

Prior to the final year of study all students have the opportunity to participate in the Fluid Campus by studying for a semester in one our off-campus programs. Current offerings for graduate students are the Charleston Architecture Center in Charleston, SC or the Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy. Please open the links in “Fluid Campus” above for more specific information about these programs.