M.Arch. professional Architectural Design at Cornell University
This one-and-a-half-year course of study is open to individuals holding a B.Arch or first-professional M.Arch degree, this three-semester advanced design research program offers a critical framework for investigating pertinent concerns, practices, and technologies in 21st-century architecture. A curriculum of core and elective studios and courses structures individual trajectories of inquiry within five territories of investigation: architecture and urbanism; architecture and ecology; architecture and technology; architecture and discourse; and architecture and media.
Only students who have satisfactorily completed an accredited undergraduate professional program for the Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) or the professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) degrees, or their foreign equivalents, may be admitted as candidates for the post-professional degree of Master of Architecture. Those who have yet to receive a qualifying professional degree, should apply as transfer students to the undergraduate program. After fulfilling the requirements for the B.Arch. degree, they can apply to the graduate program in design. Applicants who already have a nonprofessional four-year undergraduate degree should apply to the professional Architecture (M.Arch. professional) program.