Architecture Degrees Online

The Architecture Department offers a Bachelor of Architecture degree. This degree program, accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB), is a five year “first professional degree” program, a pre-requisite for licensing as a registered architect in most states. Architecture epitomizes the “learn-by-doing” pedagogy that is fundamental to Cal Poly. The program is rigorous, lab oriented, and sequential in nature and reflects a balance and integration of design and technology – the theoretical and the pragmatic. The fourth year offers qualified students the opportunity to study off-campus. The fifth year is a selected year long project and final exhibit that salutes the architectural creativity of each individual’s extended research and design.

The administration, faculty and staff are committed to the program and its primary emphasis on teaching excellence at the undergraduate level. The unusual size of the program and the diversity of faculty interests and accomplishments offer a vast palette of directions, concerns and issues as backgrounds for studio work.

The location of the program within the College provides cross-disciplinary opportunities in the areas of Landscape Architecture, Construction Management, City & Regional Planning and Architectural Engineering.

The Architecture Program integrates critical, artistic, and material approaches to the study and practice of architecture.

The five-year, NAAB-accredited* program is committed to experiments in alternative models of practice, design, and fabrication. The curriculum accordingly brings developments in culture, media, and technology to bear on the process of architectural production, allowing students to capitalize on new opportunities in a rapidly changing profession.

Our metropolitan setting informs the educational experience; the city of San Francisco functions as an urban laboratory, inspiring new ways to configure and inhabit architecture. Throughout their studies, students are encouraged to collaborate within and across disciplines to take full advantage of CCA’s studio culture. The program actively seeks the participation of leading international figures for studio instruction, juried reviews, and an ambitious lecture series.

The facilities on the San Francisco campus include dedicated studios with a wireless network infrastructure, a suite of fully equipped shops for various scales and media of fabrication, and four computer labs with the latest hardware and software. The New Materials Resource Center offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of samples and is the only library of its kind housed at an art school.

Through the required internship, students have the opportunity to work at architectural firms in the United States and abroad. Architecture Program students also regularly enter and place in design competitions.

*In 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: the bachelor of architecture, the master of architecture, and the doctor of architecture. A program may be granted a six-year, three-year, or two-year term of accreditation depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.

Master’s degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. The preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

In July 2008 the Masters of Architecture Program was formally granted a three-year term of initial accreditation, effective January 1, 2008. Following the initial three-year term, at the next scheduled review in 2011, the program may receive a six-year term. CCA’s undergraduate Architecture Program is fully accredited.

In 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: the bachelor of architecture, the master of architecture, and the doctor of architecture.

A program may be granted a six-, three-, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards. Master’s degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. The preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

Architecture Podcast
In spring 2006, students in On the Air, Jordan Geiger’s interdisciplinary studio course, worked with two types of technology that involve air in architecture: pneumatics (construction) and broadcast (representation).

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Bachelor of Architecture Degree Requirements
The Bachelor of Architecture at NJIT is a first professional degree program which is fully accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB). The curriculum fulfills the educational requirements of the Architectural Registration Examination (ARE), which professionals must successfully pass in order to employ the title “architect”. The ARE is a fully computerized examination which is administered on an annual basis by the Architectural Registration Boards in each state. Students who receive their B. Arch. degree are eligible to take the ARE once they have completed an Internship Development Program (IDP). This internship is generally of three years duration, with some credit given for part-time employment.

Credit Distribution for Bachelor of Architecture Degree

Required Architecture Credits 96
Architecture Electives 15
Free Electives 9
Rutgers Drawing Course 3
General University Requirements 41

TOTAL CREDITS 164

The minimum credit requirement for graduation is the successful completion of 164 credits of prescribed courses within the curriculum; and the maintenance of a 2.0 (C) average. Students are also required to maintain a minimum of a 2.0 studio cumulative average to advance to each succeeding year of studio. Students must take one upper level studio designated as comprehensive studio. All 100, 200, 300 level architecture core courses must be completed prior to enrollment in Arch 563, 564, and 565.

Morgan’s Architecture and Environmental Design program prepares students to become critical thinkers about the forces that affect their daily lives (private sphere) and the urban environment (public sphere), thereby, equipping them with the tools to solve the design challenges of the built environment.

The mission, therefore, is to introduce critical analysis by which students can visualize and represent, graphically and verbally, detailed evaluation and assessment of architecture and the built environment. Design choices need to be informed — learning to think critically is one of the ways that students can make informed design decisions.

At the end of their matriculation students will have a foundation of critical thinking regarding architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture, and construction management. Graduates will have the knowledge, skills and ability to solve complex problems in the professional world. In addition, students will be prepared for enrollment in any academic program at the graduate level.

The Bachelor of Science in Architecture & Environmental Design (BSAED) program is an important and meaningful part of the Institute of Architecture & Planning (IAP). The BSAED is a four-year pre-professional degree program structured to integrate planning and design elements of the built and natural environment with the professional ability to produce a meaningful response to the changing needs of urban society patterned by a wide cultural background. The program content is based on a comprehensive examination of issues in design and the built environment.

In an effort to fulfill the mission of the undergraduate program, the BSAED has required 125 credit hours for completion of core, concentration, and general education courses. The first four (4) semesters of courses offered in the undergraduate program define two years of knowledge attainment and skills building in environmental history, visual graphics, design and planning theory, research and problem solving, report writing, and public presentation techniques and general education studies. The final four (4) semesters are an advanced exploration of design and planning primarily through lecture and studio courses and on-site field work.