Master's in Architecture / Master's in Urban Planning
The expanding field of urban design has increased the demand for the dual Master's in Architecture/Master's in Urban Planning degree. The dual degree offers a unique opportunity for students to pursue graduate education for professional certification in both fields. Students seeking dual degrees take joint studios offered by Professors Hiro Hata, Robert Shibley, or Ernest Sternberg. In these studios, graduate students from both architecture and planning engage in projects using regional cities and towns as learning laboratory sites. Students develop proposals for change in collaboration with the constituencies of the learning lab sites. In the process, students learn about planning, architecture, and intervention in an integrated fashion.
Admittance to the M.Arch./M.U.P. Program
Students must apply to and gain admittance separately to both the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Department of Architecture. Aplications should specify that the student is applying to the dual M.Arch./M.U.P. program.
Curriculum
Working with a faculty advisor, dual degree students tailor a program of study upon entrance to the program. The curriculum for the MArch/MUP degree includes required courses in both the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Department of Architecture, joint studios taken by students from each department, and a culminating thesis or professional project that meets the needs of each program.
By the third semester of study, all MUP students, including dual degree students, must either declare an option to pursue one of the five specialization options, or they must opt to pursue one of two interdisciplinary approaches.
Students who hold a four-year pre-professional degree in Architecture are eligible for Program A, which permits them to earn the degrees of Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Planning in three years. Students who hold a Bachelor degree in an unrelated field are eligible for Program B, which permits them to earn the Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) and Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.) in four and one-half years.
