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Master of Architecture
Program
- Two programs are
offered:
- the "plus2march"
program for students with pre-professional architecture
degrees
- the "MArch"
program for students who hold a professional degree such as the
Bachelor of Architecture or its equivalent.
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- The
three fundamental purposes of these programs
are:
- to provide
students with a competitive edge of advanced knowledge and
skill;
- to provide
study choices that support career interests and address
societal issues;
- to make fully
available the Los Angeles region as an instructive laboratory
for advanced architectural studies.
- The focus of
the programs is on architecture in cities throughout the world
where conditions of increasing density require design
initiatives that support amenity, sustainability, and cultural
meaning. This is a serious search given the disconnectedness
and banality of modern cities, their continuing haphazard
growth and development, and their wastefulness with regard to
natural resources and societal potential.
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- Design and Research
Directions
- Within an
overall consideration of urban life, five sets of
investigations are fully supported by the faculty and other
resources of the University and the region:
- the
opportunities to create more supportive urban places - amenity,
sustainability, and meaning; habitat, places of commerce and
exchange, the public realm, historic districts, open space and
the streets, circulation interchanges, and
infrastructures;
- the
transformation of building typologies - housing, cultural and
educational institutions, civic and social service facilities,
centers for health and well-being, and environments for
production, employment, and markets;
- understanding
the integral importance of technology, building sciences, and
ecology - building construction, materials and methods of
assembly, structures, environmental systems, manufacturing
procedures, industrialization, energy and natural forces, and
natural systems;
- attention to
design methodologies and processes- theories of architectural
design, process structures, visual communication, computer
studies, methods and techniques of architectural simulation;
and
- investigation
of issues of theory, history, and criticism - historical
inquiry and methodology, theories of interpretation,
architectural criticism, history of ideas, cultural and social
implications.
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