printGraduate Degree Programs (M.ARCH)
Hsinming Fung, Program Director
SCI-Arc's graduate studies foster the school's open-ended spirit of inquiry, responding to shifts in society, technology and culture with a constantly-evolving learning environment in which faculty and advanced-level students work together to move toward the next generation of the Architectural discipline. The programs are led by a faculty of practitioners and scholars actively engaged in contemporary architectural discourse and production worldwide, working in fields ranging from design and engineering, to visual and cultural studies. Through the feedback they provide from their own practices, the graduate curriculum is continuously and dynamically shaped in a manner only available to an institution entirely devoted to Architecture. The graduate programs promote cross-pollination from other fields of study in a critical manner, with a practice that derives from an emphasis on process and a synthesis of thinking, inquiry and execution. With a diverse and international student body, the graduate programs at SCI-Arc provide a rigorous architectural education that promotes experimentation and creative freedom, and is at once global and local, comprehensive and current. In pursuit of these goals, the graduate programs offer four study options: the three-year M.Arch 1 program, the two-year M.Arch 2 program and the one-year SCIFI and MediaSCAPES programs.