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Design Studio

At the core of an architectural education is the design studio, during which students are immersed in hands-on, project-based courses where they build visual literacy, learn design skills, test ideas, and receive continuous, personal feedback on their work from studio faculty.

During Design Studio, students hone design and technical expertise while employing advanced tools and technologies in the development of projects which fuse together concepts of space, aesthetics, architectural theory, and materiality, among others.

Heading titleA Transformative Design Trajectory

SCI-Arc’s M.Arch 2 curriculum is structured around Design Studio. Students will enroll in one design studio course each semester while in the program.

Beginning with a two-semester core sequence of design studios and seminar courses, M.Arch 2 courses challenge students to employ advanced tools, techniques, and software while refining design skillsets for speculative architectural production.

Students continue on to two semesters of Vertical Studios which match small, combined groups of students from SCI-Arc’s undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs with faculty and visiting architects leading design projects that explore a wide variety of focuses and interests. Applied research in advanced studios and seminars in the final semesters of the program prepare students for Graduate Thesis.

In their final semester of Design Studio, students complete the production of a thesis project, which addresses a position in relation to contemporary architectural discourse.

purple teal white birds eye isometric rendering on site

M.Arch 2 student project

Heading titleTaught by World-Renowned Practicing Architects

SCI-Arc’s studio faculty is primarily comprised of practicing architects, who provide a window into the lives of the profession, as well as opportunities for professional internships and employment outside the school.

During studio hours, SCI-Arc faculty meet with students individually and in groups to discuss the progression of their design projects. Through these collaborative discussions, students learn to engage in an open exchange of ideas with faculty and fellow students, building the life-long relationships that will serve them throughout their careers.

green white and pink sectional oblique drawing SCI-Arc section oblique drawing by student
multicolor architecture section SCI-Arc Section by Christina Griggs and Sixtina Maculan
red blue white architecture model SCI-Arc SPRING SHOW MODELS 224
pink and grey building render

Axonometric render by Manying Wang and Juicheng Hung

Andrea Cadioli

SCI-Arc taught me the importance of being software-agnostic, able to migrate between multiple platforms and be curious about new potential technology that is available to me. By losing the constraints of a limited skillset, I use technology to not only express my design intentions but also investigate possibilities I have not yet conceived.

Andrea Cadioli M.Arch 2
grey orange architecture model SCI-Arc SPRING SHOW MODELS 267
multicolored architecture render SCI-Arc 2 GBX DS Elena Manferdini Jiaoyue Zhao Kaiying Lin Model zoomin
grey architecture render building SCI-Arc 2 GAX Kolatan FA19 Celik Burak Klinghoffer Jonah BD 01
architecture diagram drawings mens haircuts SCI-Arc Monday submission
scifi cloudy desert man spaceship SCI-Arc Saleh Jamsheer Saleh Jamsheer
grey architecture diagram drawing SCI-Arc G Thesis Koreitem SP20 Guerrero Wendy 003
isometric digram of architecture students model

Isometric diagram by M.Arch 2 student