Master of Architecture 2 (Two Year) Graduate Program in Architecture Southern California Institute of Architecture

Southern California Institute of Architecture -- SCI-ARC

SCI-Arc is a center of innovation and one of the nation's few independent architecture schools, offering undergraduate and graduate programs. The school is dedicated to educating architects who will imagine and shape the future.

Located in a quarter-mile long former freight depot in the Arts District in the heart of Los Angeles, SCI-Arc is distinguished by the vibrant atmosphere of its studios, providing students with a uniquely inspiring environment in which to study Architecture.

An integral part of the emerging cultural hub of a city with a tradition of architectural experimentation, the school is devoted to finding radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of today's world.

SCI-Arc offers students a unique experience as they pursue undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate degrees. The school's approximately 500 students and 80 faculty members -- most of whom are practicing architects -- work together in a fluid, non-hierarchical manner to re-think assumptions, create, explore and test the limits of architecture.

The school examines everything about the built environment -- from design and materials to culture and experience.

The school asks provocative questions to provoke new thinking and prompt new theoretical constructs.

SCI-Arc is the home of international leaders in creating the future of architecture; its students and faculty come from throughout the world.

The school invites the community into the school, to take its classes and ideas into the community; SCI-Arc is a nonprofit cultural center that is woven into the fabric of Los Angeles.

The school creates designs that change how people interact with each other and their environment. SCI-Arc understands that the power to change lives is at our fingertips.



The Graduate Program

SCI-Arc's graduate studies foster the institute's open-ended spirit of inquiry, responding to shifts in society, technology, and culture with a constantly-evolving learning environment. Faculty members and students work together to advance the next generation of the architectural discipline. The programs are led by a faculty full of practitioners and scholars actively engaged in contemporary architectural discourse and production worldwide. The graduate curriculum is continuously and dynamically shaped in a manner only available to an institution entirely devoted to architecture.

The M.Arch 2 Program

SCI-Arc's M.Arch 2 program is a NAAB-accredited, two-year, five-term, professional Master of Architecture program, open to applicants with a minimum of a four year degree in Architecture, or its equivalent abroad.

The aim of the M.Arch 2 program is the reappraisal of architecture, and is specifically designed to build upon and reconsider knowledge gained from a prior undergraduate degree in architecture. Students are introduced to an advanced critical perspective on contemporary architectural issues as a tool with which to examine the complex and shifting relationship between architecture and cultural, political, economic and social change.

The program investigates the contemporary architectural platform and operates as a laboratory to identify new possibilities for the integration of emerging techniques and technologies. Students learn the latest developments in fabrication and gain an understanding of design methodologies and their historical and contemporary contexts. Upon completing the three term core sequence, students are able to choose from vertical studios and elective seminars that either continue the focus of their core studies or broaden the scope of their educations.

Students complete their studies with presentations, in public exhibitions, of their thoroughly researched independent architectural theses.

SCI-Arc's faculty and are recognized leaders in the field, and include architects Eric Owen Moss, Ming Fung, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Tom Wiscombe, Andrew Zago, Elena Manferdini, Peter Testa, Marcelyn Gow, Marcelo Spina.

• Tuition & Fees
• In-state tuition *$30,250
• Out-of-state tuition *$30,250
• International student tuition$33,276
• * Tuition for full-time graduate student per academic year
• Fees
• Per-academic year fees$700.00
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• * Fees for full-time graduate students
• Financial Support
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