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Required courses in design and visualization, technology and practice, history and theory, urban studies, and visual studies support the studios.

A number of support courses are required during the three-year curriculum. During the fall and spring terms of third year, students, through a lottery system, are at liberty to choose from a variety of advanced design studios, many of which are led by the profession’s leading practitioners and theoreticians. The fall term of second year undertakes the design of a public building, and the spring term of second year is devoted to urbanism. During the spring term of first year and until mid-June, a community building project is undertaken, which provides an opportunity for the design of an affordable house as well as the experience of carrying the design through the building process when the class builds a final design. Architectural design problems in the first year start in the fall term at limited scale and by the spring term progress to an investigation of dwelling. Entering students, with a sound liberal arts background assumed, are required to follow a curriculum in which their creative powers are stimulated through a sequence of problem-solving exercises involving basic and architectural design, building technology, freehand and computer-assisted drawing, and an introduction to design methodologies, as well as courses in architectural theory and the planning, design, and development of the urban landscape.

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