波士顿建筑学院

The Bachelor of Science in Architecture is a 4-year pre-professional undergraduate degree that leads to the BAC's accelerated 2-Year Master of Architecture. Our innovative approach to education integrates ongoing, real-world design practice with traditional classroom learning.

Integrated building systems and technology courses investigate how buildings perform. History and theory courses place current work into dialogue with other times and places. Design studios build students' capacity to integrate ideas and envision new conditions supported by drawing and making courses. Media courses harness the power of digital and physical making, offering a visual language to communicate ideas. Liberal education employs the arts, humanities, and sciences to explore our place in the world. All students receive guidance in pursuit of concurrent practice experience in design firms, community projects, research, and independent projects.

The curriculum is divided into foundation, integration, and synthesis. Students in Foundation acquire beginning knowledge, abilities, and understanding in both professional and liberal studies education necessary for all undergraduates. For the first year this is in a transdisciplinary setting. Later, students explore in depth and breadth the field of architectural design. Emphasis is on integrating skills, knowledge, and understanding. For this reason courses are sometimes paired. For instance a student designing a building for studio will use it as a case study for a building technology class. At the end of the program, students are able to draw upon a wealth of academic, professional and extracurricular knowledge and tie it together through an in-depth architectural project. These projects are as individualistic as their makers because students have freedom to research their particular passions and bring them to a project they invent for themselves.