CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM DIAGRAM PROFESSIONAL

The MDes is a unique program of study in which urban landscape design, planning, and policy dovetail with environmental engineering, environmental science, art, and visualization. Key topics include brownfield and waterfront revitalization, sustainable and secure pedestrian environments, urban habitat design and management, and green and blue infrastructure design and planning with an emphasis handling increased storm water and tidal influx in the urban landscape. The pedagogic and research focus of the MDes is the design, implementation, and management of sustainable urban environments from the scale of individual parcels to regional systems. The program seeks to supply graduates for the rapidly growing field of sustainable urbanism through a dynamic curricular mix of design, dialogue, and technical courses, enriched by diverse interdisciplinary electives.

CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM DIAGRAM PROFESSIONAL

The Master of Design for Sustainable Urban Environments (MDes-SUEN) brings together the allied professional fields of environmental design, landscape architecture, and urban planning to offer advanced study and research opportunities in the design of ecologically and economically productive urban environments. Master of Design for Sustainable Urban Environments We seek to have students leave our program with a unique balance of technical, theoretical, and strategic tools to make a real difference in the profession. There is also a unique course that looks at case studies of architecture firms in practice, problem solving, and innovation. In addition to studio courses, graduate students take seminars in architectural theory and design strategy and electives are available in real estate development, sustainable building techniques, urban landscape, and other topics. The final degree project in the design studio offers an opportunity to leverage this research with real innovations in hybrid types, strategic alterations to existing ones, and to take on the challenge of finding prototypical solutions for systemic problems. Students take courses in urban housing, practice-integrated design, and do original research on market-driven building types. This is how we intend to move architects to the center of the discussion about the future of our cities. We find opportunities for innovation within the real estate and construction industries and current policy debates-rather than outside them. The physical and cultural context of Boston serves as a laboratory for the program’s design studios and is design focused but with a different approach than many schools. The program leverages the school’s outstanding faculty and pragmatically grounded curriculum. Northeastern University offers a Master of Architecture degree accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Gordon Institute of Engineering LeadershipĪssociate Professor and Director of the School of Architecture.

College of Social Sciences and Humanities.

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In historical Islamic architecture, rows, grids, or sequences of columns flow to infinity like trees in a forest, establishing non-hierarchical space. Fluidity in architecture is not new to this region.

Cultural architecture program diagram