Architecture (M.Arch)
What our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in NYC and worldwide
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The NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture (MArch) program at Parsons engages with the constructed environment and advances an architectural practice that directly addresses the interlinking challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social injustice through sustainability-focused methods including the use of regenerative materials. Your curriculum centers on the creative interplay of thinking and making, manual and digital work, and local and global scales of operation. Working in the heart of New York City, you collaborate with communities and organizations and serve as an agent of change through project-based learning. You work at the forefront of materials-based practices, balancing pragmatism with invention to design a regenerative and socially just global future.
The MArch curriculum focuses on contemporary issues directly affecting the field, ranging from new representational techniques to sustainable built and natural systems. Courses draw on Parsons’ network of municipal and institutional partners, local practitioners, and commercial clients, providing students with internship, design competition, and research funding opportunities. New York City provides you with a comprehensive context in which to gain design-build experience and explore architecture’s formal and sociopolitical dimensions.
The Making Center, a spacious studio bringing together creative tools from around the university, offers students unprecedented opportunities to acquire industry-ready skills, transform how products are made, and upend conventional notions of supply chains, local production, mass customization, and craft.
Graduates have pursued careers in sustainability and resiliency, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, and architecture. They have opened their own practices and joined prominent firms, including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, LEVENBETTS, Bernheimer Architecture, Gensler, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, BIG, and Snǿhetta.
Discover what our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in NYC and worldwide.
Research is integral to the Parsons learning experience, and students and faculty work together to challenge existing paradigms and advance emerging scholarship and practice. Explore the thematic research laboratories housed at Parsons and throughout The New School.
Connect to the organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs driving global creativity and commerce. In classes, internships, and extracurricular projects, you gain marketable problem-solving skills in sectors ranging from government and nonprofits to tech and creative industries.
New York City’s thriving creative industry and cultural institutions are part of your Parsons education. Our Career Services Office is enmeshed in the art and design industries and can help you advance your career with industry-oriented internships.
Funds are earmarked for graduate travel, research, and work to support your study. Opportunities include paid teaching assistantships, research fellowships and assistantships (including ones offered throughout The New School), ample student employment, and other grants available to U.S. domestic and international students alike.
Enjoy access to extensive resources including New School libraries, computer labs, archives, and studios, along with Parsons’ state-of-the-art Making Center, facilities offering a broad array of tools to support your creative and academic growth.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
