Architecture (M.Arch)
Architecture MArch
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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.
Program Highlights
Urban Focus
Design for sites critical to New York City’s evolution and consider issues related to infrastructure, public space, housing, and other matters of key importance to urban centers.Distinctive Design Workshop
Work in collaborative teams to design and construct architectural projects, from concept idea to material reality, exploring innovative solutions for transforming the constructed environment.Innovative Approaches
Learn to contend with demands imposed by use, site, context, structure, and construction while gaining insights into architecture’s pivotal role in shaping culture.Creative Collaboration
Share shops and studio spaces with students from related programs in Industrial Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Fine Arts, and Textiles, fostering interdisciplinary work.Dual-Degree Option
Develop a deep understanding of the relationship between architecture and light with the four-year dual degree combining the MArch with Parsons’ MFA Lighting Design.Applicant Profile
This professional degree program welcomes a dynamic cohort of students holding a pre-professional undergraduate degree in architecture, a Bachelor of Architecture degree, or a four-year non-architecture degree.
- DegreeMaster of Architecture (MArch)
- FormatFull-time, on campus
- Credits90
- Duration3 years
- Other program statusSTEM-designated
Curriculum
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.
Making Center
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.
Career Paths
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.
Student Work
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Lighting Design (MFA), Architecture (M.Arch), Architecture (M.Arch) / Lighting Design (MFA), Architecture and Lighting Design (M.Arch/MFA)
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Parsons faculty represent a broad range of expertise and are acknowledged as leading practitioners and scholars in their fields.
Beyond the Classroom
Research Labs
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.
Industry Engagement
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.
Internships
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.
Funded Opportunities
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.
Making & Academic Resources
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.
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