Graduate Urban Design

The Master of Science, Architecture and Urban Design (Post-Professional) is a three-semester (summer, fall, spring), 33 credit post-professional program in urban design for students holding a five-year, or equivalent, professional degree in architecture. There is a culmination project in the third semester.

The field of urban design is undergoing significant change. The expansion and contraction of, and increasingly intricate economic and cultural exchanges between cities suggest that new forms of analysis and design are needed. Urban design has historically been more closely aligned with architecture than with urban planning, but neither alone can reach the heart of urbanism.

As with the M. Arch. II program at Pratt, the purpose of the Urban Design Program is to help students articulate, in visual and discursive ways, their long-term work in the discipline and practice. This approach helps determine where the student’s individual work kits in the larger arena of the discipline. The program exposes students to the best, most thoughtful, and inventive work in the field: new computer mapping and visualization technologies, theoretical debates, interdisciplinary views and practice, and methodological developments.