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tectonic, land ethic, integration, urban, interdisciplinary, design-build, + advanced computation studios
master of architecture
honed in the desert
cutting-edge material + environmental research
The School of Architecture at the University of Arizona is devoted to professional education of architects and combines a place-based design approach, honed in the extreme climate and exquisite landscape of the Sonoran desert, with cutting-edge material and environmental research and hands-on learning. The School values architecture as the intertwining of sensible, technical, historical,
m.arch
that includes future oriented research and a design project.
of our time and place, Master of Architecture students develop a portable global sensibility, empowering them to develop critical modes of practice in our region and
3+ year: non-architecture baccalaureate degree
m.arch II
2+ year: pre-professional, undergraduate architecture degree
m.arch I
1+ year: NAAB-Accredited Bachelor of Architecture degree.
support topics that allow for the mastery of fundamentals and critical practice. The curriculum culminates in a master’s project
practice. While inflected by place, material circumstances, and expressive of the ethos
m.arch III
a carefully orchestrated series of design studios and synthesized advanced processes with the experimentation required for
intellectual and aesthetic activities. Architecture to this end is a research based creative
around the globe.
The 1-3 year Master of Architecture curriculum is formed around
+ mla + msp + ms.arch
While at the UA, architecture students have opportunities to participate in interdisciplinary studios with master of landscape architecture and planning students and may pursue double degrees in Landscape Architecture (MLA) or Planning (MSP), in the Master of Science in Architecture program (MS.Arch), or earn a Certificate in Heritage Conservation.
design studio
The design studio is the heart of architectural education. All students participate in a summer immersion studio to become familiar with Tucson, campus, CAPLA’s resources, and to develop fundamental design thinking and making abilities. M.Arch III students continue into the foundation year, introducing them to design practices, to structural, environmental, and material properties and principles, site and program, and contemporary issues and theories related to the built environment. The second year of the program, when M.Arch II students join in, builds upon these foundations with more advanced courses with the aim of students integrating their understanding into the design of comprehensive projects of medium to large scale public buildings.
The final year is an opportunity for students to tune their studio experience and education towards individual areas of research. During the fall semester students select from a spectrum of “vertical” design studio options around topics and methods such as design-build, advanced digital technology applications, interdisciplinary and community engaged projects, and urban scale issues. Over the year students also develop their Masters Project, with preparatory research in the fall and dedicated design studio in the spring.
Throughout the Master of Architecture curriculum students also take courses in theories and history of architecture, develop design communication abilities, and an understanding of the many facets of the professional practice of architecture.
technology
Each semester studio is complimented by parallel courses in technology (structures, materials and methods, and environmental controls), in design communications, history and theory, and professional practice. Our structures teaching is unique in its focus on physical modeling, testing and breaking of structures. Materials and methods teaching pairs hands on exploration of materials with hand and digital drawing and modeling explorations of assemblies. Similarly in environmental controls courses, we both test physical models in the energy lab while simulating environmental conditions digitally. Particularly in environmental controls and the materials and methods courses students gain familiarity with sustainable practices in relation to the region’s climate and traditional material practices while experimenting with and testing new materials and methods in the design of a “well-tempered” architecture.
materials lab
Central to teaching at CAPLA are the laboratories. The Materials Lab is world class—with CNC laser cutting, 3D printing and milling capacity, vacuum forming, and separate shop areas for metals, wood, casting, and working with glass, ceramics and plastics in addition to traditional materials.
energy lab
The Energy Lab, including a wind tunnel, heliodon, and overcast sky simulator, is integral to the fundamentals of the environment course and it supports studio work as well as being home to the MS.Arch in Energy Conservation Program, with several courses in the Energy Lab being open to Master of Architecture students.
R: Domin L: Smith
Graduate Architecture Faculty Dr. Nader Chalfour, Prof., MS.Arch Christopher Domin, Assoc. Prof.
Reimer
Darci Hazelbaker, lecturer Michael Kothke, lecturer Valerie Lane, lecturer Brad Lang, lecturer
L: Kothke
R: Lasch
Chris Lasch, lecturer
R: Weinstein
Critical Practice Regional Architecture Pedagogy of Practice Education related to Design-Build Design + Energy Conservation Advanced Material Technologies Advanced Computation + Design Methodologies File to CNC Fabrication Processes History + Theory of Architecture Housing, Campus architecture + other building typologies Experimental + Lightweight Structures Future Cities / Desert Cities Design for resiliency in relation to Climate Change Urban Issues of Borderlands Art + Urban Activism Theater + Performance Space Design + Theory Place + Wellbeing
Jason Griffiths, lecturer
L: Rosano
Faculty Research Areas
Bill Mackey, lecturer Wil Peterson, lecturer Paul Reimer, lecturer Dr. Clare Robinson, Asst. Prof. Teresa Rosano, lecturer Dr. Lisa Shrenk, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shane Smith, Asst. Prof., MS.Arch Beth Weinstein, Assoc. Prof., Chair
CAPLA SoA Master of Architecture Curriculum immersion: M.Arch III
CAPLA SoA Master of Architecture Curriculum
design fundamentals
core + comprehensive design
advanced design + research topics
510a design I: immersion
immersion: M.Arch II
core + comprehensive design
advanced design + research topics
510d adv. design I:
510f adv design III:
509a design I: immersion
510b design studio II
510c design studio III
510d adv. design I:
510e adv deisgn II:
comprehensive I
510f adv design III: vertical studios* or comprehensive III
comprehensive II
909 master project
510e adv deisgn II:
comprehensive I
909 master project prep 520a structures I
520e structure II
design comm I
520g structure III
520e structure II
520f environments II
520f environments II
520d m + m II
520d m + m II
530 history/theory I ***
531 history/theory II *** 533 history/theory III ***
529 intro hist built env.
design comm II
design comm III
design comm I/II
526 site plan + analysis
541 contract doc
541 contract doc
elective elective
m arch milestone 15
18
7
15
***
comprehensive design III: 4th year undergrad / 3rd year grad comprehensive design project mixed studio for students not meeting M. Arch milestone goals history theory: Intro to Built Enviro: no AP option. Possibility to AP out of Hist I - III by exam; students will be req’d to take other graduate level HT electives to meet requirement of 4 HT courses. Of these four, three must be within CAPLA.
master of architecture curriculum
m.arch III
3+ year: non-architecture baccalaureate degree
18
15
15 15 core + advanced: 70 total
* Students with similar UG Architetural History + Theory may apply for advanced placement by examination, and take other graduate H/T or electives in their place.
15 15 core + advanced: 63 total 103 total : intro + 3-yr 70 total : intro + 2-yr advanced design I + II: comprehensive projects: fall: Tucson/desert site/climate; may be other density/climate. Medium scale; one min. mixed use/spans/systems ie housing; one min. with public assembly / longspan. 40 total : introcritical + 1-yrissues vertical studios: 5th year undergrad / 3rd year grad / LA P Grad mixed studios of various topics + methods: design build, interdisciplinary, urban, digital focus, new technologies, fundamentals: 33 - 40 total
*
533 history/theory III *
550c ethics + practice
elective elective
18
531 history/theory II *
530 history/theory I *
design comm III
550c ethics + practice
527 programming
7
520g structure III
m.arch milestone
529 intro hist built env.
909 master project prep
520c environments I 520b mm1
909 master project
vertical studios or comprehensive III
comprehensive II
m.arch II
master of architecture curriculum 2+ year: pre-professional, undergraduate architecture degree
design studio-related study tours + semester|summer abroad CAPLA offers a 5-week summer program in Orvieto, Italy, that the School of Architecture is now developing into a full semester program. The 2014 Orvieto summer session focused on structural innovations in Italian architecture, in addition to a summer living in an Italian hill town, with excursions to visit Renaissance masterworks by Brunelleschi in Florence, ancient and Baroque structures in Rome, to works by Veneto architect Carlo Scarpa, and the Venice Biennale. In 2014 a second summer session in Chile focused on South American modern architecture and urbanism, with travels from Santiago to the Atacama Desert. The summer session in 2015 will travel to Scandinavia, with an emphasis on high-performance and sustainable architecture. For more about those trips see #caplastudyabroad. The School of Architecture also partners with several schools of architecture in Australia, plus Auckland, Copenhagen, Liverpool, and others for semester long exchanges programs. In addition to these extended travels, courses regularly include research trips within the region and to contrasting natural and urban environments such as New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Mexico City.
CAPLA Lecture Series 2014–2015 LECTURE SERIES:
M.Arch Master Classes
The College’s Lecture Series offers an
Critical Practice
opportunity for our students, the very
KENNETH FRAMPTON
in the future, to listen, learn and
Professor | Columbia University
GRACE LA Architect, Professor | Harvard GSD
Each year several guest speakers participating in the CAPLA lecture series offer a master class or seminar for students in the Master of Architecture Program.
people who will impact our professions dialogue with some of the most soughtafter people related to our professions.
PETER STUTCHBURY Architect | Syndey, Australia
RANDOLPH HESTER
The 2014–2015 LECTURE SERIES:
Prof. Emeritus | UC Berkeley
Critical
TOD WILLIAMS + BILLIE TSIEN
contemporary critical practices in
Principals, TWBTA | NYC
ANDREA COCHRAN
Practice
focuses
on
architecture, landscape architecture,
Landscape Architect | San Francisco
and planning. Our speakers present
DAVID BENJAMIN
their approaches to architectural theory
ONE Lab Architects | Brooklyn, NY
and practice—to advanced topics,
MARLON BLACKWELL FAIA Distinguished Prof. | Univ. of Arkansas
JENNIFER DILL Prof. of Urban Studies + Planning | Portland State Univ.
ANDREW FREEAR Director of Rural Studio | Auburn Univ.
CHRISTOPHER LEINBERGER
Center for Real Estate + Urban Analysis | GW Univ.
AARON GOLUB
Associate Professor | Arizona State University
methodologies, and agenda pertinent to today and our future—first hand.
This tradition initiated in the spring of 2012 with a series of seminars with Finish Architect, professor and author of The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa. The tradition has continued with a seminar around the topic of urban interventions and activism with Professor Dana Cuff (UCLA) and on the topic of Comparative Critical Analysis with Professor Kenneth Frampton, author of the forthcoming Genealogy of Modern Architecture: A Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (Columbia University GSAPP). Architect Steve Christer (Studio Granda, Reykjavik) led a sketch design problem around the absence and presence of water. Most recently Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (TWBTA, New York) had students and faculty return to the unpredictable practice of drawing by hand, probing invisible spaces with mind and pencil.
opportunities for leadership and contribution through student organizations • Student Council: represents students to the college administration. • AIAS: The School’s very active AIAS chapter is both a social club and a service organization. It has more than 45 members. Regular events sponsored by AIAS include: Photography Competition
Portfolio Charrette (two seminars with local professionals) Faculty Dinner Auctions (fund raiser) Tucson and Phoenix Firm Crawls (jointly sponsored w/ AIAS at ASU) Beaux Arts Ball Canstruction (an AIA-Southern Arizona community event) First Year/Fourth Year Mentorship Program Architecture + Firm Tours, including: Rob Paulus Architects, Rick Joy Architects, DUST Design Build, and Richard + Bauer
• Freedom by Design: a AIAS community service program that utilizes the talents of architecture students to impact the lives of people in the community through modest design and construction solutions. • USGBC: in collaboration with the University’s Office of Sustainability, the UA chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council meets biweekly and its current projects include: The Lutron Lighting Upgrade Program
Engagement with Habitat for Humanity
Where are our grads working now?
Adrian Smith Gordon Gill Perkins and Will (Chicago), Lake|Flato (Austin), Gluck+ (New York), Architecture International (San Francisco), SRG (Portland), Tate Snyder Kimsey (Reno), MulvannyG2 architecture (Bellevue, WA), KG + D Architecture (D.C.), Boulder Associates (Sacramento), Construction Zone (Phoenix), Seaver Franks, Repp Mclain Design and Construction, SEI Design Group, Line and Space, and Rob Paulus Architects (Tucson). Several are continuing at the UA to earn a second degree: Master of Landscape Architecture or Master of Science in Planning. Others have begun their own design-build practices and have broken ground on several projects.
Amy Moraga Program Coordinator Graduate Programs [email protected] 520.621.9819 Beth Weinstein M.Arch Program Chair Associate Professor [email protected] 520.626.6324 ca pla .a r izona .edu
university of arizona school of architecture
master of architecture
master of architecture
honed in the desert
cutting-edge material + environmental research
The School of Architecture at the University of Arizona is devoted to professional education of architects and combines a place-based design approach, honed in the extreme climate and exquisite landscape of the Sonoran desert, with cutting-edge material and environmental research and hands-on learning. The School values architecture as the intertwining of sensible, technical, historical,
m.arch
that includes future oriented research and a design project.
of our time and place, Master of Architecture students develop a portable global sensibility, empowering them to develop critical modes of practice in our region and
3+ year: non-architecture baccalaureate degree
m.arch II
2+ year: pre-professional, undergraduate architecture degree
m.arch I
1+ year: NAAB-Accredited Bachelor of Architecture degree.
support topics that allow for the mastery of fundamentals and critical practice. The curriculum culminates in a master’s project
practice. While inflected by place, material circumstances, and expressive of the ethos
m.arch III
a carefully orchestrated series of design studios and synthesized advanced processes with the experimentation required for
intellectual and aesthetic activities. Architecture to this end is a research based creative
around the globe.
The 1-3 year Master of Architecture curriculum is formed around
+ mla + msp + ms.arch
While at the UA, architecture students have opportunities to participate in interdisciplinary studios with master of landscape architecture and planning students and may pursue double degrees in Landscape Architecture (MLA) or Planning (MSP), in the Master of Science in Architecture program (MS.Arch), or earn a Certificate in Heritage Conservation.
design studio
The design studio is the heart of architectural education. All students participate in a summer immersion studio to become familiar with Tucson, campus, CAPLA’s resources, and to develop fundamental design thinking and making abilities. M.Arch III students continue into the foundation year, introducing them to design practices, to structural, environmental, and material properties and principles, site and program, and contemporary issues and theories related to the built environment. The second year of the program, when M.Arch II students join in, builds upon these foundations with more advanced courses with the aim of students integrating their understanding into the design of comprehensive projects of medium to large scale public buildings.
The final year is an opportunity for students to tune their studio experience and education towards individual areas of research. During the fall semester students select from a spectrum of “vertical” design studio options around topics and methods such as design-build, advanced digital technology applications, interdisciplinary and community engaged projects, and urban scale issues. Over the year students also develop their Masters Project, with preparatory research in the fall and dedicated design studio in the spring.
Throughout the Master of Architecture curriculum students also take courses in theories and history of architecture, develop design communication abilities, and an understanding of the many facets of the professional practice of architecture.
technology
Each semester studio is complimented by parallel courses in technology (structures, materials and methods, and environmental controls), in design communications, history and theory, and professional practice. Our structures teaching is unique in its focus on physical modeling, testing and breaking of structures. Materials and methods teaching pairs hands on exploration of materials with hand and digital drawing and modeling explorations of assemblies. Similarly in environmental controls courses, we both test physical models in the energy lab while simulating environmental conditions digitally. Particularly in environmental controls and the materials and methods courses students gain familiarity with sustainable practices in relation to the region’s climate and traditional material practices while experimenting with and testing new materials and methods in the design of a “well-tempered” architecture.
materials lab
Central to teaching at CAPLA are the laboratories. The Materials Lab is world class—with CNC laser cutting, 3D printing and milling capacity, vacuum forming, and separate shop areas for metals, wood, casting, and working with glass, ceramics and plastics in addition to traditional materials.
energy lab
The Energy Lab, including a wind tunnel, heliodon, and overcast sky simulator, is integral to the fundamentals of the environment course and it supports studio work as well as being home to the MS.Arch in Energy Conservation Program, with several courses in the Energy Lab being open to Master of Architecture students.
R: Domin L: Smith
Graduate Architecture Faculty Dr. Nader Chalfour, Prof., MS.Arch Christopher Domin, Assoc. Prof.
Reimer
Darci Hazelbaker, lecturer Michael Kothke, lecturer Valerie Lane, lecturer Brad Lang, lecturer
L: Kothke
R: Lasch
Chris Lasch, lecturer
R: Weinstein
Critical Practice Regional Architecture Pedagogy of Practice Education related to Design-Build Design + Energy Conservation Advanced Material Technologies Advanced Computation + Design Methodologies File to CNC Fabrication Processes History + Theory of Architecture Housing, Campus architecture + other building typologies Experimental + Lightweight Structures Future Cities / Desert Cities Design for resiliency in relation to Climate Change Urban Issues of Borderlands Art + Urban Activism Theater + Performance Space Design + Theory Place + Wellbeing
Jason Griffiths, lecturer
L: Rosano
Faculty Research Areas
Bill Mackey, lecturer Wil Peterson, lecturer Paul Reimer, lecturer Dr. Clare Robinson, Asst. Prof. Teresa Rosano, lecturer Dr. Lisa Shrenk, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shane Smith, Asst. Prof., MS.Arch Beth Weinstein, Assoc. Prof., Chair
CAPLA SoA Master of Architecture Curriculum immersion: M.Arch III
CAPLA SoA Master of Architecture Curriculum
design fundamentals
core + comprehensive design
advanced design + research topics
510a design I: immersion
immersion: M.Arch II
core + comprehensive design
advanced design + research topics
510d adv. design I:
510f adv design III:
509a design I: immersion
510b design studio II
510c design studio III
510d adv. design I:
510e adv deisgn II:
comprehensive I
510f adv design III: vertical studios* or comprehensive III
comprehensive II
909 master project
510e adv deisgn II:
comprehensive I
909 master project prep 520a structures I
520e structure II
design comm I
520g structure III
520e structure II
520f environments II
520f environments II
520d m + m II
520d m + m II
530 history/theory I ***
531 history/theory II *** 533 history/theory III ***
529 intro hist built env.
design comm II
design comm III
design comm I/II
526 site plan + analysis
541 contract doc
541 contract doc
elective elective
m arch milestone 15
18
7
15
***
comprehensive design III: 4th year undergrad / 3rd year grad comprehensive design project mixed studio for students not meeting M. Arch milestone goals history theory: Intro to Built Enviro: no AP option. Possibility to AP out of Hist I - III by exam; students will be req’d to take other graduate level HT electives to meet requirement of 4 HT courses. Of these four, three must be within CAPLA.
master of architecture curriculum
m.arch III
3+ year: non-architecture baccalaureate degree
18
15
15 15 core + advanced: 70 total
* Students with similar UG Architetural History + Theory may apply for advanced placement by examination, and take other graduate H/T or electives in their place.
15 15 core + advanced: 63 total 103 total : intro + 3-yr 70 total : intro + 2-yr advanced design I + II: comprehensive projects: fall: Tucson/desert site/climate; may be other density/climate. Medium scale; one min. mixed use/spans/systems ie housing; one min. with public assembly / longspan. 40 total : introcritical + 1-yrissues vertical studios: 5th year undergrad / 3rd year grad / LA P Grad mixed studios of various topics + methods: design build, interdisciplinary, urban, digital focus, new technologies, fundamentals: 33 - 40 total
*
533 history/theory III *
550c ethics + practice
elective elective
18
531 history/theory II *
530 history/theory I *
design comm III
550c ethics + practice
527 programming
7
520g structure III
m.arch milestone
529 intro hist built env.
909 master project prep
520c environments I 520b mm1
909 master project
vertical studios or comprehensive III
comprehensive II
m.arch II
master of architecture curriculum 2+ year: pre-professional, undergraduate architecture degree
design studio-related study tours + semester|summer abroad CAPLA offers a 5-week summer program in Orvieto, Italy, that the School of Architecture is now developing into a full semester program. The 2014 Orvieto summer session focused on structural innovations in Italian architecture, in addition to a summer living in an Italian hill town, with excursions to visit Renaissance masterworks by Brunelleschi in Florence, ancient and Baroque structures in Rome, to works by Veneto architect Carlo Scarpa, and the Venice Biennale. In 2014 a second summer session in Chile focused on South American modern architecture and urbanism, with travels from Santiago to the Atacama Desert. The summer session in 2015 will travel to Scandinavia, with an emphasis on high-performance and sustainable architecture. For more about those trips see #caplastudyabroad. The School of Architecture also partners with several schools of architecture in Australia, plus Auckland, Copenhagen, Liverpool, and others for semester long exchanges programs. In addition to these extended travels, courses regularly include research trips within the region and to contrasting natural and urban environments such as New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Mexico City.
CAPLA Lecture Series 2014–2015 LECTURE SERIES:
M.Arch Master Classes
The College’s Lecture Series offers an
Critical Practice
opportunity for our students, the very
KENNETH FRAMPTON
in the future, to listen, learn and
Professor | Columbia University
GRACE LA Architect, Professor | Harvard GSD
Each year several guest speakers participating in the CAPLA lecture series offer a master class or seminar for students in the Master of Architecture Program.
people who will impact our professions dialogue with some of the most soughtafter people related to our professions.
PETER STUTCHBURY Architect | Syndey, Australia
RANDOLPH HESTER
The 2014–2015 LECTURE SERIES:
Prof. Emeritus | UC Berkeley
Critical
TOD WILLIAMS + BILLIE TSIEN
contemporary critical practices in
Principals, TWBTA | NYC
ANDREA COCHRAN
Practice
focuses
on
architecture, landscape architecture,
Landscape Architect | San Francisco
and planning. Our speakers present
DAVID BENJAMIN
their approaches to architectural theory
ONE Lab Architects | Brooklyn, NY
and practice—to advanced topics,
MARLON BLACKWELL FAIA Distinguished Prof. | Univ. of Arkansas
JENNIFER DILL Prof. of Urban Studies + Planning | Portland State Univ.
ANDREW FREEAR Director of Rural Studio | Auburn Univ.
CHRISTOPHER LEINBERGER
Center for Real Estate + Urban Analysis | GW Univ.
AARON GOLUB
Associate Professor | Arizona State University
methodologies, and agenda pertinent to today and our future—first hand.
This tradition initiated in the spring of 2012 with a series of seminars with Finish Architect, professor and author of The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa. The tradition has continued with a seminar around the topic of urban interventions and activism with Professor Dana Cuff (UCLA) and on the topic of Comparative Critical Analysis with Professor Kenneth Frampton, author of the forthcoming Genealogy of Modern Architecture: A Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (Columbia University GSAPP). Architect Steve Christer (Studio Granda, Reykjavik) led a sketch design problem around the absence and presence of water. Most recently Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (TWBTA, New York) had students and faculty return to the unpredictable practice of drawing by hand, probing invisible spaces with mind and pencil.
opportunities for leadership and contribution through student organizations • Student Council: represents students to the college administration. • AIAS: The School’s very active AIAS chapter is both a social club and a service organization. It has more than 45 members. Regular events sponsored by AIAS include: Photography Competition
Portfolio Charrette (two seminars with local professionals) Faculty Dinner Auctions (fund raiser) Tucson and Phoenix Firm Crawls (jointly sponsored w/ AIAS at ASU) Beaux Arts Ball Canstruction (an AIA-Southern Arizona community event) First Year/Fourth Year Mentorship Program Architecture + Firm Tours, including: Rob Paulus Architects, Rick Joy Architects, DUST Design Build, and Richard + Bauer
• Freedom by Design: a AIAS community service program that utilizes the talents of architecture students to impact the lives of people in the community through modest design and construction solutions. • USGBC: in collaboration with the University’s Office of Sustainability, the UA chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council meets biweekly and its current projects include: The Lutron Lighting Upgrade Program
Engagement with Habitat for Humanity
Where are our grads working now?
Adrian Smith Gordon Gill Perkins and Will (Chicago), Lake|Flato (Austin), Gluck+ (New York), Architecture International (San Francisco), SRG (Portland), Tate Snyder Kimsey (Reno), MulvannyG2 architecture (Bellevue, WA), KG + D Architecture (D.C.), Boulder Associates (Sacramento), Construction Zone (Phoenix), Seaver Franks, Repp Mclain Design and Construction, SEI Design Group, Line and Space, and Rob Paulus Architects (Tucson). Several are continuing at the UA to earn a second degree: Master of Landscape Architecture or Master of Science in Planning. Others have begun their own design-build practices and have broken ground on several projects.
Amy Moraga Program Coordinator Graduate Programs [email protected] 520.621.9819 Beth Weinstein M.Arch Program Chair Associate Professor [email protected] 520.626.6324 ca pla .a r izona .edu
university of arizona school of architecture
master of architecture
