1st Year


2nd Year


3rd Year


4th & 5th Years


Advanced Synthesis Option Studios (ASOS)

The Advanced Synthesis Option Studios (ASOS) are vertically-integrated advanced studios that encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration from the arts and technology, research and design, large scale urban and ecological thinking, to detailed investigations of materials, fabrication strategies, and form strategies.

The overarching theme for the Fall 2022 semester is Materiality + Aesthetics. Each studio will take a different attitude to the intersection of related issues to their studio agenda. We plan discussions within the studios and a colloquy after final reviews to gather positions/findings/oppositions in response to the semester’s theme. In addition, the theme will be reflected in the Public Programs and other workshops/lectures and symposia will support the discourse.


Graduate Courses


Design Fundamentals Courses

These elective courses focus on methods and competencies for architectural design. They include drawing, fabrication, architectural technologies, and design thinking.


Design Ethics Courses

These elective courses focus on the historical, sociological, and cultural dimensions of architecture. They include architectural history, theory, and critical approaches to architectural pedagogy.


Design Research Courses

These elective courses explore research paradigms and techniques employed in architectural design. They include design research methods, theory, advanced computational and design techniques and architectural typologies.