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In 2011, drawing on their long history together, GSAPP and MARKHI launched Global Metropolis: New York-Moscow, a specialized design leadership program that combines the highest level of expertise in the international field with the specific conditions of practice in Russia and the United States. The focus of the program is globalization and its consequences for the cities of today, exemplified by New York, the most complete symbol of a global metropolis, a vibrant image of dense cosmopolitan life, and Moscow, a remarkable historical city and dynamic metropolis facing a changing relationship to the increasingly interconnected global world, and thereby becoming a particularly important laboratory for new urban policy and design strategies.
Global Metropolis: New York-Moscow is a special post-graduate program in architectural design that runs within the existing MSAAD degree program at the GSAPP. It is addressed to the top graduates of Russia and the USA who seek to play a leadership role in the coming decades by combing state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in the international field with the specific conditions and innovations of practice in Russia and the USA.
This unique one year post-graduate design program is a key part of a wider effort that has been endorsed by the Bilateral Presidential Commission fostering a deeper collaboration in science and culture between Russia and the United States. The goal of the program is to nurture a new generation of global professionals with a deeper understanding of the present realities and the most advanced techniques for engaging with the future forms of cities. By 2050, more than seventy percent of the planet’s 9.3 billion people will be living in cities. This is the biggest experiment in human history. Cities have therefore become the real laboratories of our shared future that require a whole new generation of thinking, teaching, research, communication and professional skills. This unique joint program provides the state-of-the-art in training for the newly emergent global professional.
The Global Metropolis: New York-Moscow program accepts a class of 12 highly selected graduates for a full year program. It begins with the summer semester at GSAPP in New York, moves to MARKHI for the fall semester and returns to GSAPP for the spring semester, culminating in the awarding of a Columbia University Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design degree. The special curriculum of the program involves a highly tailored sequence of studios, lectures, seminars and workshops conducted in English.
The studios explore the unique opportunities in the making and rebuilding of the architecture and urban fabric in New York and Moscow in the context of the evolution of global cities worldwide, while the lecture and seminar courses provide an overview on the globalization process and its consequent major transformations, as well as a detailed understanding of the history, morphology and shaping of the architecture and urban fabric of both cities. Specialized classes in "global tools" are also given in contemporary technologies of design and construction, real-estate development, digital modeling, interfaces, and data visualization that will be crucial in the analysis, designing, thinking and creativity of future architects and urban designers.
These parallel streams of classes in design, history/theory and global tools are integrated into a compact yet comprehensive program with an additional wide range of elective classes from throughout the school and university, along with supplementary guest lectures, workshops, seminar discussions, city walks exploring the urban fabric, visits to professional offices and governmental agencies, and a spring research trip to one of GSAPP's "Studio-X" laboratories in Beijing, Mumbai, Amman, or Rio.
The strongest graduates of the program will also be eligible to apply to carry out an additional year of study in the Advanced Architectural Research program at GSAPP and all graduates have the possibility of spending a one year period after the completion of the program for further training and working experience in the United States.
Global Metropolis: New York-Moscow is a special post-graduate program in architectural design that runs within the existing MSAAD degree program at the GSAPP. It is addressed to the top graduates of Russia and the USA who seek to play a leadership role in the coming decades by combing state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in the international field with the specific conditions and innovations of practice in Russia and the USA.
This unique one year post-graduate design program is a key part of a wider effort that has been endorsed by the Bilateral Presidential Commission fostering a deeper collaboration in science and culture between Russia and the United States. The goal of the program is to nurture a new generation of global professionals with a deeper understanding of the present realities and the most advanced techniques for engaging with the future forms of cities. By 2050, more than seventy percent of the planet’s 9.3 billion people will be living in cities. This is the biggest experiment in human history. Cities have therefore become the real laboratories of our shared future that require a whole new generation of thinking, teaching, research, communication and professional skills. This unique joint program provides the state-of-the-art in training for the newly emergent global professional.
The Global Metropolis: New York-Moscow program accepts a class of 12 highly selected graduates for a full year program. It begins with the summer semester at GSAPP in New York, moves to MARKHI for the fall semester and returns to GSAPP for the spring semester, culminating in the awarding of a Columbia University Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design degree. The special curriculum of the program involves a highly tailored sequence of studios, lectures, seminars and workshops conducted in English.
The studios explore the unique opportunities in the making and rebuilding of the architecture and urban fabric in New York and Moscow in the context of the evolution of global cities worldwide, while the lecture and seminar courses provide an overview on the globalization process and its consequent major transformations, as well as a detailed understanding of the history, morphology and shaping of the architecture and urban fabric of both cities. Specialized classes in "global tools" are also given in contemporary technologies of design and construction, real-estate development, digital modeling, interfaces, and data visualization that will be crucial in the analysis, designing, thinking and creativity of future architects and urban designers.
These parallel streams of classes in design, history/theory and global tools are integrated into a compact yet comprehensive program with an additional wide range of elective classes from throughout the school and university, along with supplementary guest lectures, workshops, seminar discussions, city walks exploring the urban fabric, visits to professional offices and governmental agencies, and a spring research trip to one of GSAPP's "Studio-X" laboratories in Beijing, Mumbai, Amman, or Rio.
The strongest graduates of the program will also be eligible to apply to carry out an additional year of study in the Advanced Architectural Research program at GSAPP and all graduates have the possibility of spending a one year period after the completion of the program for further training and working experience in the United States.
