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M.S. Advanced Architectural Design
Overview
The Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design is a three-semester, post-professional program that provides outstanding young professionals—who already hold a Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture—the opportunity to conceptualize design as a critical practice that shapes the world’s technological, relational, and environmental evolutions. The program is viewed as a framework for exploring both academic and professional concerns through a set of inquiries and premises: architecture and its design practices are critical in addressing contemporary challenges; architectural specificity is the result of transdisciplinary cooperation; architecture’s future agency lies in the discipline’s capacity to mobilize realities across different scales and time frames. These ideas are explored through innovations in representational tools and the embrace of new probationary artifacts, inviting students to shift away from the specialized mastery of specific scales towards methods of “transscalarity.” By aligning new models of response to new architectural modes of practice, the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program strives to empower graduating students in the face of unknown future scenarios.
The Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program starts in the summer semester. Considered the core of the program, the summer semester consists of the Advanced Design Studio—offering up to eleven design studios each year—and two required courses that establish the critical and historical coordinates for the program: Transscalarities, that explores how the capacity for architecture to impact societies and ecosystems result in the way design operates ecologically across scales of space and time; and Arguments, which explores contemporary theory in a unique combination of coordinated seminar sessions taught by current Architecture PHDs and guest lectures. All invited speakers are collectively engaging with transdisciplinary ways of addressing climate via situated, material, and social-economic and political means in the making of societies.
In the fall and spring semesters, Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design students are joined with the third-year Master of Architecture students for the Advanced Studios. Like the Master of Architecture curriculum, Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design students must take a minimum of four elective courses in the History and Theory, Visual Studies, and Technology distributions.
The M.S.AAD is a designated STEM program eligible under the CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs) Code 04.0902: Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology. Learn more about STEM designation.
Advanced Design Studio
The Advanced Studios bring together students in the Master of Architecture and Master of Sciences in Advanced Architectural Design programs. These studios, which take place during the fall and spring semesters at the School, have always explored the future of architecture in a diversity of ways. Each studio creates its own world—with its own intersection of social, cultural, formal, material, economic, and environmental concerns—and students have almost 20 worlds to choose from. After selecting a studio, students conduct experiments and develop projects through concepts and massings, programs and forms, drawings and models, materials and atmospheres, metrics and narratives.
Fall 2025 Courses
| Course | Semester | Title | Student Work | Instructor | Syllabus | Requirements & Sequence | Location & Time | Session & Points | Call No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARCH4005‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Mario Gooden, Lydia Kallipoliti |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
9 Points
|
10629 | ||
| ARCH4105‑14 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Gary Bates |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10463 | ||
| ARCH4105‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Phu Hoang |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10630 | ||
| ARCH4105‑2 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Amale Andraos |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10631 | ||
| ARCH4105‑3 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Michael Bell |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10632 | ||
| ARCH4105‑4 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Ziad Jamaleddine |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10633 | ||
| ARCH4105‑5 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Joseph Henry |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10634 | ||
| ARCH4105‑6 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Sumayya Vally, Adnan Kasubhai |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10635 | ||
| ARCH4105‑8 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Mario Gooden |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10637 | ||
| ARCH4105‑9 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
David Benjamin |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10638 | ||
| ARCH4105‑10 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Ricardo Flores, Eva Prats, Pimchid Chariyacharoen |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10639 | ||
| ARCH4105‑11 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Gordon Kipping |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10640 | ||
| ARCH4105‑12 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Michael Wang |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10641 | ||
| ARCH4105‑13 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Sebastián Adamo , Javier Alberto Flores |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10642 | ||
| ARCH4105‑15 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Marc Tsurumaki |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10644 | ||
| ARCH4105‑16 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V + Clinic
|
Imani Jacqueline Brown, André Santos |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
700 Avery
M, TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10645 | ||
| ARCH4105‑17 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V + Clinic
|
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mark Rakatansky |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10646 | ||
| ARCH4105‑18 | Fall 2025 |
Advanced Studio V
|
Leslie Gill, Khoi Nguyen |
AAD + M.Arch Only |
600 + 700 Avery, 113 Avery
M, TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
Full Semester
0 Points
|
10647 | ||
| ARCH4050‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Arch Elective Internship
|
Karen Cover |
With approval only via application |
NA
NA
|
Full Semester
1.5 Points
|
10664 | ||
| ARCH6784‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Conservation of Brick, Terra Cotta & Stone
|
Norman Weiss, John Walsh |
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
M 10 AM - 1 PM
|
Session B
1.5 Points
|
10746 | |||
| ARCH6900‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Research I
|
Danielle Smoller |
Individual Study |
NA
NA
|
Full Semester
2 or 3 Points
|
10667 | ||
| ARCH4341‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Traditional American Architecture
|
Andrew Dolkart |
209 Fayerweather
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10737 | |||
| ARCH4385‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Arab Modernism(s): Experiments in Housing, 1945-present
|
Yasser Elsheshtawy |
200 Buell North
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
19935 | |||
| ARCH4388‑1 | Fall 2025 |
(Re) Inventing Living: Modern Experiments in Latin American Housing
|
Luis E. Carranza |
114 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10651 | |||
| ARCH4427‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Architecture Apropos Art
|
Steven Holl, Dimitra Tsachrelia |
412 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10665 | |||
| ARCH4441‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Interlaced Existence: Death, Life, Liminality
|
Karla Rothstein |
200 Buell North
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10666 | |||
| ARCH4442‑1 | Fall 2025 |
If Buildings Had DNA
|
Christoph Kumpusch |
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
16429 | |||
| ARCH4469‑1 | Fall 2025 |
The History of Architecture Theory
|
Mark Wigley |
114 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10652 | |||
| ARCH4597‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Extreme Design
|
Mark Wigley |
412 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10653 | |||
| ARCH4625‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Tensile/Compression Surfaces in Architecture: Tactile Methods for Architects
|
Robert Marino |
409 Avery
TU 2 PM - 4 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10685 | |||
| ARCH4715‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Re-Thinking BIM
|
Joseph Brennan |
409 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10673 | |||
| ARCH4845‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Generative Design I
|
Danil Nagy |
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10681 | |||
| ARCH4866‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Modernism + The Vernacular
|
Mary McLeod |
409 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10654 | |||
| ARCH4874‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Construction Ecologies in the Anthropocene
|
Tommy Schaperkotter |
409 Avery
M 9 AM - 11 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10699 | |||
| ARCH4892‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Data Visualization for Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities
|
Jia Zhang |
409 Avery
F 9 AM - 11 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10675 | |||
| ARCH4894‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Spatial UX
|
Violet Whitney |
115 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10676 | |||
| ARCH4987‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Architectural Photography: From the Models to the Built World
|
Michael Vahrenwald |
115 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10670 | |||
| ARCH4988‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Coding for Spatial Practices
|
Celeste Layne |
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 7 PM - 9 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10677 | |||
| ARCH6510‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Neighborhood Preservation and Zoning
|
Carol Clark |
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Session B
1.5 Points
|
10742 | |||
| ARCH6682‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Subject+Object
|
Suchi Reddy |
300 Buell South
F 9 AM - 11 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10708 | |||
| ARCH6756‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Make
|
Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano |
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
F 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10671 | |||
| ARCH6768‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Conservation of Architectural Metals
|
Richard Pieper |
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
M 10 AM - 1 PM
|
Session A
1.5 Points
|
10745 | |||
| ARCH6801‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Structural Daring & The Sublime In Pre-Modern Architecture
|
Rory O'Neill |
412 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10657 | |||
| ARCH6830‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Difference and Design
|
Justin Moore |
All GSAPP |
412 Avery/ Online
TU 4 PM - 6 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10439 | ||
| ARCH6917‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Seed Bombs: Technologies in Ecological Design
|
Emily Bauer |
115 Avery
TU 11 AM - 3 PM
|
Session A
3 Points
|
10710 | |||
| ARCH6921‑1 | Fall 2025 |
AI for Existing Buildings
|
Kivanc Kose |
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
W 6 PM - 8 PM
|
Session B
1.5 Points
|
13583 | |||
| ARCH6930‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Women, Gender + Modern Architecture
|
Mary McLeod |
408 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10663 | |||
| ARCH6934‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Traditional Building Technology
|
Tim Michiels |
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TH 9 AM - 11:30 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10748 | |||
| ARCH6938‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Rendering Systems
|
Seth Thompson |
300 Buell North
TU 7 PM - 9 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10678 | |||
| ARCH6939‑1 | Fall 2025 |
GIS for Design Practices
|
Dare Brawley, Mario Giampieri | Syllabus |
408 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10680 | ||
| ARCH6941‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Architectural Acoustical Ecology
|
Ethan Bourdeau |
408 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10705 | |||
| ARCH6942‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Daylight, Metabolism
|
Elliot Glassman |
200 Buell North
TH 7 PM - 9 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10706 | |||
| ARCH6953‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Invis-abilities: Enhancing Accessibility in Design for Mind and Body
|
Zarina Farmer-George |
203 Fayerweather
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
13590 | |||
| ARCH6962‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Environment, Built: Episodes from an Elemental History of Architecture
|
Enrique Ramírez |
408 Avery
W 9 AM - 11 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
14757 | |||
| ARCH6964‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Information Richness: Architecture, Media, Politics
|
Amelyn Ng |
408 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
13851 | |||
| ARCH6967‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Cities of Knowledge: Orientalizing Manhattan
|
Ziad Jamaleddine |
934 Schermerhorn
TU 2:10 PM - 4 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10662 | |||
| ARCH6988‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Fortifications and Other Infrastructures of the British Empire
|
Hannah Kaemmer |
409 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
18407 | |||
| ARCH6814‑1 | Fall 2025 |
New Towns After Smart Cities
|
David Smiley |
All GSAPP |
412 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10475 | ||
| ARCH6840‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Archives of Toxicity
|
Mark Wasiuta |
300 Buell South
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10658 | |||
| ARCH6861‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Environments of Governance
|
Felicity Scott |
300 Buell South
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10659 | |||
| ARCH6927‑1 | Fall 2025 |
Architecture, Technology & the Environment
|
Albena Yaneva |
All GSAPP |
412 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
13599 | ||
| ARCH6929‑1 | Fall 2025 |
The Reimagining of Lower Manhattan Post-Sandy
|
Michael Kimmelman |
All GSAPP |
408 Avery
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10600 | ||
| PLAN6272‑1 | Fall 2025 |
New York Rising: How Real Estate Shapes a City
|
Kate Ascher |
ALL GSAPP |
114 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10438 | ||
| PLCE4444‑1 | Fall 2025 |
The Future City: Transforming Urban Infrastructure
|
Kate Ascher, Andrew Smyth |
All University |
113 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
10890 |
Transscalarities:
Arenas of Design
Transscalarities queries the ways in which architectural devices of reference, which have shaped the discourse of the field over the last few decades, and are characterized by their transitioning through spatial, material, and temporal scales. This foundational course explores the agencies architectural devices unfold through transscalar conditions—that is to say, the specific forms of politics that architectural devices perform by participating in diverse dimensional and physical settings; and the way they multiply their reach, influence, and sensitivity by entangling, for instance, the microbiological to the mineral, the atmospherical, the ecosystemic, the genetic, and the planetary. Transscalarities identifies the field of architectural design as a rich ecosystem of alternative, diverse, and confronting methodologies, traditions, and positions.
Operating from both relational and material paradigms, this course characterizes architectural devices as both relational and environmental entities in the way they build up interdependencies with each other and with other entities; and in the way they participate in composites where economies, institutions, societies, biology, ecologies, technologies, normativities, media, environments, aesthetics, and cultures are enacted as intersectional. The architectural devices of reference that will be analyzed throughout the course, both in their embedded characteristics and in their trajectories throughout time, mobilize notions and positions that confront those mobilized by other devices.
Arguments
The Arguments series brings together a diverse group of speakers whose work addresses today’s most pressing challenges—environmental, political, and social and beyond, by interrogating the way architectural devices and architectural practices gain collective relevance and by participating in environmental, technological and representational alliances, solidarities, defiances, disputes and controversies. Organized around a series of invitations to relevant scholars, professionals, artists, journalists or activists—half from the field of architecture, half from non-architectural fields—this course has as its main goal an interrogation of the way architecture is part of the realities that shape the evolution of the world’s societies and ecosystems.
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