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The School of Architecture The School of Eligibility for one degree program or Path C / 3-Year Master of Architecture another is based solely on an applicant's (3 years) Architecture educational background. The 3-year Master of Architecture (M.Arch) professional degree is intended for students Dean: Path A / Master of Architectural Design entering the University of Notre Dame with Michael Lykoudis and Urbanism (2 years) a four-year undergraduate degree in a field Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies: The 2-year Master of Architectural Design other than architecture. An intensive three- Samantha Salden Teach and Urbanism (M.ADU) post-professional semester foundational sequence of studio, degree is intended for students who already history, theory and technology courses Telephone: (574) 631-6137 hold an accredited professional degree and prepares students for the final three- Fax: (574) 631-8486 are seeking to further develop their design semester concentration/terminal design Location: 110 Bond Hall skills and critical thinking in the disciplines project and public defense sequence Email: [email protected] of classical architecture and traditional urban described above. 90 credit hours over six Web: architecture.nd.edu design. The studio course work consists of semesters are required for graduation, a) a foundational first semester spent in including a normal (over)load of 18-credit The Program of Studies South Bend introducing students to classical hours each of the first three semesters. The Notre Dame School of Architecture architectural design, urban principles and Advanced standing may be given to students graduate programs in architecture, urban history, and the history of Rome; b) two who have completed some portion of their design, and historic preservation semesters of studio work (one in Rome) in non-studio course work prior to promote built environments that are the student’s selected concentration; and c) matriculation, but the six-semester studio durable, useful, and beautiful, and which are an independent terminal design project and sequence is required of all Path C supportive of strong communities. The public defense in the student’s fourth candidates. School seeks to train designers, semester. 39 credit-hours over four preservationists, scholars, and advocates for semesters are required for graduation, and Concentrations the built environment who can play a M.ADU students are limited to 12 credit- The studio course sequence of the final leading role in a variety of disciplines and hours per semester. three semesters of each path “track” with arenas. Towards these ends, the graduate one another, i.e., Path A, B and C students curriculum promotes the understanding of Path B / Master of Architecture (2 years) take studios with each other in their final detail, building, and city as a continuous and Notre Dame’s 2-year Master of Architecture three semesters. Each path requires the interdependent scalar spectrum. It engages (M.Arch) professional degree is intended for student to do an independent terminal both intellectual endeavor and the practical students entering the University of Notre design project in his or her final semester, teaching of craft in order that the best Dame with a four-year pre-professional and to select a concentration in either lessons of historic precedent might be degree in architecture who are seeking a classical architecture or urban design in the learned, expanded upon, and combined with professional graduate degree that focuses two semesters prior. All students spend one a judicious use of contemporary strategies, upon classical architecture and traditional of those two concentration semesters in materials, and methodologies in order to urbanism. Studio course work is identical to Rome, depending upon which concentration contribute toward buildings and urbanism that of the 2-year Path A M.ADU program, they select. which are environmentally and culturally with a foundational first semester spent in sustainable. Graduates of the School of South Bend, followed by two semesters of Students choosing to concentrate in classical Architecture graduate programs recognize studio work (one in Rome) in the student’s architecture spend extensive time in both that they are stewards of their communities, selected concentration, followed by a South Bend and Rome on studio projects both local and global, and that as part of a terminal design project and public defense and ancillary course work that develop their living tradition, it is a critical part of their in the student’s fourth semester. Required knowledge of and ability to participate in the work to further the education of clients, studio and seminar courses are 2,500-year old tradition of western classical communities, and future generations of supplemented by other courses needed to architecture descending from Greece and designers and citizens. meet the National Architectural Rome. Accreditation Board’s (NAAB) substantive Architecture & Urban Design curricular requirements for accredited Students choosing to concentrate in urban professional architecture degree programs. design likewise spend time in South Bend The School of Architecture offers two These requirements will vary from student and Rome — and travel extensively to other graduate architecture degrees: Master of to student depending upon their towns and cities as well — learning in their Architectural Design and Urbanism undergraduate architectural education. A design studios the formal principles of good (M.ADU), a 2-year post-professional degree minimum of 54 credit-hours over four urban design, and being introduced to the (Path A) and Master of Architecture semesters are required for graduation, and political, legal and cultural frameworks of (M.Arch)* the normal course load for Path B / 2-year contemporary traditional urban design 2-year (Path B) professional degree M.Arch students is 15 credit hours per through studio-based community design 3-year (Path C) professional degree semester. workshops. *Both the 2- and 3-year M.Arch degrees are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). An independent semester-long terminal Application Requirements Language (TOEFL) and the International design project is required of all students in English Language Testing System (IELTS) Please note that while the online application their final semester. This project provides an are offered several times each year at sites in site is hosted by the University of Notre opportunity for students to design in a the United States and abroad. International Dame Graduate School, all application variety of scales and contexts of their own students, except those whose native materials are processed and evaluated by the choosing, in which contemporary language or language of college instruction is Graduate Admissions Committee within the architectural issues are explored in projects English, must submit TOEFL or IELTS School of Architecture. that require the student to synthesize their scores as part of their application to academic experience. M.Arch student demonstrate a sufficient command of 1. An applicant for admission to a degree projects may include an urban design English to meet the requirements of their program must complete all of the component, but must include the in-depth field. If not available locally, the annual following: 1. Complete and design of a building. schedules and other information about the electronically submit the online TOEFL can be obtained online at application http://www.toefl.org or from Educational Path D / The Discretionary Dual 2. Submit a statement of intent through Testing Service (ETS), TOEFL, Box 6151, Degree (3 or 4 years) the online application system Princeton, NJ 08541-6151, USA. If you At the discretion of the School of 3. Submit a curriculum vitae or resumé need to call about the TOEFL, telephone Architecture Graduate Studies Committee, through the online application system the Educational Testing Service at (609) one or two M.Arch students per year may be 4. Arrange for three (3) letters of 771-7100. Information on the IELTS can be invited to pursue the Discretionary Dual recommendation to be submitted obtained online at http://ielts.org Degree (DDD) course of study. Students through the online recommendation who pursue the DDD option spend an system associated with the online Students seeking admission to more than additional year of studies at Notre Dame, application one program must submit separate during which time they spend two semesters 5. Submit unofficial transcripts from each applications for each program. The rather than one in Rome, complete post-secondary institution through the application fee must accompany the concentrations in both Classical online application application. This fee is nonrefundable, and Architecture and Urban Design, and 6. Submit a portfolio of work in hard may be paid by check, money order, or graduate at the end of their additional year copy form to the School of credit card (see online application for the with both the professional M.Arch degree Architecture. It is requested that current application fee). The application and the post-professional M.ADU degree. portfolios have a maximum size of 11 deadline is January 15th for admission to the All M.Arch students are eligible to apply for X 14 inches. following fall semester. The School of the DDD course of study, but all DDD 7. Submit the application fee by credit Architecture does not allow for Spring invitations are extended at the discretion of