The Master of Architecture Program provides a variety of credit-earning opportunities for architectural studies abroad as well as traveling fellowships to graduate students. Sites of summer study abroad programs vary from year to year.

Semester Abroad Programs

Architectural Association (AA), London
During the fifth term of the Master of Architecture Program, up to fifteen students a year may enroll for the semester abroad program in London, England. This is coordinated by Professor Homa Farjadi and is housed at the Architectural Association (AA), located on Bedford Square in the heart of Bloomsbury. Students enroll in a special design studio, ARCH 702, taught by Prof. Farjadi, and in two elective courses offered by the faculty at the AA.

Summer Studies Abroad Programs

In the summer abroad programs, students study and travel for approximately 4 weeks at the beginning of the summer and receive 1 elective course unit of credit.

Summer Program in Paris This program is a long-established academic program that combines lectures about Parisian architecture and urbanism from important authors, architects and engineers, with accompanied tours to buildings, parks and professional offices. Recent programs have addressed questions central to the city of Paris, including issues of urbanism and technological trajectories through which a particular history of Parisian architecture can be traced.

Summer Program in Mexico City This program provides an introduction to the issues and conditions faced by a large city such as Mexico City and relates them to contemporary architectural and urban practices and theories. This course includes lectures, site visits, case studies and short but intense analytical/design exercises. In addition, the comprehensive program presents some of the dominant architectural, urban, historical and geographical narratives that shape the built environment in the city today.

Traveling Fellowships

Albert F. Schenk Memorial Scholarship Awarded for travel abroad on the basis of a design competition.

Van Alen Traveling Fellowship Awarded to one landscape architecture and one architecture student, in the second year of their programs, for summer travel to France, Italy and/or Spain.

E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship Competition Awarded each year to approximately one-third of the second year class for travel abroad in the summer before their final year of study. Students are selected for the Fellowship through a portfolio competition.