The Master of Architecture is an accredited professional degree program that prepares graduates to live and thrive in the world of architecture. The program promotes a creative, open and supportive environment emphasizing advanced and personalized instruction through small class and studio courses. We investigate the world of architecture in its manifold forms, and immerse ourselves in contemporary challenges to address a variety of social, cultural, technological, and programmatic contexts.
Our program prides itself on offering diverse curricular and extra-curricular opportunities, while working directly with students to help them pursue their interests.
Beyond our curricular activities, we are home to innovate research units, including RAD-UM, a lab dedicated to emergent embedded technology, the Laboratory of Littoral Urbanism, and acclaimed design/build program, and the Center for Urban and Community Design. The School's resources, including state-of-the-art digital laboratories, a dedicated architecture library, lecture hall and exhibition center, are enhanced by the interdisciplinary opportunities offered by the other schools and colleges at the University of Miami.
Miami's position between North and South, specifically its close proximity to the Caribbean and Latin America, stimulate the School's hemispheric focus and identity. Our tropical location allows students to understand the living and environmental issues that impact billions of people around the wrold from the Caribbean Sea to India and China. Building on our location, the School participates in international networks that enable students to develop an understanding of architecture and culture in an increasingly globalized world.
Miami is one of the world's most fascinating contemporary laboratories of architecture and urbanism. Our location facilitates the study of urbanization and regional environmental transformation, infrastructure development, sea level rise, and the transformative power of technology and public participation. The School makes full use of its context and collaborates with local governments, authorities and non-for-profits to design and build a better world.
The University of Miami is in a growing metropolitan region with a high employment rate, and many opportunities to work. Miami and its region are the home base of significant architects and urbanists, and the city comprises a cgrowing body of important buildings by Pritzker Prize recipients. The vital cultural life of the city and the international business ambience of our region make Miami an attractive place to live and study. In the midst of all this, the intimate and park-like tropical atmosphere of UM campus and School of Architecture offer a productive sanctuary.
The Master of Architecture curriculum reflects the multiplicity of the discipline: theory and practice, innovation and tradition, building design and urban design. The School is committed to sustainable urbanism and city, and to the value of tradition and modernity as reciprocal in the design of buildings and the design of the city and its neighborhoods. Our diverse faculty, many leaders in the profession, represent the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.