MArch Master of Architecture
Providence, USA
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Master of Architecture (MArch) is a studio-based three-year programme in a college of art and design. It views architecture as design and making within social, political, material, technological, and cultural agendas. The curriculum covers representation and fabrication; technologies and professional ethics; history and theory; and design and projecting architecture, using both discursive and material production.
Career Outcomes: Graduates work in architectural practice, design firms, urban design, building conservation, digital and computational design, fabrication and model making, research, teaching, and cultural institutions. Career opportunities include architect, urban designer, fabrication specialist, researcher, and educator.
RISD's Master of Architecture program is one of the few in the US embedded in a college of art and design. Here, architecture is taught in a way that understands the practice of design and making as a thoughtful, reflective process that both engenders and draws from social, political, material, technological and cultural agendas. The program aims to empower students to exercise their creativity by understanding their role as cultural creators and equipping them to succeed in the client-based practice of architecture.
The three-year curriculum builds on fundamental areas underpinning the creative practice of architecture: representation and fabrication; technologies and professional ethics; history and theory; and design and the process of projecting architecture. Throughout the program, ideas are expressed not only discursively but through actual production.
