Savannah College of Art and Design
B.F.A. in Architecture
Savannah, USA
BA
DURATION
180 hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Key Summary
About: B.F.A. Architecture students at SCAD study design, sustainability, social context, and technical methods for buildings, urban sites. You'll apply historical, cultural, topographical, theoretical, and aesthetic factors to projects like skyscrapers, museums, and mixed-use developments on real-world sites. You'll use tools such as augmented and virtual reality and industry resources to build technical skills and a portfolio showing site planning, construction methods, and design visualization.
Career Outcomes: Launch roles include architect; sustainability specialist; architectural illustrator/renderer; real estate developer; site planner; building construction manager; project manager; zoning official; hospitality designer. Graduates join firms like Herzog & de Meuron, BIG, HOK, Gensler.
Architects give personality to buildings, shaping the purpose and character of whole communities with their stunning designs. As a SCAD architecture student, you'll learn the environmental, social, and sustainability issues that affect how structures are mapped out. You'll apply historical, cultural, topographical, theoretical, and aesthetic factors to concept skyscrapers, museums, mixed-use developments, and more on real-world sites. Using top-of-the-line and emerging resources like augmented and virtual reality, you'll develop the technical expertise — and the portfolio — necessary to raise buildings that add beauty and color to the world.
Foundation studies: 30 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- SBLD 115 Graphics for the Building Arts
- SBLD 223 Form, Space, Order
- SBLD 224 Site as Design Generator
- SBLD 225 Spatial Relationships and Human Response
General education: 55 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- MATH 201 Applied Mathematics
- PHYS 201 Applied Physics
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- General education elective*
- Social/behavioral sciences elective
Major curriculum: 80 hours
- ARCH 101 Introduction to Architecture
- ARLH 206 Modern Architecture Before 1900
- ARLH 208 Modern Architecture After 1900
- ELDS 225 Electronic Design I: Digital Communication for the Building Arts
- ARCH 241 Construction Technology I: Building Materials and Assemblies
- ARCH 301 Architecture Design Studio I: Human-centered Design
- ARCH 302 Architecture Design Studio II: Site and Environmental Context
- ARCH 303 Architecture Design Studio III: Structural Applications
- ARCH 319 Structures: General Structure
- ARCH 341 Construction Technology II: Building Systems and Technologies
- ARCH 361 Environmental Control I: Energy, Climate, and Human Comfort
- ARCH 404 Architecture Design Studio IV: Urban Context
- ARCH 405 Architecture Design Studio V: Research and Schematic Design
- ARCH 406 Architecture Design Studio VI: Comprehensive Design Development
- ARCH 461 Environmental Control II: Mechanical, Lighting, Acoustics, and Life Safety Systems
- 300- to 400-level ARLH non-Western elective
Additional electives: 15 hours
- Select three of these four options:
- ARCH 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Free elective
- Free elective
Total course of study: 180 hours
Become an architect. Become a real estate developer. Become a project manager. Become a building construction manager. SCAD molds professionals who consider a range of issues — from the social to the sustainable — as they create and renew the buildings and spaces in which people work, gather, play, and live.
Launch your career as a professional:
- Architect
- Sustainability specialist
- Architectural illustrator/renderer
- Real estate developer
- Site planner
- Building construction manager
- Project manager
- Zoning official
- Hospitality designer
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Herzog & de Meuron
- BIG — Bjarke Ingels Group
- HOK
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- Gensler
- Perkins+Will
- SmithGroup
- Sasaki
- Louis Vuitton