11 Architecture and Urban Design Summer Course Programs

Finance is a highly competitive and dynamic industry that demands quantitative-oriented professionals. This course equips students with empirical techniques that are used in the analysis of financial markets, with a strong focus on financial applications using actual data.

Rome Architectural Sketchbook is a multidisciplinary course that explores the various components of architecture in Rome, allowing you to focus on sites, design and visual sketching.

In a 4-week program, the Tropical Architecture Summer School at Institut Desain & Bisnis Bali (formerly known as Sekolah Tinggi Desain Bali STDB) provides international students and graduates with insights into the tropical architecture of Southeast Asia. In a comprehensive course, participants will work together on complex tasks about architecture and urban design, planning and construction, design, landscape architecture, interior design, and resort design.

Discover your creative passion, build friendships, and find your place at Pratt in this immersive college-level program. Spend the summer on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus in intensive art, design, architecture, or creative writing courses, informed and inspired by the backdrop of New York City. During this four-week full-time program, students develop conceptual and technical skills; and create portfolio pieces for college admission, while earning elective college credits.

Since 2014, the International Summer School “The City and the Water” has been a full-time design workshop that explores the complex relationships between the built environment and water, in its broadest sense as an environmental resource, including the sea, rivers, lakes and water resources.

Fall, Winter and Spring PreCollege courses are designed for high school students to explore creative disciplines and prepare for admission to a degree in art, design, or architecture. During these college level programs, students create portfolio pieces for college admission and develop art/design skills while earning elective college credit. See course description for the modality of each course: in-person or online synchronous.

Open to the creative individual, inspired professionals, current college students, and college graduates, as well as those newly admitted to SCI-Arc’s M.Arch 1 program, Making+Meaning is a four-week summer studio program that introduces students to architectural experimentation and transformative design techniques in a unique and lively studio setting.

Introduction to problem-solving methods and algorithm development. Includes procedural and data abstractions, program design, debugging, testing, and documentation. Covers data types, control structures, functions, parameter passing, library functions, and arrays. Laboratory exercises in Python. Laboratory course.

An ideal introduction to British architecture and design, this course is based on the creative processes of ‘thinking and making’ to enhance your understanding of architectural design.

The Summer School course “EU Regional Policy - Reality Check and Perspective" offers a unique opportunity to learn and discuss structures, actors, processes, and challenges of regional and urban development and management in dialogue with international academic experts and practitioners.

The course explores the most recent and exciting work in the field of regional development. Both theoretical and empirical aspects will be covered, with a precise focus on regional policy that improves economic well-being in different regions.