Joint Architecture Degree
Schools of the environment and architecture increasingly recognize they must strive to encourage and facilitate sustainable development. Students and practitioners of the environment and architecture need to be provided with the knowledge and skills of these historically separate and independent disciplines so they can assume positions of leadership for shaping the built environment in ways that sustain people and the planet for the indefinite future.
Sustainable, green, or what we prefer to call restorative environmental design reflects this attempt to equip students both to minimize and mitigate adverse impacts on the natural environment, as well as enhance beneficial contact between people and natural systems in the built environment. Students pursuing a career in sustainable or restorative environmental design will be provided with new and emerging skills and technologies intended to alter the environmentally and socially damaging practices that now commonly shape built environments.
This need is addressed at Yale University through the offering of a joint master’s degree program in environmental management and architecture. Few universities are in a better position to accomplish this than Yale. The long leadership traditions of both the Schools of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Architecture, along with the unmatched potential offered by their combined intellectual expertise and physical facilities, uniquely position these schools to establish a singularly innovative academic program in sustainable and restorative environmental design to prepare a new generation of leaders focusing on urban and regional design and development.
Students who complete this program will obtain both a Masters of Environmental Management and a Masters of Architecture I or II. Students admitted to the Masters of Architecture I program will complete 2.5 years of course work within the School of Architecture, while students admitted to the Masters of Architecture II program will complete 1.5 years. In both cases, students will also complete 1.5 years of course work at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Information on applying to the program, recommended curriculum, and faculty associated with the program can be obtained from the director of admissions of either school.
Sustainable, green, or what we prefer to call restorative environmental design reflects this attempt to equip students both to minimize and mitigate adverse impacts on the natural environment, as well as enhance beneficial contact between people and natural systems in the built environment. Students pursuing a career in sustainable or restorative environmental design will be provided with new and emerging skills and technologies intended to alter the environmentally and socially damaging practices that now commonly shape built environments.
This need is addressed at Yale University through the offering of a joint master’s degree program in environmental management and architecture. Few universities are in a better position to accomplish this than Yale. The long leadership traditions of both the Schools of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Architecture, along with the unmatched potential offered by their combined intellectual expertise and physical facilities, uniquely position these schools to establish a singularly innovative academic program in sustainable and restorative environmental design to prepare a new generation of leaders focusing on urban and regional design and development.
Students who complete this program will obtain both a Masters of Environmental Management and a Masters of Architecture I or II. Students admitted to the Masters of Architecture I program will complete 2.5 years of course work within the School of Architecture, while students admitted to the Masters of Architecture II program will complete 1.5 years. In both cases, students will also complete 1.5 years of course work at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Information on applying to the program, recommended curriculum, and faculty associated with the program can be obtained from the director of admissions of either school.
