6/11/26 Program Requirements and Curriculum

Master of Architecture + Master of Urban Planning

Program Requirements and Curriculum

Program A is intended for those students who already have a four-year, pre-professional degree in architecture. All dual MArch MUP students must complete the requirements for a specialization in the MUP program. This is a model for course sequencing - students should carefully plan their particular sequences with both departmental advisors. Students may register for a maximum of one independent study course in each semester, with a maximum career total of two.

MArch + MUP (program A)

Semester 1: Fall			Semester 2: Spring
ARC 605	Foundation Studio (SUNE)	7	ARC 606	Research Studio (SUNE)	7
ARC xxx	Technical Methods (SUNE)	3	ARC xxx	Intellectual Domain (SUNE)	3
ARC 565	Intellectual Domain (SUNE)	3	ARC 566	Technical Methods (SUNE)	3
PD 501	Planning History/Urban Structure	3	PD 510	Planning Concepts + Controversies	3
Total Semester Credits		16	Total Semester Credits		16

Semester 3: Fall			Semester 4: Spring
ARC 575	Environmental Controls 2	3	ARC 582	Professional Practice	3
ARC xxx	Cognates	3	PD 538	Economic Concepts	3
PD 691	Colloquium I	1	PD 508	Race, Class and Gender	3
PD xxx	Elective	3	PD 473	Land Use and Physical Planning	3
PD xxx	Elective	3	PD xxx	Elective	3
PD 412	Research Methods for Planners	3	Total Semester Credits		15
Total Semester Credits		16
			Semester 6: Spring
Semester 5: Fall			ARC 699		4
ARC 607	Studio for dual MUP/M.Arch.	4	ARC xxx	Cognates	3
ARC 555	Structures 3	3	PD 699	Thesis	3
ARC xxx	Cognates	3	PD xxx	Elective	3
PD 699	Thesis Prep	3	Total Semester Credits		13
PD 580	Studio for dual MUP/M.Arch.	3
Total Semester Credits		16	Total Required Credits		92 (52 ARC; 40 PD)

MArch + MUP (Program B)

Semester 1: Fall			Semester 2: Spring
ARC 501	Design Studio 1	7	ARC 502	Design Studio 2	7
ARC 511	Architectural Communications 1	3	ARC 512	Architectural Communications 2	3
ARC 531	Architectural History 1	3	ARC 534	Architectural History 2	3
ARC 541	Introduction to Building Technology	3	ARC 552	Structures 1	3
Total Semester Credits		16	Total Semester Credits		16

Semester 3: Fall			Semester 4: Spring
ARC 503	Design Studio 3	7	ARC 504	Design Studio 4	7
ARC 553	Structures 2	3	ARC 542	Construction Technology	4
ARC 611	Computer Modeling	4	ARC 573	Environmental Controls 1	3
ARC 575	Environmental Controls 2	3	ARC 582	Professional Practice	3
Total Semester Credits		17	Total Semester Credits		17

Semester 5: Fall			Semester 6: Spring
ARC 605	Foundation Studio (SUNE)	4	ARC 606	Research Studio (SUNE)	7
ARC xxx	Technical Methods (SUNE)	3	ARC xxx	Intellectual Domain (SUNE)	3
ARC 562	Performance Programming	1	PD 566	Technical Methods (SUNE)	3
ARC xxx	Intellectual Domain (SUNE)	3	PD 510	Planning Concepts + Controversies	3
PD 501	Evolution of Urban Structure	3	Total Semester Credits		16
PD 580	Foundation Studio (linked)	3
Total Semester Credits		17	Semester 8: Spring
			PD 573	Land Use and Physical Planning	3
Semester 7: Fall			PD 508	Race, Class and Gender	3
ARC 555	Structures 3	3	PD 538	Economic Concepts	3
ARC xxx	Cognate	3	PD xxx	Elective	3
PD 512	Research Methods for Planners	3	Total Semester Credits		12
PD xxx	Elective	3
PD xxx	Elective	3
PD 691	Colloquium 1	1
Total Semester Credits		16

Semester 9: Fall
ARC 699	Thesis	4
PD 699	Thesis	3
ARC xxx	Cognate	3
PD xxx	Elective	3
Total Semester Credits		13

Total Required Credits		140 (40 Plan; 100 ARC)

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Architecture Graduate Research Groups

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Ecological Practices
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The built and natural environment are a complex web of interconnected parts, constantly exchanging energy and resources. This group critically engages environmental systems and examine the role that architecture and urbanism play in harnessing and stewarding them.
Situated Technologies
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There is no digital architecture anymore—just architecture. Consider architecture in the expanded field of technologies and mediated environments. Complex assemblages of code, people, space, material, infrastructure, practices, and processes—each are technologies unto themselves as is their gathering in architecture.
Urban Design
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Urban design works at the confluence of the scale of buildings and the scale of cities. Straddle the fields of architecture and planning to critically examine parameters of contemporary urban form, including political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural forces.
Material Culture
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Projecting forward from Buffalo’s legacy in material innovation, this group explores constructive sensibilities and investigate how our culture is deeply embedded in material artifacts. Pursue design, production, and potential materials through full-scale fabrication, assembly, and installation.
Inclusive Design
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Develop environments, products and systems for a wider range of people, especially those in underserved populations. One of the most important design movements of our era, inclusive design is based on the values of non-discrimination, social justice, equal opportunity, and personal empowerment.