建筑科学硕士

建筑科学硕士课程为期1年（3个学期），旨在为学生提供与当前问题相关的设计策略/挑战的机会，这些问题包括：弹性设计，热带和亚热带建筑，保健设计，房屋设计，保护建筑环境以及嵌入式技术对设计的影响。建筑设计课程侧重于基于项目的方法，包括高级研究生工作室，核心研讨会，三门选修课以及硕士学位论文或设计中的顶点项目。学生从学校定义的研究领域中选择一个重点主题。建筑研究课程侧重于基于文本的研究，其中包括一个高级研究生工作室，五个选修课和一个书面硕士论文。学生可以事先提出一个主题，或者在学院和研究生院长的批准下，选择一个
The Master of Science in Architecture [MS in Architecture] is a post-professional degree focused on deep research through experimental design inquiry. This program is dedicated to cutting edge research and experimentation, and seeks to explore in a highly innovative fashion the cultural and technological landscapes of Houston. With a highly flexible curriculum, the degree allows for maximum individuation within both the graduate topic studios and an open selection of elective courses. The degree provides for an intensive yearlong (two semester) degree track with highly individuated curation of content allowing for a deep and focused inquiry. Culminating in an individual yearlong Master Degree Project, the post-professional students have an opportunity to examine diverse issues confronting contemporary practice through critical design inquiry.<br><br>As ever expanding global issues confront humanity, architecture must respond with dexterity. Architecture is perpetually challenged to do more with less and function with diminishing operational timelines from the moment of the event to the systemic response. It is time for critical specificity not vagueness. Nothing can be static. Nothing can be done in isolation. Everything must be inclusive. New technologies and expanding tools allow us to confront these issues with ever increasing sophistication and synthesis. The tools of design in all their diverse forms establish new processes and new opportunities. The results no longer resolve merely in form, but in tactics and methods.<br><br>Method must continue architecture's fundamental dialectic to bridge technology and art. Method must now be inclusive to equally engage the fundamental issues of light, space and form while rising to respond to the new essentialisms of performance, sustainability and social conscious. It is in this process that architecture can assert itself. It is in the process where architecture is perpetually reborn. It is in the process where one's voice can be found as a thinker, and more importantly as an active maker.