Fall 2026
Mobile Home Interior, Henry Youngren (B.Arch '26), from "Mobile Home" studio with Jared Abraham at CMU Architecture.
This course is organized as a graduate seminar that concludes the cycle of required courses in the history and theory of architecture for the M.Arch program.
This course provides graduate students with a general introduction to different modes of conducting architectural research, while creating opportunities for cohort building, social exchange, and skills development.
This course explores architectural design methodologies and solutions that are ecologically and environmentally responsible.
This studio unpacks architecture's entanglements with extraction and capital to explore emergent models for transformative socio-ecological praxis using Just Transitions/Transition Design as a prompt and theoretical underpinning.
This graduate seminar explores important writings and ideas being discussed in architecture today in relation to design ethics, one of the central pedagogies of the school and the M.Arch program.
The primary goal of the course is for students to learn about sustainability in the context of the full range of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals so that they can develop an understanding of how they can contribute to a better future through design in the built environment.
This summer course for incoming Carnegie Mellon Architecture graduate students helps to establish a baseline of technical skills appropriate to the expectations of the design culture at the school. All graduate students are expected to be familiar with the protocols and workflows covered in this course.
In this first urban design studio, we focus on timely issues that drive contemporary cities, grounded in the fundamentals of urban theory and practice.
This course introduces students to the practice of urban design by exploring the roles urban designers play in the design of cities and their leadership responsibilities.
With the notion of "critical technical practice" as a touchstone, this graduate-level seminar draws from across design, media, and science and technology studies to cultivate an awareness of the discursive and political dimensions of technology in design, and to guide participants in the formulation of a graduate thesis in computational design.
Commoning the City is a yearlong research‐based design studio on social justice and community‐led urban transformations. Here, students explore design as an agent of change and how to support citizens in claiming their Right to the City.