Graduate Studies | Architecture

The Graduate Program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture is committed to preparing its students to take leadership roles in the architectural profession as it enters an unprecedented era of rapidly evolving social and environmental imperatives and emerging technological potentials. The Graduate Program promotes creative critical inquiry into the material and cultural contexts within which architecture is practiced today. It provides a comprehensive foundation for practice at all scales and for a future of lifelong learning. Because we are a design-centered program, our studios, seminars, and lecture courses are consistently focused on the process of making through which ideas find form in the field of architecture.

With an average enrollment of sixty to seventy students, our graduate program is small in size and personal in its approach to architectural education. Studio sections typically have eight to ten students per faculty member. Lecture discussion groups and seminars classes have similar student to teacher ratios. But because our program is located within a large college of architecture, students have access to an extraordinary range of facilities including an extraordinary array of advanced and traditional fabrication equipment in the award-winning new Burdette Keeland Jr. Design Center. Graduate students also have access to an exceptionally comprehensive and well-staffed in-house architecture and art library, substantial computing resources, and a diversity of courses and faculty that only a large college can support. Because our program is located near the center of the fourth largest city in the nation, students have access to a faculty that is committed to all areas of practice, from industrial design to urban design, and to a city with one of the largest concentrations of cultural, educational, professional and industrial resources available anywhere.

Although not required for admission, prospective students are encouraged to visit the college during the fall or spring term. It is only when studios and classes are in session that one can experience the atmosphere of creative engagement that the program fosters and the level of commitment that our students maintain in the pursuit of their design projects and course work.

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