BS Sustainable Architecture+Engineering

Objectives and Outcomes

• You will learn how to think critically and innovatively through a sequence of project-based studios.
• To envision a more sustainable future, you will tackle problems at multiple scales, from the craft and assembly of building elements, to design in the urban realm.
• You will develop the design, technical, visual communication, and digital modeling skills needed to address a range of current and future architectural and engineering problems, building upon a strong historic and theoretical foundation.
• Harnessing research projects in a range of laboratories, you will learn how architecture integrates structural and mechanical engineering, building performance, and material sciences in formulating sustainable solutions.

Our program embraces the joys and challenges of inquiring, testing and solving through making as we mine the potentials between architecture and engineering. Through participation in our program, you will receive strong mentorship, develop strong skill sets, and graduate with the ability to generate high-impact solutions to our planet’s pressing environmental challenges.

The Curriculum

The undergraduate Sustainable Architecture + Engineering curriculum includes core coursework to be taken by all declared majors that provides a broad introduction to the major areas of architectural and engineering design with a focus on promoting sustainability in the built environment. 

Through the studio sequence and elective courses, you will gain a breadth of design experience while also developing breadth in specific topics of interest, which range from building performance and energy, earth systems, sustainability, structures and construction, history/theory, urban studies, to fine arts. 

The curriculum culminates in a capstone design experience to be completed by all majors.

Careers

The Sustainable Architecture + Engineering major lays a foundation for a broad range of careers including architecture, structural engineering, construction management, environmental engineering, sustainable design, and urban planning.