For students of Harvard College, Architecture Studies is a track within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, History of Art and Architecture concentration, jointly administered by the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Graduate School of Design (GSD). Linking the GSD and Harvard College, the track represents not only a first chance for undergraduates to tap into the Graduate School of Design’s course and event offerings, but also the enrichment that architecture and design thinking can offer to liberal-arts studies.
Architecture stands at the intersection of creative imagination, practical realization, and social use, comprising not only material structures of human occupation, but also the dynamic processes that shape human action and experience. The study of architecture integrates technical and humanistic methods of inquiry with written and visual modes of representation, in traditional classroom venues and “making”-based studios designed especially for Harvard College undergraduate students within this track.
You may find evolving examples of student design work and specifics on the making-based undergraduate courses that the track offers at this site as well: https://architecturestudies-undergrad.harvard.edu/home
Please see more details about the Architecture Studies track, including course requirements, at this link.
