2017 Architecture Summer Programs

Are you interested in studying architecture? Looking for a summer program to prep you for entering design school? Listed below are over 100 summer programs from all over the nation. Check it out!

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Architecture Summer Programs

2017 Architecture Summer Programs

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Are you interested in studying architecture? Looking for a summer program to prepare you for school? Listed below are over 100 unique programs from all across the nation. Find the summer program that is right for you.

 

2017 Architecture Summer Programs

ALABAMA

Auburn

Auburn University: Architecture Camp/Design Workshop
June 18 – 23; July 9 – 14, 2017 (1 week) (Auburn)
http://www.auburn.edu/outreach/opce/summerexperience/

Birmingham

Auburn University: Design
July 17 – 21; July 24 – 28, 2017 (1 week) (Birmingham)
http://www.auburn.edu/outreach/opce/summerexperience/

Tuskegee

Tuskegee University: PACT
June 18 – July 1, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.tuskegee.edu/academics/colleges/school_of_architecture_and_construction_science/pact_summer_program.aspx

ARIZONA

Mayer

Arcosanti: Workshops
Contact Arcosanti for Dates
http://arcosanti.org/workshops

Phoenix

Arizona State University: Summer Design Primer
June 26 – 30, 2017 (1 week)
https://design.asu.edu/resources/design-primer

Tuscon

University of Arizona: Camp Architecture
June 5 – 9; June 19 – 23, 2017 (6th-8th) (1 week)
June 12 – 16; June 26 – 30, 2017 (9th-12th) (1 week)
http://capla.arizona.edu/events/camp-architecture-summer-2015

ARKANSAS

Fayetteville

University of Arkansas: Design Camp
June 12 – 16; June 19 – 23; June 26 – 30, 2017 (1 week)
http://fayjones.uark.edu/news-and-events/design-camp.php

CALIFORNIA

Berkeley

University of California at Berkeley: Summer Institute in Environmental Design
July 3 – August 11, 2017 (6 weeks) – College Graduates
http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/summer-institute/

July 3 – 28, 2017 (4 weeks) – High School
http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/embarc-design-academy/

June 3 – August 5, 2017 (5 weeks) – College
http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/discovery/

Girls Garage
June / July 2017 (1 week)
http://girlsgarage.org/programs/summer-camp/

Los Angeles

Architecture + Design Museum
Contact A + D Museum for dates of workshops held throughout the year

University of California at Los Angeles: Jumpstart Summer Institute
July 9 – August 4, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/Architecture/overview.htm

July 9 – 21; July 9 – 28, 2016 (2 or 3 weeks)
http://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/TeenArchStudio

Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design
http://www.laiad.com/

Southern California Institute of Architecture
July 20 – August 4, 2017 (college students) – Making and Meaning
https://sciarc.edu/academics/summer-programs/making-and-meaning/

June 19 – July 15, 2017 (4 weeks) (high school students) – Design Immersion Days
https://sciarc.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-immersion-days/

University of Southern California: Exploration of Architecture
June 18 – July 15, 2017 (4 weeks); June 18 – July 2, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://arch.usc.edu/Programs/SummerPrograms/ExplorationofArchitecture

Woodbury University: High School Summer Academy
Monday, June 26 – Friday, July 28, 2017 (5 weeks) – Monday/Wednesday/Friday only
https://woodbury.edu/academics/summer-programs/hs-summer-academy/

June 26 – July 14, 2017 (3 weeks) – Monday-Friday only (4th – 8th grade)
https://woodbury.edu/summer-architecture-camp/

Riverside

California Baptist University – Riverside, CA – Summer Day Camp
June 26 – 30, 2017 (1 week)

San Diego

Newschool of Architecture and Design: High School Design Experience
August 14 – 24, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://newschoolarch.edu/academics/summer-courses/

San Francisco

Architectural Foundation of San Francisco: Summer Design Institute
June 12 – 30, 2017 (3 weeks)

California College of The Arts: Pre-College
June 26 – July 21, 2017 (4 weeks)
cca.edu/precollege

California College of the Arts: Making Architecture
Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pmJuly 10 – August 4, 2017
http://makingarchitecture.cca.edu/

San Luis Obispo

California Poly State University: Summer Career Workshop
June 25 – July 21, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://www.architecture.calpoly.edu/about/summer-career

CONNECTICUT

New Haven

Yale University: EXPLO 360
June 25 – July 15; July 16 – August 5, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://www.explo.org/360/yale

FLORIDA

Boca Raton

Florida Atlantic University: Architecture Summer Program
July 10-21; July 24 – August 4, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.idac.fau.edu/design/HSSI.html

Gainesville

University of Florida: Summer Design Exploration
June 18 – July 7, 2017 (3 weeks)

Miami

University of Miami: Summer Scholars Program
July 1 – 21, 2017 (3 weeks, full-time in-residence)
http://miami.edu/dcie/index.php/ssp

GEORGIA

Atlanta

Georgia Institute of Technology: Pre-College Summer Program
June 19 – 30; July 10 – 21, 2017 (2 weeks)
https://design.gatech.edu/precollege

Marietta

Kennesaw State University: Summer Design Workshop
July 10 – 28, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://cacm.kennesaw.edu/architecture/programs/summer-design-workshop.php

Savannah

Savannah College of Arts & Design: Rising Star
June 18 – July 21, 2017 (5 weeks)
http://www.scad.edu/admission/admission-information/pre-college/rising-star

Savannah College of Arts & Design: SCAD Summer Seminars
June 25 – 30, July 9 – 14, July 16 – 21, July 23 – 28, July 30 – Aug. 4, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.scad.edu/academics/pre-college-summer-programs/scad-summer-seminars

IDAHO

Moscow

University of Idaho: Summer Design Week
June 25 – July 1, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/news/annual-events/summer-design-week

ILLINOIS

Chicago

Institute of Technology – Chicago, IL – Experiment in Architecture / IntroARCH
June 18 – July 1; July 9 – 22, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://arch.iit.edu/study/special

July 31 – August 14, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://arch.iit.edu/admissions/introarch

University of Illinois at Chicago
July 5 – 28, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://arch.uic.edu/YArch (college students/working professionals)

July 11 – 15, 2016 (1 week)
http://arch.uic.edu/HiArch (high school students)

National Organization of Minority Architects: Project Pipeline
August 2 – 6, 2017
https://www.i-noma.org/project-pipeline-summer-camp

School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Summer Institute Residency Program
June 19 – July 2, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.saic.edu/ecp

Carbondale

Southern Illinois University: Architecture Camp
June 19 – 23 (Grades 4-6); July 9 – 14 (Grades 7-9); July 16 – 23, 2017 (Grades 9-12)
http://kidarch.siuc.edu/
http://conferenceservices.siu.edu/camps-youth-programs/architecture-camp.php

Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Discover Architecture
June 18 – July 1; July 9 – 22, 2017 (2 weeks)
go.illinois.edu/discover

Elgin

Judson University: Architecture Discovery Workshop
July 9 – 14, 2017 (1 week)
http://arch.judsonu.edu/architecture-discovery-workshop/

Oak Park

Frank Lloyd Trust: Design Camps
June 24, July 22, August 12 (1 day)
July 10 – 14, 2017 (Grades 3-5); July 31 – August 4, 2017 (Grades 6-8) (1 week)
http://flwright.org/programs/designcamps/individualsessions

INDIANA

Muncie

Ball State University: DesignWorks Summer Academy
July 9 – 21, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://bsu.edu/cap/designworks

Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame: Career Discovery
June 18 – 30, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://architecture.nd.edu/academics/professional-development/career-discovery/

IOWA

Ames

Iowa State University: Design Dimensions Camp
July 9 – 14, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/camping

LOUISIANA

New Orleans

Tulane University: Career Explorations in Architecture
July 9 – 29, 2016 (3 weeks)
http://architecture.tulane.edu/programs/summer-high-school-program

Baton Rouge

Louisiana State University: Architecture Camp
June 11 – 16, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.outreach.lsu.edu/Pre-K-12/Architecture-Design-Workshop

Lafayette

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Summer 2017 (2 weeks)
https://architecture.louisiana.edu/prospective-students/schedule-your-visit-today/design-discovery-summer-camp

MARYLAND

Baltimore

Maryland Institute College of Art: Summer PreCollege
June 24 – July 22, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://www.mica.edu/precollege

College Park

University of Maryland: Terp Young Scholars
July 9 – 28, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://oes.umd.edu/young-scholars

MASSACHUSSETS

Boston

Boston Architectural College: Summer Academy
June 26 – July 28, 2017 (5 weeks)
http://www.the-bac.edu/education-programs/summer-academy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Urban Frames
Contact School of Dates
http://www.urbanframe.org/ – !2015-three-public-squares/c11cd
Cambridge

Harvard University: Career Discovery
June 19 – July 28, 2017 (6 weeks)
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/careerdiscovery/

Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst: Summer Design Academy
July 9 – 29, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://www.umass.edu/summer/precollege.html

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan: ArcStart
July 10 – July 31, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/architecture/high-school-programs

Berrien Springs

Andrews University: Renaissance Kids 2017
June 10 – 14; June 12 – 16; June 19 – 23; June 26 – 30, 2017 (1 week)
July 4 – 8; July 10 – 14, July 17 – 21, July 24 – 28, 2017 (1 week)
https://www.andrews.edu/said/renaissance-kids

Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook Summer Art Institute: Summer Art Institute
June 26 – July 14, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/SummerInstitute.html

Detroit

University of Detroit Mercy: Architecture Design Camp
June 26 – 30, 2017 (1 week)
arch.udmercy.edu/camp

Lawrence Technological University: Summer Camp
June 26 – 30; July 10 – 14; July 17 – 21; July 24 – 28, 2017 (all 1 week)
http://www.ltu.edu/community_k12/summer_camps.asp

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis

Weisman Art Museum: Teen Architecture Workshop
July 31 – August 4, 2017 (1 week)
http://weisman.umn.edu/learning#community-families

MISSISSIPPI

Starkville

Mississippi State University: Design Discovery
June 9 – 16, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.sarc.msstate.edu/caad_web/sarc/designdiscovery.php

MISSOURI

Kansas City

University of Missouri at Kansas City: Design Discovery
June 5 – 7, 2017
http://info.umkc.edu/aupd/design-discovery-program/

St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis: Architecture Discovery Program
July 9 – July 22, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.samfox.wustl.edu/summer/adp

NEBRASKA

Lincoln

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Career Explorations
June 4 – June 10, 2017 (1 week)
http://architecture.unl.edu/prospective-student/high-school-workshops

NEW JERSEY

Newark

New Jersey Institute of Technology: Summer Architecture + Design
July 9 – 14, July 16 – 21, July 23 – 28, 2017 (1 week)
http://design.njit.edu/coadprograms/summer.php

NEW YORK

New York City

Barnard College: Summer in the City
June 25 – July 21, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://barnard.edu/summer

Center for Architecture: Architecture Camps
June 19 – August 25, 2017 (week long Architecture Camps Grades 3-12)
http://www.cfafoundation.org/summer

City College of New York: Summer Architecture Career Lab
July 5 – August 2, 2017 (4 weeks)
https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/programs-centers/other-programs/summer-arch-career-lab/

Columbia University: Introduction to Architecture 
Contact School for Dates
https://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/2-intro-to-architecture

Cooper Union: Summer Program in Architecture
July 10 – August 4, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://cooper.edu/architecture/school-architecture-summer-programs

The Institute

Parsons The New School For Design: Summer Studies in Constructed Environments
June 26 – July 28, 2017 (5 weeks)
http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/summer-studies-in-constructed-environments/

Brooklyn

Pratt Institute: Pre-College Summer Program
July 5 – 28, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://ww.pratt.edu/precollege

Ithaca

Cornell University: Introduction to Architecture
June 24 – August 5, 2017 (6 weeks)
http://www.sce.cornell.edu/sc/programs/index.php?v=arch&s=Overview

Old Westbury

New York Institute of Technology: Exploring Architecture in Manhattan
July 10 – August 3, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://www.nyit.edu/nyit_academy/exploring_architecture_in_manhattan

Syracuse

Syracuse University: Summer College
July 1 – July 28, 2017 (4-week, 3-credit program)
http://summercollege.syr.edu/program/architecture/

Troy

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Architecture Career Discovery Program
July 9 – 21, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://summer.rpi.edu/programs

NORTH CAROLINA

Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Architecture Summer Program
June 11 – June 17, 2017 (1 week)
http://coaa.uncc.edu/academics/school-of-architecture/summer-camp-0

Raleigh

North Carolina State University: Summer Studios
June 12 – 16 (7th &  8th Grade); July 10 –14, 2017 (10th, 11th & 12thGrade); (day)
June 25 – July 1; July 23 – 29, 2017 (11th & 12th Grade) (overnight) (1 week)
design.ncsu.edu/designcamp

OHIO

Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati: DAAP Camp Summer Experiences
June 5 – 9, 2017 (Day); June 18 – 24, 2017 (Residential)
July 10 – 14, 2017 Cincinnati Architecture Mentoring Program (CAMP)
http://daap.uc.edu/daapcamps.html

Oxford

Miami UniversitySummer Scholars Program
July 2 – 14, 2017 (2 weeks)
miamioh.edu/summerscholars

OKLAHOMA

Norman

University of Oklahoma: Architecture Summer Academy
Contact School for Dates
http://www.ou.edu/content/outreach/youth/9th-12th-grade/architecture-summer-academy.html

Stillwater

Oklahoma State University: Discover Architecture
June 12 – 17, 2017 (1 week)
http://arch-ceat.okstate.edu/discover-architecture

OREGON

Eugene

University of Oregon: Summer Architecture Academy
July 10 – August 4, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://architecture.uoregon.edu/summeracademy

Portland

University of Oregon: Design Camp
Contact the School for Dates
https://aaa.uoregon.edu/uo-design-camp

Portland State University: 2017 Architecture Summer Immersion Program
July 24 – August 18, 2017 (4 weeks)
https://www.pdx.edu/architecture/summer_immersion

PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia

Design Science Lab: Chestnut Hill College
June 18–26, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.designsciencelab.com

Drexel University: Discovering Architecture
July 9 – 21, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/about/summerHighschoolProgram/Summer_Programs_ARCH/

University of Pennsylvania Architecture: Summer at Penn
July 2 – 29, 2017 Residential (4 weeks); July 3 – 28, 2017 Day (4 weeks)
http://jkcp.com/architecture

Temple University: Architecture Institute
July 10 – 21, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://tyler.temple.edu/continuing-education-program/architecture-institute

Pittsburgh

Carnegie Mellon University: Pre-College Architecture
July 1 – July 22, 2017 (3 weeks); July 1 – August 11, 2017 (6 weeks)
http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/pre-college-architecture

Mill Run

Fallingwater High School Residency
June 24 – July 1; July 22 – 29, 2017
http://www.fallingwater.org/142

Scranton

Marywood University: Design Your Future, PreCollege Summer Workshop
July 17 – 28, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.marywood.edu/architecture/design-your-future/index.html

State College

Pennsylvania State University: Architecture & Landscape Architecture Summer Camp
July 16-20, 2017 (1 week)
http://architecture-camps.outreach.psu.edu/

RHODE ISLAND

Providence

Rhode Island School of Design: Pre-College Architecture
June 24 – August 5, 2017
http://precollege.risd.edu/wp/

Bristol

Roger Williams University: Summer Academy – Experience Architecture
July 9 – August 5, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://rwu.edu/academics/schools-colleges/saahp/special-programs/summer-programs/summer-academy

SOUTH CAROLINA

Clemson

Clemson University: Designing the Built Environment
June 25 – July 1, 2017 (1 week)
http://www.clemson.edu/summer-scholars

TENNESSEE

Knoxville

University of Tennessee: Design Matters Camp
July 9 – 14, 2017 (1 week)

TEXAS

Austin

University of Texas at Austin: Summer Academy
June 19 – July 21, 2017 (5 weeks)
http://soa.utexas.edu/apply/summer-academy-architecture

College Station

Texas A&M University: Camp ARCH
July 2 – 7, 2017 (1 week)

Houston

University of Houston: Summer Discovery Program
June 12 – July 14, 2017 (5 weeks)
http://www.wonderworkshouston.org/

San Antonio

University of Texas at San Antonio: Summer Academy in Architecture
June 5 – 16, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://cacp.utsa.edu/academic-programs/department-of-architecture/summer-academy-in-architecture-interior-design/

Prairie View

Prairie View A&M University: Architecture Enrichment Concepts
Contact School for Dates
http://www.pvamu.edu/sa/career-services/pre-college-enrichment/

VIRGINIA

Blacksburg

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University: Inside Architecture + Design
June 25 – 30, 2017 (1 week)
https://sites.google.com/site/insidearchitectureanddesign/

WASHINGTON

Seattle

University of Washington: Introduction to Architecture
June 19 – August 18, 2017 (9 weeks)
July 17 – 28, 2017 (2 weeks)
http://www.summer-camp.uw.edu/

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Catholic University of America: Experiences in Architecture
July 10 – 28, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://architecture.cua.edu/other-programs/experiences-in-architecture.cfm

National Building Museum: Summer Camp Programs for 1st – 6th graders
July 5 – 7; July 10 – 14, July 17 – 21, July 24 – 28, July 31 – August 4, 2017
http://www.nbm.org/families-kids/summer-camp.html

WISCONSIN

Madison

Hip Hop Architecture Camp
http://brandnudesign.com/new-blog/2017/1/31/the-hip-hop-architecture-camp-kick-off

Milwaukee

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Architecture Summer Camp
July 30 – August 5, 2017 (1 week)
http://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/admissions/outreach/summercamp/summercamp.cfm

Spring Green

Taliesin: Summer Immersion Program
January 9 – March 3 (Taliesin West); June 12 – August 4, 2017 (8 weeks)
http://taliesin.edu/news/immersion/

Taliesin Preservation: Architecture Camp
June 12 – 16; June 19 – 23; June 26 – 30; July 10 – 14;
July 17 – 21; July 24 – 28; July 31 – August 4 (1 week)
http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/education/youth-programs

 

Project Pipeline NOMA Chapters – Various Cities
Contact for dates!
http://www.noma.net/article/198/happenings/news/project-pipeline-camp-registration-underway

INTERNATIONAL

ENGLAND

London

Design Quest / Design Day / Skill Up Workshops (RIBA)
http://www.architecture.com/Explore/ExhibitionsandEvents/Workshops/Workshops.aspx

Architectural Association: Summer School
July 3 – 21, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/summerschool

FRANCE

Les Tapies Arts and Architecture Summer Program
June 24 – July 15, 2017 (4 weeks)
http://summer.tasis.com/page.cfm?p=397

INDIA

Tamil Nadu

International Summer School
http://www.agpworkshops.com/

IRELAND

Dublin

UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
http://www.ucd.ie/apep/

UCD Architecture: International Summer School
June 11 – 29, 2018 (3 weeks)
http://www.ucd.ie/apep/study/internationalprogrammes/summerschool/

ITALY

Pontano

CIAO!  Center for Introduction to Architecture Overseas
July 1-22, 2017 (3 weeks)
http://www.ciao-cfsu.org