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UC Berkeley Summer Programs

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UC Berkeley’s top-ranked College of Environmental Design is offering a suite of dynamic summer programs incorporating architecture in all its forms, designed for participants of all ages and backgrounds.

Summer [IN]STITUTE: [IN]ARCH ADV

July 2-August 10
College Seniors and Post-Baccalaureates
Experience in Architecture Required
International Application Deadline: Friday, May 11
Domestic Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 15

[IN]ARCH ADV participants come from architecture programs across the globe to spend six weeks on the Berkeley campus strengthening their design portfolios, experimenting in the digital fabrication shop, connecting to faculty and practitioners, advancing their conceptual ideas, building an international network of like-minded peers, and learning to see their work, their practice and their world in clearer focus.

Disc* (Design & Innovation for Sustainable Cities)

July 2-August 3
Currently Enrolled College Students
Architecture Experience Welcome but not required
International Application Deadline: Friday, May 11
Domestic Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 15

Disc is an intensive five week summer program that takes an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach to design and analysis in the urban environment, incorporating elements of architecture, landscape architecture, digital fabrication, urban design and city planning into its curriculum. Disc* participants engage in the discourses of urban innovation, acquiring the tools and expertise necessary to craft design-based solutions that meet the increasingly urgent challenges of global urbanization.

Summer [IN]STITUTE: [IN]ARCH

July 2-August 10

College Seniors and Post-Baccalaureates
No Architecture Experience Required
International Application Deadline: Friday, May 11
Domestic Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 15

[IN]ARCH is an intensive program designed to immerse students in the foundational theories and practices of architectural design. The program is structured as an introduction to studio culture and architectural discourse, and serves as a vehicle for further academic pursuits in the field. Most [IN]ARCH participants find themselves making, representing, discussing and thinking in ways unfamiliar to them, and they encounter faculty enthusiastic about introducing new students to this demanding and rewarding field.

Photo Credit: Julie Turgeon

 

embARC Summer Design Academy

July 2-27

High School Students

No Architecture Experience Required
International Application Deadline: Friday, April 20
Domestic Application Deadline: Monday, April 30

embARC brings together high school students from diverse backgrounds to explore architecture, urban design and sustainable city planning through integrated components: an Architecture + Urban Design Studio, a Sustainable Planning Workshop, a Digital Design Workshop, an Environmental Design Conversations Series, and a Community Build Project.

Summer [IN]STITUTE: [IN]LAND

July 2-August 10

College Seniors and Post-Baccalaureates
No Architecture Experience Required
International Application Deadline: Friday, May 11
Domestic Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 15

The [IN]LAND program introduces participants to the practice of landscape architecture as an active inquiry. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of landscape architectural practice through the process of making and experimentation as research into site potentials.  Initial ideas will be developed and transformed through rigorous investigation in a collaborative studio environment.  Students will develop a landscape vocabulary that engages with the concepts of ecology, public space, sustainability and multiple scales of design.

 

Photo Credit: Alice An

 

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Learn more about CED Summer Programs!

 

MSU Hosts Design Summer Camp in Downtown Jackson

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(via Mississippi State University Newsroom)

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design is hosting a design camp for students from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi.

Taking place through Friday [June 24], the five-day summer experience in Jackson is helping students in the Greater Jackson community develop their interests in architecture, art, community development, design, engineering, planning, social justice and related professional fields.

Students are gaining knowledge of design tools and media through individual and group workshops focused on design, sketching, photography, graphic design, model building, sculpture and construction, among other skills. Collaboration, leadership and communication skills also are being developed, which will help students increase their self-confidence in these areas, leaders said.

Faculty of MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design—as well as those from the university’s College of Business—are leading students in collaborative and creative activities focused on design education. MSU alumni are leading discussions on design-related career opportunities and providing information about their educational and professional experiences.

CAAD Associate Dean and Professor Greg Hall said the camp is designed to help expose students to the wide variety and scope of educational and career opportunities in design fields ranging from architecture to graphic design and interior design to fashion, as well as related fields such as engineering and construction.

“One of our primary goals is to help students form educational and professional goals that they can continue to develop during their high school education, regardless of their eventual career choice,” Hall said.

In addition to being funded in part by a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson, this year’s camp is supported by MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design, its School of Architecture and Department of Art, the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center and Office of the Registrar.

Lori Neuenfeldt, MSU art instructor and gallery director, and architect Emily Roush-Elliott of the university’s Carl Small Town Center, are serving as camp co-directors.

For additional camp information, contact Hall at 662-325-2509 or ghall@caad.msstate.edu.

Learn more about MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design at www.caad.msstate.edu, facebook.com/CAADatMSU, twitter.com/CAADatMSU and http://tinyurl.com/CAADatMSUYouTube.

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Check out Mississippi State University’s Architecture Program Profile Page on StudyArchitecture.com!

Image: A design camp led by faculty of Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design is helping students in the Greater Jackson community explore their interests in architecture, art, community development, design, engineering, planning, social justice and related professional fields. (Photo by Lori Neuenfeldt)