Five year Architecture program
Hampton University
Key Information
Campus location
Hampton, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
5 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
USD 26,198
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Introduction
Hampton University’s Department of Architecture, long a recognized leader among programs at HBCUs, aims its students toward successful careers as licensed professionals nationally. Our student body comes from all over the world, and our faculty reflects the diversity of our students.
Within the program, students move from high school to a fully accredited Master of Architecture degree in five years. While learning the arts of design, students also learn of the potential for individual buildings to work to create urban spaces in which community life plays out, to travel to study the design of cities abroad, and to learn the basics of engineering and building technologies.
At the Hampton University Department of Architecture, we take the opportunities and responsibilities of our field quite seriously, as we are part of the crafting of the world in which we do and will live. And we believe learning how to make buildings well can offer some serious fun and reward.
Objectives
Broadly, the Department of Architecture takes as its mission to prepare students for successful careers as professional architects. We teach the fundamentals of building technology, structural and mechanical systems, urban and architectural design, architectural theory and history, ecology, and of professional ethics and responsibility, all in the service of preparing students to flourish within the profession of architecture. Some students find careers in related fields like landscape architecture, urban design, and construction management. We believe the skills developed in our program of critical thinking and iterative, synthetic design skills allow them to flourish.
Within the basic trajectory of preparation for professional accomplishment, the program takes as core interests a focus on design for underserved urban communities, on the sustainable building including an interest in historic preservation, and building appropriately at the water’s edge. These interests are built upon a shared philosophy among the faculty, promote civic opportunity and engagement locally, and build future professionals ready to assume global responsibilities.
Hampton University is, of course, an HBCU. We are proud of the program’s diversity in both student and faculty rosters and seek to provide a strong education for all our students. Along the way, in any given year, we are likely to have graduated the highest number of African American women with advanced professional degrees in the country.
Concentrations
Adaptation to Sea Level Rise
The Hampton University Department of Architecture has established one of the first programs devoted to design solutions adapting coastal urban communities to the challenges posed by Sea Level Rise.
An emerging field of inquiry, a knowledge base in and completion of the requirements for a concentration in the field should provide an advantage to graduates seeking employment. Further, as the program is rooted in an active collaborative process with policymakers, area professionals, and engineering students from other state universities, potentially employers will recognize the special skills required for successful collaboration.
Since its inception, students engaged in the program have been active in community engagement processes, have been invited participants in an international design program, and have been speakers before municipal and state officials, and at regional and national conferences.
The Department of Architecture has been named one of six programs nationally to form the National Resilience Initiative, formed by the Clinton Global Initiative and the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program and overseen by the American Institute of Architects.
The concentration is an available addition to the Master of Architecture degree, requiring completion of two courses offered in the Department, one offered by the university’s Marine Science Program, and one offered online by Old Dominion University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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Program Tuition Fee
Curriculum
First Year
- ARC 101 Studio 5
- ARC 102 Studio 5
- ARC 207 Architectural History I 3
- ARC 208 Architectural History II 3
- ENG 101 Written Communications I 3
- ENG 102 Written Communications II 3
- MAT 118 Pre-Calculus II 3
- COM 103 Oral Communications 3
- UNV 101 Individual & Life 1
- Elective Art 2
- HEA 200 Health Education (PED) 2(1)
Second Year
- ARC 201 Studio 5
- ARC 202 Studio 5
- ARC 203 Representation I 3
- ARC 204 Representation II 3
- ARC 213 Elements of Building Assembly 3
- ARC 200 Architectural Ecology 3
- PHY 201 Introduction to Physics 4
- ARC 309 Structures I 3
- Elective 3
- Elective Art 3
Third Year
- ARC 303 Studio 6
- ARC 304 Studio 6
- ARC 310 Structures II 3
- ARC 315 Environmental Systems 3
- ARC 314 Building Assemblies 3
- ARC 317 Global Theories of Urban Design 3
- HUM 201 Humanities 3
- ARC 301 International Travel Prep 1
- Elective 3
- HIS 106 World Civilizations II 3
- (PED) (1)
Summer One
- ARC 305 International Travel Studio 3
- ARC 306 International Urban Design Studio 3
Fourth Year
- ARC 405 Studio 6
- ARC 406 Studio 6
- ARC 414 Advanced Structures III 3
- ARC 411 Contemporary Arch Theory 3
- ARC 517 Professional Practice I 3
- ARC 518 Professional Practice II 3
- ARC 516 Building Systems Integration 3
- Elective 3
- Elective Social Science 3
- Elective Social Science 3
Summer Two
- Internship
Fifth Year
- ARC 601 Studio 6
- ARC 602 Studio 6
- ARC 617 Seminar-Tech Issues 3
- ARC 618 Seminar-Community Issues 3
- ARC 530 Architecture Elective 3
- ARC 530 Architecture Elective 3
Total: 168
Thesis
In the last year of the professional program, students explore an architectural problem of current relevance. They conceive a proposal for change through design that is put to test in the 2nd part of the academic year. Students’ involvement in the thesis studio advances their design knowledge and skills and builds research skills through hands-on engagement. Students are also well prepared for post-graduate studies if they choose to combine their professional education with another area of knowledge.
Students research an architectural problem of personal interest, that reflects a pressing issue of today, and that is of concern to the larger professional community. They construct an argument for change, for resolving the problem – a proposal for research through design. Research, as a logical and systematic investigation, requires creativity and imagination. Design research means thinking in action, making as research, and designing as making. It involves an iterative design process to “map” a field of possible solutions to the problem.
These have dealt with a wide range of issues and proposals: from temporary housing on icebergs to housing for itinerant crab-picking workers to edible gardens for flooding control to new structures for Makoko, to storm sheltering towers, to personal earthquake-proof pods for housing towers, to pop-ups as the new boutiques, to rooftop forests for urban schools, to big box retail deconstructed into farms.