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INTRODUCTION

NYIT School of Architecture & Design

At New York Tech, we embrace the growing role technology plays in every facet of our lives, and we seek to leverage its potential as we reinvent the ways that architecture is practiced.

Architecture mediates between ourselves and the world around us - both in its physicality as shelter and social organizer, and in the ideas it evokes, as it reveals what is characteristic and unique about our priorities, our values and our humanity. Inevitably, our architectural heritage concretizes what Is essential about our culture, how we have invested and how we have taken care of our environment.

Our field of operation spans from the infrastructural elements of our region, communities and institutions, to those of individual dwellings and their components. The School of Architecture and Design’s forward-thinking, professional education prepares students for professional leadership and community engagement. Under the guidance of a faculty of experts, degree candidates learn to think critically about architecture, design, and the world around us and to approach their work with intelligence, confidence, and the rigor of practice. Fostering a dynamic studio culture is one of the keys to enable a productive, positive and inspiring learning environment. Diversity is the cornerstone of the student experience, where selfexpression and diverse ideas and perspectives thrive.

Our studio-based education encourages productive collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and global citizenship. Students gain hands-on experience and are equipped with skills to work collaboratively across disciplines, contributing to reshaping spatial, material, and cultural practices in the 21st century. Our international initiatives, travelling studios, study programs and outreach workshops are conducted around the globe, affording students immersive global and cultural experiences. This allows them to create unique portfolios of original works, and to make contacts in the region’s unparalleled networks in industry, the profession and in academia. Located in Old Westbury, NY, and in midtown Manhattan, NYIT’s academic programs in Architecture + Design deliver technology-infused 21st-century design education, and guide our graduates from professional study to professional practice. All NYIT SoAD degrees have STEM designation, making our international graduates eligible for the extended OPT visa. The professional M.ARCH Degree has continuing candidacy status from the NAAB. The professional B.ARCH Degree has enjoyed continuous accreditation status since 1978 and will be up for reaccreditation in 2025. The BFA.ID has enjoyed CIDA accreditation since 1984.

B.ARCH

5 Year Program 160 credits

NYIT’s Bachelor of Science in Architectural Technology develops skillsets in architectural design, building technology and project management. Coursework in the first two years of study is shared with the B.Arch. The subsequent two years offers to students courses in project integration, advanced technology, digital modeling, spec. writing and onsite construction observation. Students may opt to concentrate their elective credits to develop a major concentration in Construction Management. New York State recognizes the value of a B.S.A.T. Degree by offering an accelerated path to in-state licensure – 4 years of education plus 5 years of professional working experience. Successful graduates of the B.S.A.T. are eligible to apply for the 60-credit, 2-year, NAAB accredited 1st professional Master’s Degree Program. The B.SA.T. Degree is offered at both our Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses.

B.S.A.T.

4 Year Program 132 credits

NYIT’s Bachelor of Science in Architectural Technology develops skillsets in architectural design, building technology and project management. Coursework in the first two years of study is shared with the B.Arch. The subsequent two years offers to students courses in project integration, advanced technology, digital modeling, spec. writing and onsite construction observation. Students may opt to concentrate their elective credits to develop a major concentration in Construction Management. New York State recognizes the value of a B.S.A.T. Degree by offering an accelerated path to in-state licensure – 4 years of education plus 5 years of professional working experience. Successful graduates of the B.S.A.T. are eligible to apply for the 60-credit, 2-year, NAAB accredited 1st professional Master’s Degree Program. The B.SA.T. Degree is offered at both our Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses.

B.F.A.I.D.

4 Year Program 109 credits

The mission of the B.F.A.I.D. program is to create globally engaged environmentally sensitive professionals who posses artistic sensibility, intellectual ability, and handson technical proficiency; to prepare interior designers for a lifelong process of interdisciplinary exploration and an acute understanding of human relationships and the built environment. The program stimulates creativity and engenders personal self-confidence, which is the earmark of leadership. The B.F.A.I.D. focuses on the relationship between human performance and environment through an innovative mix of studio design projects, profession-specific coursework, community-oriented projects and professional internships. The program is crafted around contemporary issues, theory, and historic precedents, using both analog and the latest digital media platforms. This program also offers students the opportunity to jump-start a 1- year MBA with a concentration in design management. The B.F.A.I.D. is offered at the Old Westbury and Manhattan Campuses.

M.ARCH

2-Year Track – 60 Credits 3- Year Track – 90 Credits

NYIT’s Professional Master of Architecture, in Continuing Candidacy Status with the NAAB, prepares its students with intensive studio courses, advanced technology for design and fabrication, and the history, theory and liberal arts courses necessary to promote innovation and leadership within the profession. M.ARCH candidates develop the critical conceptual and technical skills to contribute to, and the perspective to lead interdisciplinary teams in the realization of built projects. We believe that the future belongs to the innovators, collaborators, and leaders who are prepared to create sustainable architecture, successful communities and resilient cities. M.ARCH candidates have won recognition from numerous national organizations and will be contributing to the 2021Biennale Exhibitions in Venice and in New York. New York Tech’s M.ARCH program is based at our New York City Campus at Columbus Circle. of urban design in the context of 21st-century cities and regions. The program is located in midtown Manhattan, drawing from world-class faculty, public and private organizations, and active professionals leading global practices based in the New York City metropolitan area. The program works to prepare graduates to succeed in this interdisciplinary field by providing opportunities for case studies to test an apply new insights, theory and designs to contemporary and future challenges. It operates at the intersection of urban form, sustainability and climate change as these issues emerge at the forefront of advanced urban design research.

MS.AURD

1-1/2 Year Program - 36 credits

NYIT’s post-professional Master of Science in Architecture, Urban and Regional Design is for those holding a first professional degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or planning, with an emphasis on design of the built environment. Our M.S.A.U.R.D. confronts the challenges

MS.ACT

1 Year Program - 30 credits

NYIT’s post-professional Master of Science in Architecture, Computational Technologies focuses on advancing innovation through computational paradigms, interactivity, robotics, and fabrication systems applied to architecture. The program culminates in a multidisciplinary project-based studio, challenging students to incorporate experiences from their exploration of algorithms, big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. In addition to promoting digital fabrication and physical computation (robotics) skills, the program focuses on research and investigation of materials and construction systems that define architectural building components.

MS.AHD

1 Year Program - 30 credits

NYIT’s post-professional Master of Science in Architecture, Health and Design, incorporates and promotes the accelerated technological change and scientific innovations of our times. These are creating opportunities for designers to experiment with new, augmented and intelligent materials, spaces, and interfaces and to design environments that have more positive effects on our bodies and minds and improve our quality of our life. This program develops competencies in designing healthy environments through experimentation with material science, health care technologies, analysis and simulation software, data sensing, smart systems and interfaces, 3-D modeling, and fabrication methods.

David Diamond & Giovanni Santamaria Professor & Associate Professor, SoAD at NYIT

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FUNDAMENTALS

Design Fundamentals is an introduction to architectural composition and design and the tools with which they are explored. Its syllabus is delivered through a series of exercises that emphasize the dual influences of intuition and investigation. As they build in complexity, the projects are meant to help students to achieve the visual literacy needed to produce works with conceptual clarity and rigor – to both find and impart meaning to their creative work. The process involves a back-and-forth between creative speculation and skeptical questioning. The first-year studio provides a foundation upon which to build a design education.

Design Fundamentals I begins with first principles and basic physical elements. With these elements, we perform the operations and negotiations to compose in two and three dimensions. We also build the vocabulary to describe and to think critically about form, space, and the world around us. Basic concepts like level, horizon, and threshold trigger deeper, metaphorical links to other moments in the practice, literature, and culture of architecture. Naming our operations builds human awareness of the physical world around us and of our own perceiving selves. We call attention to the horizon, the threshold between earth and air and water, the most basic elements of which life and our environment are formed. The horizon is a universal datum, a liminal threshold between the world of our experience and what is beyond, a marker of time (sunrise and sunset), and the reference against which true level is measured. It is as absolute and universal as it is personal; the horizon is also contingent on our position in space and time, the reference plane that extends outward from our eyes toward the distant meeting of earth and sky. It joins something internal to us with what is most distant. Design Fundamentals II develops the themes of visual literacy, and the anatomy of two and three-dimensional composition. Two project sequences – The Volumetric Vessels and The Bath House, are meant as journeys of exploration and experimentation. In each, underlying organization is given priority over image, resemblance, and style. The “Vessels”, which involves the formal unpacking of piece of visual artwork – predominantly painting and collage - become a laboratory for experimental interpretation of two-dimensional clues to three dimensional events embedded in the works.

The Bath House is an introduction to architectural composition as a habitable matrix of spaces with increasingly real material systems and qualities. Despite the apparent directness of the challenge, there are no easy answers. Working out the problems of narrative program / plan / section / volume / sequence / scale and site, serve as a microcosm of the problems to be encountered in subsequent studios and in practice.

David Diamond Professor, SoAD at NYIT

Kayla Anderson Professor Isaac Southard B.Arch + B.S.A.T. + I.D. Program Fall 2019