The Master of Science in Architectural Technologies is a one-year, three-semester program focused on contemporary and near-future design technologies.

Developing Responsive Architectural Strategies

SCI-Arc’s MS in Architectural Technologies program formalizes connections between advanced topics in computational research alongside the rapidly developing innovations in platform applications, game engines, machine vision, and AI.

As platform-based corporations have entered territories traditionally associated with architectural practice, there is an increasing urgency for architecture to develop strategies and tools to address the growing prevalence of systematized workflows within design-oriented disciplines and industries.

SCI-Arc is situated within an important international hub for technology startups, as companies have been drawn to Los Angeles’s unique geographical, cultural, and economic advantages. Tech giants have similarly established a presence to benefit from the dynamic startup culture that is developing research and applications in AI, blockchain, and interactive media.

The Architectural Technologies program actively engages new models of entrepreneurship to maximize student involvement with multiple forms of technological expertise in order to bring disruptive ideas into reality, while investigating how new platforms are fundamentally transforming the way we inhabit and experience the world.