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M. Arch I The Master's Program in Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona admits applicants from a wide variety of academic disciplines. Depending upon a student's background the program can take as many as eleven or as few as four quarters of coursework to complete. Architectural design is at the heart of the program, but the department seeks to provide a firm foundation for future work rather than promoting any one particular direction or school of thought. To this end courses in architectural history and theory, structures, environmental systems, human behavior, computer graphics, and professional practice are required components of the program. Some courses are shared with the Department's undergraduate program. There is dedicated studio space for the exclusive use of the graduate program. All students complete an independent Master's project during the final quarter of design studies. The first year graduate class usually enrolls between fifteen and twenty students. The program, as a whole, has a graduate population of about sixty students. This number keeps the student/faculty ratio small, but is large enough to provide for diversity of backgrounds, experience, and accomplishments.
Application Steps a) Submit a California State University Graduate application with the $55 application fee. Applications can be submitted to the Graduate Admissions office in hard copy or electronically at http://www.csumentor.edu/AdmissionApp. Web-based applications are strongly preferred.
A portfolio is required for application to all Architecture Master's programs and should be sent directly to the Department of Architecture, Graduate Admissions Committee. . The portfolio must be bound, and no larger than 9 x 12 inches. Items shown in the portfolio need not be architectural projects, nor should they be limited to mechanical or architectural drafting work. Graduate Admissions Committee members are looking for evidence of creative or analytical ability, preferably in graphic form, but items can also be written, or even mathematical in form The portfolio is evaluated in terms of its design, the quality of the work shown, and the care with which the entire portfolio is assembled. In particular, members of the Graduate Admissions Committee use the portfolio to judge the applicant's design potential and compatibility with the direction of the Master's Program.
Domestic Applications: January 15 Supporting Documents: February 15
Expenses Architecture students spend about $600 per quarter for books, materials, equipment, and supplies during their initial year in the program. The university advises that students allow for at least $975 per quarter for personal expenses including transportation. The estimated costs for one academic year ranges from $12,725 to $15,250 depending upon living accommodations. Transportation Financial Aid Many students obtain part-time positions with one of the many architectural firms in the greater Los Angeles area. Notice of available jobs can be found on the Department's bulletin board or from the Internship Office. Students are advised to work no more than 10-12 hours per week during the quarter to avoid conflict with their academic studies. However, such work can be counted towards the 500 hours of professional experience students in the Master's Program are expected to accumulate prior to graduation.
YEAR ONE: Design Foundation Summer quarter (optional)* * Up to 8 units of the summer quarter may be transferred for credit. Fall quarter (18) Winter quarter (18) Spring quarter (18) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YEAR TWO: Professional Development Fall quarter (18) Winter quarter (18) Spring quarter (18)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YEAR THREE: Exploration and Thesis Development Fall quarter: (18) Winter quarter (17-18) Spring quarter (15-16)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL QUARTER: Thesis/Project
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFESSIONAL ELECTIVE COURSES Arc 333 Energy Conservation (4) Other electives must receive prior approval of the Graduate Coordinator. Required Work Experience The M. Arch program requires 500 hours of work in a professional office. A minimum of 250 hours of work experience must be with a registered architect. The remaining 250 hours may be accumulated with other related offices, subject to the approval of either the Graduate Coordinator or the Department of Architecture Internship Coordinator. All of the work must be verified by the department's Coordinator of Professional Practice and Cooperative Education prior to graduation. CURRICULAR ENRICHMENT Summer Environmental Design Program This program is open to all prospective students in the College of Environmental Design. It combines an introductory environmental design studio with design awareness and design graphics. It is highly recommended to all incoming students and considered to be an extremely useful introduction to the Graduate Program Faculty from the Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning participate in the program. The course may be used for a total of 8 units of the elective courses required in the program. Institute for International Studies Graduate students of the College have the opportunity to study abroad with such programs as the Summer Greek Program which includes travel and study in Paris, France, Biberach, Germany, Italy, and a month-long design studio in Athens. Other programs include one or two quarters in Japan at the Kyushu Institute of Design, a fall quarter program through the Department of Landscape Architecture in Castiglione Fiorentino, Italy, and the CSU/IP (International Programs) in Florence, Italy or Copenhagen, Denmark. A new graduate student spring quarter abroad program in London, England is under consideration, as is a summer program in China. In addition the Department offers funds for independent travel abroad through its Shanks Traveling Scholarship. Department faculty occasionally organize foreign travel/study trips to Italy, Latin and South America, Portugal and Spain. THE SETTING The Department of Architecture Is one of four Departments within the College of Environmental Design, with about one third of the College's 1600 students. The remaining students are divided between the departments of Art, Landscape Architecture, Urban & Regional Planning, and the Center for Regenerative Studies. The College of Environmental Design Is one of the seven colleges and schools within California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The campus is located on approximately 1400 acres of the former Kellogg Ranch, the onetime winter residence of the Kellogg family of Battle Creek, Michigan. Descendants of the Kellogg family's herd of Arabian horses are still stabled on the campus. University enrollment numbers 20,000 including 1800 graduate students. The Department of Architecture graduate program enrolls approximately 60 students. Cal Poly Is located within the greater Los Angeles area of Southern California. The campus is located adjacent to a major freeway intersection connecting it to downtown Los Angeles 25 miles to the west, the rapidly urbanizing areas of Orange County to the south, and western San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, the nation's fastest growing region, to the east of the campus. The Los Angeles region is rich in architectural heritage as well. Important works by some of the best Arts and Crafts and early modernist architects such as Charles and Henry Greene, Irving Gill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, Harwell H. Harris, and Charles Eames, can be found here. Significant new or recent work by Frank Gehry, Rafael Moneo, Arata Isosaki, Richard Meier, Antoine Predock, and a wide range of contemporary architects continues the tradition of innovative work. The geographical setting, ranging from nearly continuous warm beaches and beach communities to mountains which are often snow capped in winter to the high and low deserts, and a variety of foothill communities, provides a unique laboratory for design. Low density sprawl serviced by freeways challenges notions of the traditional city while the aerospace, entertainment, and computer driven industries of the region develop tools and images that hint of new solutions. FACILITIES Graduate Studio Space Studio space in the main ENV building is dedicated for use by the Graduate Program. The studios are adjacent to, or within easy reach of the College of Environmental Design model shop, computer lab, resource center and library, slide and visual resource center, and instructional services print room, and cafe. Convenient parking is located just across the street from the ENV building. Model Shop The College has a fully equipped woodworking model shop near the Graduate studios, with a full time professional assistant available for equipment training and technical assistance. In addition, the College has an instructional services center offering materials, reproduction services, and audio-visual equipment checkout. Computer Facilities The College also has a substantial computer lab, with over 50 computers running on either the MAC OS or WINDOWS operating systems. The lab maintains current licenses on software for word processing, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, image processing, modeling, drafting, rendering, animation, GIS, video editing, and hypermedia. In recent years the Department of Architecture has placed a high priority on the integration of digital media with studio design methods. Most students now use high-end laptop computers for their studio and other course work. Resource Center The College of Environmental Design maintains its own Resource Center with 25,000 books, technical reports, and current periodicals related to the various fields of environmental design; a slide library of 55,000 slides covering the history of architecture, urban design and planning, and landscape architecture form ancient times to present; college archives which also contains numerous donated items including material from the Offices of Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, and Raphael Soriano; and a contract documents and material samples room. Research The University Library house 2.5 million items including bound volumes, periodicals, technical reports, and microfilm. Its catalog can be accessed by home computer systems. The library also provides computerized search access to over 24 million individual titles in more than 15,000 libraries across the country. Library users also have access to popular computer software and personal computers which are maintained by the University Computer Center. Much of the University library is accessible through a local wireless network. The Neutra House The College of Environmental Design is fortunate to have the Richard Neutra VDL Research House as part of its facilities. Located in Silverlake, near downtown Los Angeles, the VDL Research House, designed by Richard and Dion Neutra provides the setting for a variety of exhibits, seminars, community outreach activities, meetings and lectures. Further Information Coordinator of the Graduate Program is Professor Kip Dickson. He may be reached with questions about the program via e-mail at: kadickson@csupomona.edu The Department Administrative Assistant is Roxanna Sanchez. She may be reached for questions related to the status of applications via e-mail at: rksanchez@csupomona.edu. Additional information about Cal Poly or the graduate program in architecture may be found on the University web site at www.csupomona.edu. |
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