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Undergraduate Track Description  

For students of Harvard College, Architecture Studies is a track within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, History of Art and Architecture concentration, jointly administered by the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Graduate School of Design (GSD).  Linking the GSD and Harvard College, the track represents not only a first chance for undergraduates to tap into a select number of the Graduate School of Design’s course and annual event offerings, but also the enrichment that architecture and design thinking can offer to liberal-arts studies.  

Architecture stands at the intersection of creative imagination, practical realization, and social use, comprising not only material structures of human occupation, but also the dynamic processes that shape human action and experience. The study of architecture integrates technical and humanistic methods of inquiry with written and visual modes of representation, in traditional classroom venues and “making”-based studios designed especially for Harvard College undergraduate students within this track.  

Please see more details about the Architecture Studies track, including course requirements, at this link.  

The images shown here are of the Harvard Undergraduate Architecture Studies Exhibit in Gund Hall, fall 2017.  This exhibit included drawings, photographs and physical models produced by students of the two undergraduate design studios – HAA 96A Transformations and HAA 96B Connections.

Exhibit Curation: Megan Panzano, GSD Assistant Professor of Architecture and Lisa Haber-Thomson, GSD Design Critic in Architecture 
Exhibit Design:  Megan Panzano, GSD Assistant Professor of Architecture
Exhibit Photographs:  Justin Knight