- McGill University School of Architecture
The School of Architecture is a constituent school of the
McGill University ,McGill University Faculty of Engineering inMontreal , Canada, offering accredited professional undergraduate and graduate degrees and post-professional graduate degrees inarchitecture .The School was established in
1896 , and is housed in the Macdonald-Harrington building at the downtown McGill campus. The Macdonald-Harrington formerly housed thebiology andchemistry departments.The School offers professional programs, including B.Sc. (Arch.) and M.Arch. (Professional), and post-professional research programs, including M.Arch. (Post-professional), Graduate Diploma, and Ph.D.
The curriculum emphasizes freehand drawing with four 'Freehand Drawing' classes and two in the field 'Sketching school' classes
Affordable Homes
The Affordable Homes program is taught by
Avi Friedman . Its mandate is to explore new and innovative approaches to North American housing design.Architectural History and Theory
The History and Theory program, founded, directed and taught by
Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez will celebrate its 20th anniversary in2007 with the Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture Conference.Domestic Environments
The Domestic Environments is the newest program at the School of Architecture. It is under the supervision of Annmarie Adams and explores the role of living space as a shaper and container of social interaction through interdisciplinary, primary-source research.
Minimum Cost Housing
The Minimum Cost Housing was founded with the assistance of the
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in1971 , and it is one of the oldest and most enduring programs of its kind in the world. The primary objective of the program is to return graduates to their architectural careers with an enhanced intellectual base and the ability to think about housing in a rigorous and imaginative way.List of Directors of the School of Architecture
* John Bland
* Bruce Anderson
* Derek Drummond
* David Covo
*Michael Jemtrud Notable faculty
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Percy Erskine Nobbs
*Howard Davies
*Avi Friedman
*Alberto Pérez-Gómez Notable graduates
David Azrieli Arthur Erickson Gregory Henriquez Moshe Safdie External links
[http://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/ School of Architecture]
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