The School of Architecture at McGill University was founded in 1896. Our mission is to educate professionals who will contribute to the socio-economic and cultural development of Quebec, Canada and the broader global community through responsible participation in the process of the design, construction and interpretation of the built environment.
The School offers professional programs, including B.Sc. (Arch.) and M.Arch. (Professional), and post-professional research programs, including M.Arch. (Post-professional) and Ph.D.
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Director
As of August 1, 2011, Prof. Annmarie Adams will serve as Director of the School of Architecture for a three-year term. Prof. Adams succeeds Prof. Michael Jemtrud who served as Director from 2007 to 2011.
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Faculty Position in Design Research
Please read the notice here.
New M.Arch. (Professional) Options
- Design Studio option (3 terms, 45 credits)
- Design Studio Directed Research option (4 terms, 60 credits)
For details, please see here.
New M.Arch. (Post-Professional) Concentrations
For details, please see here.
Architecture Newsletter
Our second issue: Spring/Summer 2009
Please have a look at Volume #02
Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor
Andrew King (Winter-Summer 2012)
Please read the notice here.
Program information
Professional studies
- Undergraduate: B.Sc. (Arch.)
- M.Arch. (professional)
- Exchange
Post-professional studies
- M.Arch. (post-professional)
- Ph.D.
James McGill ice statue (on the right, beside a bronze cast of the original maquette by sculptor David Roper-Curzon), produced by robot in the lab of Prof. Pieter Sijpkes by MechEng PhD candidate Eric Barnett, as part of SSHRC-funded research with Prof. Jorge Angeles (MechEng) into the architecture of phase change. Completed on 28 April 2010, the statue is 30 cm high, took 132 hours to be built, is composed of 850 layers, and has a total of approximately 24 million trajectory points.
