Please Note: The M.Arch. Urban Design and Housing option is not offered in 2020-2021. Applications are closed.
McGill's post-professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) degree concentration in Urban Design and Housing helps prepare accredited professionals of the built environment--such as architects, landscape architects, planners, and civil engineers--to work in this burgeoning area of practice and research.
The program of study for the Urban Design and Housing option is conducted in the heart of Montréal, a city-region centred on a 500km2 island in the St. Lawrence River. This metropolis of almost four million is one of North America's most cosmopolitan, with a vibrant public realm and a richly diverse built environment, ranging from the 17th-century urban form of Vieux-Montréal to sprawling contemporary 'edge cities' on the north and south shores of the Saint Lawrence River. Montréal is also a cultural crossroads for dozens of cultures which greatly enrich its bilingual French/English heritage. We use the city and region of Montréal as our workshop, benefiting from collaboration with the municipal administration and its professional staff. Knowledge of French is useful in this bilingual context, but it is not a requirement of the McGill programs; all courses and studio projects are conducted in English, although students can submit their work in either English or French.
The Urban Design and Housing programme option is presently being restructured! Updates will be posted in mid-2020.