Program Areas Pathways
Through courses in Building Performance, Detail and Fabrication, Health and Wellbeing, History and Theory, Design of Tall Buildings, and Urbanism, students gain a comprehensive education that prepares them for futures in professional design practice, research, consultancy, academia, and beyond.
Graduate students in the M.Arch and M.Arch 2+ programs who choose one of these Pathways will work with a faculty advisor to select the appropriate courses and credits needed.
Integrating structures, enclosures, the environment, and related building systems.
![Exterior rendering of building and facade detail](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/Building-and-Performance_Header-432x304-c-default.jpg)
Architecture as a creative process of making.
![Students in masks holding building materials](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/DF_1-scaled-432x304-c-default.jpg)
Relationships among people, environments, and health.
![People looking at cards on a table.](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/ARCH321.521.SP_.17_ed-432x304-c-default.jpg)
Develop broad knowledge of the integrated nature of design and construction of tall buildings.
![chicago skyline](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/3/2024/07/226617-1200x0-c-default-432x304-c-default.jpg)
The impact of architecture on cities and urban habitation.
![Map of Barcelona etched into plexiglas](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/Hero_3-scaled-432x304-c-default.jpg)
Program Area Pathway questions? Reach out to our Graduate Advisor today!
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