GENERAL INFORMATION
“I learned more than I could have imagined in fifteen short weeks.”
Our curriculum is unlike those at traditional colleges and universities and has sustainable and ecological design at its core.
It is an intensive, multifaceted mix of lectures, field trips, student presentations, readings, discussions, studio time and meetings with community groups and clients. (Click here for sample curriculum). The total immersion experience is designed in a way that matches the complexity of the information we are presenting. The whole process is both a lot of work and a lot of fun.
Our programs are rigorous--they run from 9:00am to 4:00pm five days a week and provide a large quantity of information in a short period of time. This new learning is then applied to the projects we are designing, giving a practical use for this theoretic information. Final presentations on larger projects occur at the end of the semester, while smaller project presentations occur throughout the semester. On completion of the semester students have a total overview of the issues, solutions and promise of sustainable design.
