Architecture

Yale University

PhD

In New Haven (USA)

Price on request

The best Architecture courses

See all

See all

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    New haven (USA)

Professors Deborah Berke, Peggy Deamer, Anna Dyson, Keller Easterling, Peter Eisenman, Kurt Forster, Stanislaus von Moos, Alan Plattus, Robert A. M. Stern, Anthony Vidler

Facilities

Location

Start date

New Haven (USA)
See map
06520

Start date

On request

About this course

The doctoral program prepares candidates for careers in university teaching, cultural advocacy and administration, museum curatorship, and publishing. It aims chiefly, however, to educate teachers capable of effectively instructing future architects in the history of their own field and its manifold connections with the culture at large. The program forges a unique combination of professional knowledge with a historical and analytical grasp of key phases in the history of architecture, especially those that have a demonstrable share in the field’s current state and the critical issues it faces.

Applicants must have appropriate academic credentials (a master’s degree or equivalent in Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Design, or, exceptionally, in a related field). Two years of professional work in an architecture office are recommended. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test taken no more than five years prior to application is required. All applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT), a test that includes a section on spoken English . The TOEFL requirement may be...

Questions & Answers

Add your question

Our advisors and other users will be able to reply to you

Who would you like to address this question to?

Fill in your details to get a reply

We will only publish your name and question

Reviews

Subjects

  • Credit
  • Staff

Course programme

Required Courses

All Ph.D. students are required to take the following courses. For a complete list of Architecture courses, see the School of Architecture bulletin, available online at and Yale Course Search at

ARCH 551a, Ph.D. Seminar I  Staff

1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. first year, fall term.) This seminar centers on a thorough examination of fundamental ideas of historiography, centering on Rome and exploring aspects of geology, culture, mapping, site development, the establishment of institutions, and the construction of buildings across several millennia, as well as a study of literature on the urbs and its worldwide impact.
F 2pm-3:50pm

ARCH 552b, Ph.D. Seminar II  Esther da Costa Meyer

1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. first year, spring term.) This seminar centers on concepts of history and their application to architecture from Jacob Burckhardt to the present and a close reading of historiographic theories, including ethnography, modernity, and the emergence of the profession of architecture in the light of present-day critique.
Th 9am-10:50am

ARCH 553a, Ph.D. Seminar III  Staff

1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. second year, fall term.) Seminar content to be announced.
F 11am-12:50pm

ARCH 554b, Ph.D. Dissertation Preparation  Staff

1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. second year, spring term.) Ph.D. tutoring in preparation for oral examinations and formulation of a thesis topic.
HTBA

See related categories

  • Architecture Postgraduate Degrees
  • Distance learning Architecture Postgraduate Degrees
  • Yale University Postgraduate Degrees

Architecture

Price on request

The best Architecture courses

See all

See all