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Princeton University School of Architecture The School of Architecture offers an undergraduate major and advanced degrees at both the master’s

The School of Architecture, Princeton’s center for teaching and research in architectural design, history, and theory, offers an undergraduate major and advanced degrees at both the master’s and doctoral levels. In the undergraduate major, architecture is taught in the context of a liberal arts education, emphasizing the complex interrelationship between architecture, society, and technology. The

curriculum for the master’s degree emphasizes design expertise in the context of urbanism, landscape and new technologies. Architecture is understood as a cultural practice involving both speculative intelligence and practical know-how. Each student constructs a personal course of study around a core of required courses that represent the knowledge essential to the education of an architect today. Princeton University reserves the right to delete user comments that promote commercial ventures or that do not comply with other University or Facebook policies. Posts that are off-topic, abusive, contain profanity, are threatening in tone or devolve into personal attacks will be deleted. Account administrators reserve the right to review all comments and posted materials and remove such materials for any reason.

The School of Architecture’s end-of-year exhibition featuring the work of the Class of 2026 is on view through tomorrow—...
05/25/2026

The School of Architecture’s end-of-year exhibition featuring the work of the Class of 2026 is on view through tomorrow—don’t miss it!

04/29/2026

SoA alumni, please join us Friday, May 22, from 3–5pm for our alumni reception during Princeton University's Reunions Weekend. 🎉

Reconnect with fellow alums in the spaces that shaped your time here and explore the Class of 2026’s work in the School of Architecture’s end-of-year exhibition.

To RSVP: https://forms.gle/zdyA6eMWgLFucV1i9

04/10/2026

Please join us in welcoming Kate Orff, FASLA, Founder of SCAPE, on Thursday, April 16th for her lecture, “Throughlines” at 6pm in Betts Auditorium.

Orff focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects. She is also the Director of the Urban Design Program, Co-Director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL), and Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Orff was the first landscape architect to receive the MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Genius’ Fellowship in 2017.

Free and open to all.

03/20/2026

Inter–Intra– is opening one week from today on Friday, March 27th, 6-8pm at a83 gallery in New York City.

Inter–Intra– brings together seven architectural theses. The projects approach the discipline as a field of relations rather than isolated events, operating within the tension between the collective (inter-) and the individual (intra-). Through tectonic systems, temporal drawings, imaging interfaces, adaptive environments, and infrastructural fictions, architecture emerges as an active instrument, both inter-locking and intra-locking. Inter–Intra– is treated as provisional, shaped by forces, information, and use. Together, the work frames architecture as a relational practice that mediates between collective inheritance and individual speculation.

The seven projects exhibited in Inter–Intra– are conducted in the context of the Post-Professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program at Princeton University’s School of Architecture (SoA), where there is a unique opportunity for professionally trained architects to pursue a two-year program that culminates in a year-long thesis.

The 2026 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis class includes Elina Chen, Franco Denari, Izak Lee, Kunyue Qi, Carson Voelker, Peipei Wu, and Jade Zhang, and is coordinated by Professor Jesse Reiser with Teaching Assistant Ellen Wong.

Inter–Intra–
Princeton SoA Post-Professional Thesis Exhibition
A83 | 83 Grand St, New York, NY 10013
March 27 to April 18, 2026
Gallery Hours | Tuesday to Saturday 12–6pm
Opening Reception | March 27 at 6pm

Free and open to all.

03/18/2026

Join professors Erin Besler and Jay Cephas as they deliver “Architecture Outside,” the Princeton University School of Architecture’s Open House lecture on March 30, 2026 at 6pm in Betts Auditorium. Both faculty members will present their work, showing Design in dialogue with History & Theory.

Free and open to all.

03/16/2026

Interested in Architecture? Current Princeton undergraduate students are invited to learn more about majoring in architecture! Join us at the School of Architecture to meet faculty and students for lunch and conversation. We will gather in the SoA’s South Review Space from 12:30 to 1:30pm on Thursday, March 26, 2026.

Register here: https://forms.gle/vTWRAFQrmcJ8U56n8

Questions? Please email [email protected]

M+Mx25Media and Modernity: 25 Years of Thinking Through MediationMarch 3 to May 1, 2026Princeton University School of Ar...
02/25/2026

M+Mx25
Media and Modernity: 25 Years of Thinking Through Mediation
March 3 to May 1, 2026
Princeton University School of Architecture

The M+Mx25 exhibition offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ongoing experiment: the Media and Modernity program launched at Princeton University in 2000. M+M has operated as a single continuous 25-year seminar, bringing faculty and students from all over the university each week to a concrete and glass room in a brutalist building to explore the evolving entanglements of media and modernities in dialogue with a guest scholar or artist. Around a crowded table in room N-107, discussion is privileged over formal presentations, proximity over detachment, bodies over technologies.

M+Mx25 presents this concentration of ideas and people in a single room and the centrifugal force it generated outwards across disciplines, institutions, geographies, and technologies. Rather than presenting a unified narrative, the exhibition assembles M+M as a working archive: the partial, uneven, and cumulative traces of an ongoing collaborative experiment.

March 3, 2026
Panel Discussion: Beatriz Colomina, Hal Foster, Devin Fore, Irene Small, Tom Levin, Spyros Papapetros, Sylvia Lavin, S.E. Eisterer, and Eduardo Cadava. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture, 5pm
Exhibition Opening and Reception: North Gallery, School of Architecture, 6:30pm

April 7, 2026
“Media Since 2000”: Introductory remarks by Devin Fore, followed by panel discussion on the intertwined histories of media and modernity with M+M core faculty. N-107, School of Architecture, 5pm

Free and open to all.

02/20/2026

The 10th annual Womxn in Design and Architecture conference kicks off next week! This year’s edition honors the life and work of Lauretta Vinciarelli. Free and open to all.

02/10/2026

The first SoA lecture of the spring semester kicks off with “Against Reality,” a talk by Anadis González Márquez and Fernando Martirena, the cofounders and principals of the Havana-based art and architecture practice infraestudio.

Founded in 2016, the studio has developed architectural projects, exhibitions, artworks, workshops, and lectures internationally. Their work engages the political, material, and social conditions of the built environment in contexts shaped by informality, scarcity, and institutional constraint, with a particular focus on contemporary Cuba.

We hope you will join us Thursday, February 12, at 6pm in Betts Auditorium!

Free and open to all.

Please join us for The Context and the Universal, a lecture by the founders of Tham & Videgård, on Thursday, November 20...
11/12/2025

Please join us for The Context and the Universal, a lecture by the founders of Tham & Videgård, on Thursday, November 20, at 6pm in Betts Auditorium. Together, Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård have built their innovative approach into a substantial practice with global reach. Founded in Stockholm in 1999, the firm has a diverse portfolio that runs from objects, interiors and private houses to public buildings, art museums, university buildings, offices, housing and urban planning. Alongside their work as architects, Tham and Videgård have been dedicated to developing the culture surrounding architecture and construction. They have taught at schools in Sweden and abroad and participate in the architects’ organizations that work to strengthen local and national policies relating to architecture.

Free and open to all.

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