Architecture - Cranbrook Academy of Art

Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art is a Campus Master Architecture And Related Services degree that prepares you for a Architecture career. Over the past 30 years, the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art has developed a reputation for questioning the boundaries of architecture as a discipline. In a world where information and conversation are no longer restricted by physical boundaries, architecture is no longer restricted by its traditional disciplinary boundaries. Yet as boundaries become more fluid, the architectural delineation of boundaries becomes more significant, not less. The Department of Architecture attempts to delineate the "core work" of architects and the boundaries of architecture , artifice and discourse. The education of architects in the department reinforces the understanding that the work of architecture by its nature is always "in response to." No matter how its boundaries are re-defined, architecture still provides shelter, erects structures, organizes movement as well as ideas, stimulates perception and engages culture. At Cranbrook, the architect is engaged in, not estranged from, the profession of architecture. Architecture is as much background as it is foreground. Whether we conceptualize or construct architecture , it is clear that the object, space, or structure conceived is not only meant to be seen, but also to be seen through. The department positions itself within the Art Academy and the larger context of culture, not in terms of the independent artist, but rather, in the position of the engaged architect -? a figure within a field defined by others. Entering Cranbrook: The department expects that each applicant has earned an undergraduate degree in architecture or can demonstrate an understanding, coupled with an interest, of the seminal issues, context, pressures, performance and criteria necessary for successfully completing a graduate architectural education. Cranbrook offers exceptional students the ability to experiment with ideas and methods that are simultaneously personally compelling and relevant to the history and body of architecture . The department seeks independent students who are invested in the pursuit of contemporary architecture and its relationship to our culture and our physical world. The study of architecture within the context of an art academy, fundamentally changes the resistant plane and discourse of: architectural space, practice, structure, politics, meaning, planning, power and social relevance. Method of Study: It is the current position of the Department of Architecture that tactics and methods deployed to leverage independence and level substantial critique of traditional architectural education and practice should be called into question, if only because these tactics are clearly repeating themselves. It is the obligation of the department to evolve and invent contemporary operational methods and thinking that forecast change. There are no techniques, ideas or methods that are outside of the boundaries of critique and utility. All preconceptions of architecture are, in fact, under fire and questioned and are transported primarily by the vehicle of active inquiry and work. View more details on Cranbrook Academy of Art . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Architecture And Related Services courses.