What does it mean to study architecture at a school that refuses to define it in only one way?
In this film, Nathan Hume, Chair of Graduate and Postgraduate Programs at SCI-Arc, reflects on what sets the school’s graduate programs apart and why this moment in the discipline calls for an education like the one SCI-Arc offers.

He begins with culture: a studio environment shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and a student body that is deeply engaged and unusually supportive of one another. Faculty come from across architecture and adjacent fields, bringing a wide range of real-world practices into the classroom and helping students orient themselves within a profession that is constantly shifting.

The M.Arch 1 program welcomes applicants from any background. Whether your studies were in design, engineering, the humanities, or elsewhere entirely, the program is structured for those who are serious about understanding how design shapes the built environment and who want to develop a rigorous, contemporary way of thinking through that question. It is an invitation to reconsider what architecture can be, and who gets to practice it.

The M.Arch 2 program is designed for students who already hold a professional undergraduate degree in architecture and are ready to extend their thinking further. Hume describes a program centered on the questions shaping emerging leadership in the field: how to engage new technologies critically, how to think entrepreneurially, how to lead teams rather than simply participate in them and how to position architecture at the center of construction and development, rather than at its periphery.

Across both programs, SCI-Arc is structured to stay in motion. Its curriculum is intentionally nimble, built to respond to a discipline in flux and to prepare students not just to adapt to change, but to actively shape it.

For anyone considering graduate study in architecture, this is a film worth watching.

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