M.S. in Architecture (Design and Health)
The built environment plays an important role in human health. Evidence-based design suggests a compelling approach to designing healthier environments all around. Architectural and urban design decision making that is grounded in evidence born of experience and experimentation brings relevant data to bear in evaluating alternatives, managing risk, and in balancing the equation of benefits and costs. A reflexive exchange between architectural research and practice is thus at the core of an emergent paradigm of healthier performance-oriented design.
The Master of Science with a major in Architecture and a concentration in Design and Health is designed for practicing architects, industrial designers, systems engineers, nurses, occupational therapists, clinicians, construction professionals, and health administrators who wish to gain additional expertise in design for healthcare environments and healthy communities. Whatever their career path, graduates will be prepared to serve as consultants or project managers on healthcare design projects in consulting firms, healthcare organizations, and manufacturers; help conduct quality improvement and other healthcare projects; lead policymaking around design and planning to improve human health, and other leadership roles.
This program is a full-time, post-professional program. It is a research-based program that requires a minimum of 30 credit hours. The objective is to provide students with the theoretical, technical, and applied knowledge and skills to practice within a range of health-related disciplines. Using project-based learning approaches, students will analyze major trends and issues in design related to health, including healthcare facilities and healthy community. Students will address contemporary design and planning issues related to health by in-depth investigation of best practice examples, design and research methods including evidence-based, lean process improvement, and space syntax analysis that leads to high-performance design that promotes health. The program provides opportunities to engage multiple disciplines in participatory evidence-based design process including architects, systems engineers, clinicians, and hospital administrators.
The program offers students major concentrations in one of three clusters:
· Design in Healthcare Environments
· Design for Healthy Aging in the Community
· Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Design
Students might have opportunities to work with the SimTigrate Design Lab.
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