Architecture & Geography
Architecture
UCLA (2024 IN-PERSON OR Virtual)
The TeenArch Studio Summer Institute program is offered by the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. This program is an intensive three week-long, full-time summer architecture experience for high school students interested in exploring architecture and design thinking.
Structured around the experience of a design studio typically offered within an undergraduate curriculum, the program exposes high school students to the architecture discipline, giving them a sense of the life of a college student. Students will get the chance to experience the architecture profession through the design of a project plus more and receive mentorship from current UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students, alumni, and faculty.
Illinois
The 2024 program will be held July 14-20 in person on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program is organized around the design studio and provides a studio-focused, design-intensive workshop over the course of the week. Students learn such through making as they explore introductory drawing and modeling. They also receive a picture of what to expect from life as an architecture student and an architect. This residential program introduces students to campus and includes travel to one of the Midwest’s most notable architectural landmarks. If you’re intent on studying architecture or just wondering if the discipline might be for you, Discover Architecture will offer a foundational experience that assists prospective students to enter an undergraduate program in Architecture.
USC
“Exploration of Architecture” is an immersive program that engages you with architecture thinking and the design process. This program will challenge you to connect more deeply with the built world by providing opportunities to experience and create meaningful places through dynamic learning methods. You will imagine and draw, as well as discover, examine, and analyze architecturally impactful places and buildings. You will gain insights into the profession through talks, conversations, and interviews with leading architects and scholars. The goal of the program is to stimulate you to pursue further education as architects, designers, and scholars who are leaders in your community and beyond.
california college of the arts
Introducing ways of architectural seeing, thinking, and making, you explore architecture as a 2D and 3D spatial discipline through sketching, drafting, and model building. Daily lecture and discussion sessions help you examine the history and theory behind current and traditional ideas of architectural space. You learn how architects bring form and material to abstract concepts, generate architectural rhythms, and capture space and light through form. San Francisco is a city of world-renowned architecture and cutting-edge design. Students will have the opportunity to explore the architectural landscape of the city.
Harvard Graduate School of Design – Design Discovery
Design Discovery (DD) is a 3-week in person academic program that takes place at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, MA and engages an audience of individuals 18 years old to mid-career professionals interested in gaining knowledge within a single, selected design discipline. Participants enroll in either Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning + Design. The program explores the potentials of design to impact the built environment and the active conditions it choreographs through the material and scale specific to a particular design discipline. Program participants direct design to contemporary issues with an emphasis on hands-on physical modeling, material capacities, fabrication, and assembly, in complement to the Design Discovery Virtual program’s digital media emphasis. Students are taught by Harvard GSD faculty and masters and doctoral degree program graduates in addition to engagement with a broad and diverse network of design talent, across the three disciplines, invited to serve as guest lecturers and critics.
Successful participants receive a program certificate, student evaluation, and produce a draft portfolio of design work that can be shared with design program admission committees, potential design employers, clients, collaborators, or home school programs for course credit consideration.
More architecture programs
Make sure to look at the accepted ages and/or grade levels; many schools do not accept rising sophomores.
Geography
Cambridge Immerse (ages 16-18)
13-15 years
Participants will learn to explore the world around them with an architect’s eye, analysing their environment and identifying how each building, structure, and feature influenced by Britain’s long history with urban design. Both traditional and contemporary styles will be covered, with particular attention paid to Palladian, Gothic Revival, and Modern architectural trends.
16-18 years
Whether creative or technically minded, our architecture summer school is the ideal introduction to the world of architecture. The programme is a perfect fit if you are fascinated by design, buildings, and societies, or considering pursuing a career in architecture.
15-18 years (London)
Architecture is ever evolving, from the Shard to the Shanghai tower, Amager Hill to the Bahrain World Trade Centre, and as such comes an ever-increasing need for new talent with the right blend of technical skills and architectural vision. On this programme, you will learn the basics of architecture and design principles, and be inspired by the architectural vision of peers and professionals while cultivating your own creativity.