Architectural Design VII – VIII (Final Thesis)

The two semester Thesis studios, Design VII-VIII, are the capstone courses of the B.ARCH program at NYIT, which summarizes and demonstrates the competencies required for this first Professional Degree. The thesis year involves transforming theories into the design of buildings, speculating through architecture. This goes beyond just solving the problem of program and site, to the historical, social, cultural and ideological meanings of the topic.

In Design VII students are expected to develop their projects through invention and research, in which they are expected to gather, select and critically evaluate information relevant to their theme: precedents, site and cultural, environmental, political, economic, and social factors. The analysis and assessment of these factors should be used to write an original architectural thesis and program, presented with clarity in the form of a coherent thesis statement and fully documented premises of a project proposal.

In Design VIII students develop and complete the project to a resolution appropriate to the nature and scale of the thesis proposal. A successful project will achieve these goals and reach an integrated architectural conclusion based on critical assessment of the research throughout the year. Ideally, the Thesis project will become the most sophisticated and substantial achievement of the student’s work.