Categories: Pre-College
Pre-College 2025 Student Work
Pre-College 2025 Student Work During a two-week summer session, twenty high school students learned about urban design principles. During a field trip to downtown San Francisco, students made observations of the urban design principles at work and made assessments of where it was and wasn't successful. Students then explored, using both physical and digital models,…
Pre-College Art & Design Experience
Pre-College Art & Design Experience Academy of Art University’s free Pre-College Art & Design Experience (PCADE) is for every high school student who wants to take a deep dive into their own creative universe. Study architecture, animation, game design, fashion, fine art, photography, filmmaking, and much more. We’ve designed our college-level courses for high school…
High School Summer Program: Architecture Maker Lab
High School Summer Program: Architecture Maker Lab This course must be taken concurrently with AE ARH 10 Architecture and the City Course Description Architects develop ideas by making. “What if?” questions are tested and refined in drawings and models in an iterative design process. Gain hands-on experience of this foundational design skill in our…
High School Summer Program: Architecture and the City
High School Summer Program: Architecture and the City This course must be taken concurrently with AE ARH 40 Architecture Maker Lab Course Description Architects ask big questions: as online shopping grows, brick-and-mortar stores close. And as remote work becomes prevalent, office buildings sit empty. How can we repurpose the empty buildings? Dream big and…
High School Program: Art in Architecture
High School Program: Art in Architecture Course Description Architectural design is an exercise in creating three-dimensional compositions for people to inhabit. Reinterpret a 2D painting as a 3D structure to imagine immersive spatial experiences. Unlock new discoveries for translating ideas. Create abstractions of the 2D painting to create architectural spaces. Course Learning Outcomes Apply ordering…
Pre-College 2024 Student Work
Pre-College 2024 Student Work Over the course of two weeks, high school students proposed ideas for increasing foot traffic to the Union Square area based on a critique of current zoning. They then created a board game to compare different urban design strategies such as urban rooms, active street walls, mid-block alleys. In the Architecture…