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2024 Summer Architecture Programs

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Are you interested in studying architecture and looking for a summer opportunity? Listed below are over 100 unique programs located across the United States and internationally. These programs range from pre-college sessions to summer design camps. Browse the list below to find a summer program that is the right fit for you. 

We encourage you to visit the websites linked below to verify the most recent details as programs continue to update since the posting of this article. 

Hoping to promote your summer program on this list? Email info@acsa-arch.org!

UNITED STATES

 

NORTHEAST

 

Barnard College – New York, NY
https://precollege.barnard.edu
Session 1: June 30 – July 19, 2024 – High School (3 weeks)
Session 2: July 22 – August 10, 2024 – High School (3 weeks)

Boston Architectural College – Boston, MA – (Online or in person)
https://the-bac.edu/academics/summer-academy
July 1 – August 2, 2024 – High School (5 weeks)

Boston Society of Architects – Boston, MA
https://www.architects.org/programs/k12-arch-design-high-school-internships
July 8 – August 16, 2024 – High School (6 Weeks)

Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.cmu.edu/pre-college/academic-programs/architecture.html
June 22 – July 27, 2024  – High School (5 weeks)

Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History with Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture – Pittsburgh, PA
https://camps.artandnaturalhistory.org/calendar/?week=-1&event_category=0&event_audience=110
Various dates between June and August 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more. 

The Catholic University of America Experiences in Architecture – Washington, DC
High School Program – Catholic University – Washington DC | CUA
July 7 – 20, 2024 – High School and College (2 weeks)

Center for Architecture Foundation – New York, NY
https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/k-12/youth-family-programs/summer-programs/
Summer 2024 Dates TBD – Grades 3-12 (4 weeks)

Cincinnati Architectural Mentoring Program – Cincinnati, OH
https://www.cincyarchcamp.org/summer-camp
July 7 – 13, 2024 – Rising 8th and 9th grade (1 week)

Columbia University – New York, NY (Online and in person)
https://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/2-intro-to-architecture
July 8 – August 9, 2024 – College and Post-Grad (5 weeks)

Cooper Union – New York, NY (Online)
Introduction to Architecture for High School Students 

July 8 – August 9, 2024 – High School (5 weeks)
Introduction to Architecture for College Students 

July 8 – August 2, 2024 – College (4 weeks)

Cornell University – Ithaca, NY  (Online)
https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/online
Session I: June 3 – 21, 2024 – High School and College (3 Weeks)

Session II: June 24 – July 12, 2024 – High School and College (3 Weeks)

Session III: – August 2, 2024 – High School and College (3 Weeks)

June 24–August 6, 2024 – High School and College (6 Weeks)

Drexel University – Philadelphia, PA (Online and in person)
http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/about/summerHighschoolProgram/Summer_Programs_ARCH/
July 7 – 20, 2024 – High School (2 weeks)

Fallingwater – Mill Run, PA (Online)
https://fallingwater.org/virtual-summer-camps/
June 17 – 21, 2024 – High School (1 week)
August 5 – 9, 2024 – High School (1 week)

Global Solutions Lab – Chestnut Hill College – Philadelphia, PA (Online)
http://www.designsciencelab.com
June 17 – 21, 2024 – High School, College, and Post-Grad (2 weeks)

Harvard University – Cambridge, MA (Online)
https://earlydesigneducation.gsd.harvard.edu/harvard-gsd-design-discovery-virtual/
June 10 – 28, 2024 – College and Post-Grad (3 weeks)

Maryland Institute College of Art – Baltimore, MD
https://www.mica.edu/non-degree-learning-opportunities/programs-for-youth/programs-for-teens/summer-pre-college-program/
June 30 – July 13, 2024 – High School (2 weeks)
June 30 – July 27, 2024 – High School (4 weeks)

July 14 – 27, 2024 – High School (2 weeks)

University of Maryland – College Park, MD (Online and in person)
https://oes.umd.edu/administrative/terp-young-scholars-mentor-opportunities
July 8 – 26, 2024 – High School (3 weeks)

Marywood University, School of Architecture (MUSoA) – Design Your Future Architecture + Design Program – Dunmore, PA

https://marywood.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1541&p=1 

June 22 – 29, 2024 – High School (1 week)

New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ
http://design.njit.edu/coadprograms/summer.php
July 7 – 12, 2024 – High School (1 week)

July 7 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 weeks)
July 14 – 19, 2024 – High School (1 week)

July 14 – 19, 2024 – High School (1 week)

Norwich University – Summer Design Academy – Northfield, VT
https://www.norwich.edu/academics/non-degree-and-high-school-student-programs/camps-hands-learning-experiences/summer-design-academy
July 7 – 13, 2023 – High School (1 week)

The Pennsylvania State University – State College, PA
http://architecture-camps.outreach.psu.edu/
July 28 – August 1, 2024 – High School (1 week)

Phillips Exeter Academy – Exeter, NH
http://www.exeter.edu/exeter-summer
July 6 – Aug 8, 2024 – Middle School and High School (5 weeks)

Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, NY (Online and in-person)
https://www.pratt.edu/continuing-and-professional-studies/precollege/summer-precollege/
July 8 – August 2, 2024 – High School (3 weeks)

Prince George’s County Memorial Library System – PG County, MD 

Bladensburg Branch Camp: July 22 – 26, 2024 – High School (1 week)

Fairmount Heights Camp: August 5-9, 2024 – High School (1 week)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Troy, NY (Online and in-person)
http://summer.rpi.edu/programs

In-Person: July 8 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 weeks)

Online: July 22 – August 2, 2024 – High School (2 weeks)

Rhode Island School of Design – Providence, RI  (in-person)
http://precollege.risd.edu
Session I: June 22 – July 20, 2024 (4 Weeks)

Session II: July 21 – August 18, 2024 (4 Weeks)

Roger Williams University – Summer Academy – Bristol, RI
http://rwu.edu/academics/schools-colleges/saahp/special-programs/summer-programs/summer-academy
July 7 – August 3, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks)

Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY (Online and in person)
https://precollege.syr.edu/programs-courses/
Various dates between July and August 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more.

‘T’ Space Summer Architectural Residency – Rhinebeck, NY (Online and In-Person)
https://tspacerhinebeck.org/residency/
July 5 – August 2, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks)

Temple University – Philadelphia, PA
http://tyler.temple.edu/continuing-education-program/architecture-institute
Session I: July 8 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)
Session II: July 22 – August 2, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

Wentworth Institute of Technology – Boston, MA
https://wit.edu/admissions/pre-college/impact-lab
Session One: July 7 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

Session Two: July 21 – August 2, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

 

SOUTHEAST

 

Auburn University – Auburn, AL
http://www.auburn.edu/outreach/opce/auburnyouthprograms/architecture.htm
Session I: June 2 – 7, 2024 – High School (1 Week)
Session II: July 7 – 12, 2024 – High School (1 Week)
Session III: July 14 – 19, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Clemson University – Clemson, SC
https://www.clemson.edu/summer/summer-scholars/classes/designing-build-environment.html
June 2 – 7, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA
https://design.gatech.edu/precollege
Session I: June 16 – 28, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)
Session II: July 7 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge, LA
https://design.lsu.edu/programs-and-initiatives/pre-college-camps/architecture-design-workshop/
June 9 – 14, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Mississippi State University – Starkville, MS
https://www.caad.msstate.edu/academics/camps/architecture
June 2 – 8, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

North Carolina State University – Raleigh, NC
https://design.ncsu.edu/designcamp/
July 8 – 12, 2024 – Middle School (1 Week)

July 29 – August 2, 2024 – Middle School (1 Week)

July 29 – August 2, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

June 23 – 29, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

July 14 – 20, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Savannah College of Arts & Design – Atlanta and Savannah, GA 
https://www.scad.edu/academics/pre-college-summer-programs/rising-star
June 16 – July 19, 2024 – High School (5 Weeks)

Tulane University – New Orleans, LA
https://summer.tulane.edu/areas-of-study/architecture
Dates TBD – High School

University of Miami – Miami, FL
http://ssp.dcie.miami.edu/
June 29 – July 19, 2024 – High School (3 Weeks) 

June 29 – July 12, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
http://coaa.uncc.edu/academics/school-of-architecture/summer-camp-0
June 9 – 15, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

University of Tennessee – Knoxville, TN
http://archdesign.utk.edu/news-events/design-matters-camp/
July 14 – 20, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Virginia Tech School of Architecture & Design – Blacksburg, VA (Online and in person)
https://archdesign.caus.vt.edu/special-programs/inside-architecture-design/
Session I: June 16 – 21, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Session II: June 24  – 28, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Virtual Session: July 16 – 21, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

 

EAST CENTRAL

 

 Ball State University – Muncie, IN

https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/cap/workshops/apcamp 

 June 24 – 28, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

http://bsu.edu/cap/designworks
July 7 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

Lawrence Technological University – Detroit, MI
https://www.ltu.edu/summer-camps/
July 8 – 12, 2024 – High School (1 Week)
July 15 – 19, 2024 – High School (1 Week)
July 22 – 26, 2024 – High School (1 Week)
July 29 – August 2, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Miami University – Oxford, OH
http://miamioh.edu/admission/high-school/summer-scholars/
Session 1: July 7 – 12, 2024 (1 Week)
Session 2: July 14 – 19, 2024 (1 Week)

The Center for Architecture & Design – Columbus, OH
https://www.columbuscfad.org/high-school-design-studio/
June 17 – 28, 2024 (2 Weeks)

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
http://www.taubmancollege.umich.edu/architecture/high-school-programs/arcstart
July 8 – 26, 2024. – High School (3 Weeks)

University of Notre Dame – Notre Dame, IN
http://architecture.nd.edu/academics/professional-development/career-discovery/
 June 16 – 28, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

 

WEST CENTRAL

 

HiArch – University of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
https://arch.uic.edu/hiarch
Week 1: July 15 – 19, 2024 – High School (1 Week)
Week 2: July 22 – 26, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago, IL
https://arch.iit.edu/study/eia
July 8 – 19, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

Judson University – Elgin, IL
https://www.judsonu.edu/academics/architecture-department/design-discovery-camp/
July 7 – 12, 2024  – High School (1 Week)

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
https://ceat.okstate.edu/arch/discover-architecture.html
June 26 – 29th, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts – St. Louis, MO
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/academics/pre-college-programs/architecture-discovery-program
July 14 – 27, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
http://saic.edu/ecpsi
Various dates between June and July 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more.

Taliesin Preservation – Wisconsin (Online and In-Person)
https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/events/category/programs/summercamps/
Various dates between June and July 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more.

University of Colorado Denver – Denver, CO
https://architectureandplanning.ucdenver.edu/architecture/academics/high-school-programs
June 17 – 21, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

University of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
http://arch.uic.edu/YArch
July 1 – 26, 2024 – College (3 Weeks)

University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS
http://design.ku.edu/designcamp
June 9 – 15, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Lincoln, NE
http://architecture.unl.edu/prospective-student/high-school-workshops
June 9 – 14, 2024 –  High School (1 Week)

University of Oklahoma – Norman, OK
https://pacs.ou.edu/precollegiate/9th-12th-grade/architecture-summer-academy/
TBD – K-12

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Milwaukee, WI
https://uwm.edu/sarup/future-students/architecture-summer-camp/
August 4 – 10, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

 

SOUTHWEST

 

University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, AR
https://fayjones.uark.edu/news-and-events/design-camp.php
Various dates throughout June 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more. 

University of Houston and Rice University- Houston, TX
http://www.wonderworkshouston.org/
June 17 – July 19, 2024 – High School (5 Weeks)

University of New Mexico -Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM
https://saap.unm.edu/academics/adsa.html
June 10 – 22, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

June 10 – 28, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

July 8 – July 19, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

July 8 – July 26, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

University of Texas San Antonio – San Antonio, TX (Online and in person)
https://ceid.utsa.edu/architecture-planning/summer-academy/
June 3 – 14, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

Texas A&M University – College Station, TX
https://www.arch.tamu.edu/academics/high-school-outreach/camp-arch/
July 8 – 13, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

 

WEST

 

California Baptist University – Riverside, CA – Summer Day Camp
http://cavad.calbaptist.edu/programs/summer
July 8 – 12, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

California College of The Arts – San Francisco, CA (Online and in person)
https://portal.cca.edu/learning/special-programs/pre-college-program/architecture/
June 24 – July 26, 2024 – High School (5 Weeks) (online)

July 8 – August 2, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks) (in person)

California Poly State University – SLO – San Luis Obispo, CA
https://architecture.calpoly.edu/about/summer-career
June 23 – July 19, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks)

Girls Garage – Berkeley, CA – Summer Camp
https://girlsgarage.org/programs/summer/
Various dates between June and July 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more. 

SoCal NOMA Project Pipeline Summer Camp – East Los Angeles College, CA
https://socalnoma.org/summer-camp/
Summer ‘24 Dates TBD – Ages 10 -18 (4 Weeks)

Southern California Institute of Architecture – Los Angeles, CA
https://sciarc.edu/mm
July 1 – 26, 2024 – College, Professionals (3 Weeks)

Southern California Institute of Architecture – Los Angeles, CA
https://www.sciarc.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-immersion-days
June 17 – 12, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks)

embARC Summer Design Academy – UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design – Berkeley, CA
https://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/embarc-summer-design-academy
July 1 – 26, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks)

DISC: Design + Innovation for Sustainable Cities – UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design – Berkeley, CA
http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/discovery/
July 1 – August 2, 2024 – College (4 Weeks)

University of California, Los Angeles– JumpStart – Los Angeles, CA
https://www.aud.ucla.edu/academics/summer-programs#jumpstart
June 24 – July 19, 2024 – High School Graduates (4 Weeks)

University of California, Los Angeles– TeenArch Studio – Los Angeles, CA (Online and In-Person)https://www.aud.ucla.edu/academics/summer-programs#teenarch-studio
July 1 – July 19, 2024 – High School (3 Weeks)

University of Idaho – Moscow, ID  (Online and In-Person)
https://www.uidaho.edu/caa/highschool-events/design-days
June 26 – 29, 2024 – High School (1 Week)

University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA
https://arch.usc.edu/high-school-program-exploration-of-architecture
June 16 – July 13, 2024 – High School (4 Weeks)

University of Washington – Summer Youth Programs – Seattle, WA
https://www.summer-camp.uw.edu/camps-courses-masters/architectural-studies/
July 1 – 12, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

July 15 – 26, 2024 – High School (2 Weeks)

 

INTERNATIONAL

 

Architectural Association Summer School (Online and in person)
https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/academicprogrammes/visitingschool
Various programs are available, please visit the website to see dates and learn more. 

Carleton University – Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA – Studio First  (Online)
https://carleton.ca/architecture/programs/studiofirst/
May 14 – June 18, 2024 – College and Professional (5 Weeks)
June 25 – July 30, 2024  – College and Professional (5 Weeks)

Carleton University – Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA – Imagine Architecture (Online and in person)
https://architecture.carleton.ca/non-degree-programs/imagine-architecture
Various dates between July and August 2024 are available, please visit the website to learn more. 

CIAO!  Center for Introduction to Architecture Overseas – Pontano, Italy
https://ciaocfsu.org
July 6 – 27, 2024 – High School (3 Weeks)

IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School in Finland 
https://ifhpsummerschool.wordpress.com/
2024 Dates are TBD

Porto Academy Visiting Spain – Barcelona
https://portoacademy.info/event.php?event_id=78
July 15 – 22, 2024 – College and Professional (1 Week)

 

NOMA LA: Project Pipeline Summer Camp

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Summer 2020 has been a unique experience, to say the least. Summer architecture programs, as they once were, have been forced to pivot quickly and plan for a completely virtual experience or cancel altogether. Although COVID-19 has drastically shaped the experience of many summer programs across the country, we did not want to let that stop us from sharing about a few of them. Earlier this fall, we sat down with the Louisiana Project Pipeline Program Coordinator, Bryan Bradshaw, to get his perspective on what makes the camp he coordinates so unique. He started by telling us the origin story of Project Pipeline, before walking us through its transformation under his leadership.

The Project Pipeline Summer Camp is part of a broader community-focused program called Project Pipeline, “a mentorship program established by National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) in 2002 designed to encourage equality within the profession and provide an introduction to young students interested in the world of architecture and design.” The program currently consists of a “summer camp and a workshop series throughout the year, all within the framework of achieving a sustained mentorship program.” The Summer Camp gives rising 8th through 12th graders the opportunity to work with local architects, designers, and community professionals to design a building or block for their community. With a focus on social justice, design justice, urban planning, and architecture, this camp seeks to “empower young people to affect change in their community through design using the city as a classroom.” 

One mentor had this to say about Project Pipeline mentoring program: 

[It] teaches a democratized practice of community-based design in the tradition of the earliest Black architects at Tuskegee and the activist designers of ARCH, the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem. We teach our students that design is political. We build neighborhoods and cities collectively, pushing back against the individualistic culture of ‘starchitecture’ that helps to perpetuate White and male domination in our profession. 

In NOMA Louisiana Project Pipeline, and in other programs around the United States, we teach that merely changing who is represented in positions of power is not enough to transform our built environment. We are changing how we practice. My fellow mentors are not just Black and other people of color; they’re architects, designers, and planners who actively seek to create a more just and equitable world through their work. The students and mentors I’ve met through Project Pipeline have become my mentors, employers, employees, and best friends. They’re the people I learn from and the people I cite; an ever-expanding community seeking justice in, and through, the built environment. Project Pipeline has the power to transform the design professions at every level, for everyone. The state of the world reminds me daily why it’s necessary that we do so.

-Chris Daemmrich, a Project Pipeline Mentor

Responding to the global pandemic, Bradshaw and his team pivoted to host a completely virtual, weeklong camp that drew students from New Orleans and as far as the Carolinas. Students outside of New Orleans were shipped the materials backpack (see image below), while the locals got to meet their mentors from a distance when they came to drop the backpack off on the students’ doorsteps. The camp attendees each received model-making materials, legos, pens and paper, and a workbook guide for the week in the backpacks. The week was filled with daily one-on-one zoom calls with mentors, along with critiques and model-making, concluding with a presentation to peers and mentors. After completion of the camp, they also received a NOMA Louisiana mask, camp certificate and copy of three books: Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, African American Architects: Embracing Culture and Building Urban Communities, and Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity.

Bradshaw and his team assemble material packets for the virtual camp.

Backpacks packed with model-making materials, legos, pens and paper, architecture magazines, and a workbook guide for the week.

 

Typically, the camp focuses on a collective neighborhood that is created by the students’ response to functional needs in their build environment; though the virtual format afforded a new opportunity to have the students think more in-depth about their personal communities. The students were asked to design an ideal “city block” in their area and make a list of functional needs that would specifically enhance the quality of life for their neighbors. The students were then given a prompt to design the space of one of the functional needs on the block. 

Virtual presentation on the assignment made by Bradshaw and his team.

Mentor teams review design ideas and teach about design representation through plan, section, and elevations using Legos.

When the camp was held in person, the students were challenged to design a proposal for a city block, then pass it to another team and that team was allowed to make changes, but only after consulting the original design team. This challenge built communication skills and helped the students better understand their own design decisions and the decisions of others.  

Students partner and collaborate to design a city block.

After they have each completed one round of design iteration, the board is passed to the next team and discussions begin about design changes desired by the next team. Students explain their design intentions to the next team upon which they will build and add their own ideas.

 

Students present their ideas to their mentors.

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To better understand the impact that this camp is having on not only the students but the mentors as well, we asked for a few participants to share their experiences. 

Keren Zempoalteca, High School Senior and First-Year Camp Attendee:

During the week, I learned so much stuff and details I didn’t even know architects have to take into consideration when starting a project, like, the community and their needs, and that amazed me. When doing the projects, I was surprised that they made such an effort to send bags with some materials we would be needing during the week. All the leaders were really involved with every student’s ideas and gave incredible feedback. Even though it was my first and last year in the camp, I feel thankful I experienced this, as it clarified my desire to continue pursuing this major. 

Josephine (Josie) Messina, High School Sophomore and 2nd Year Camp Attendee: 

The 2020 NOMA Louisiana Project Pipeline Camp was a very exciting program that I went to this summer. I had gone to it last summer when it was in person and made many connections with the mentors there helping us. It was a very smooth transition to the virtual format and was planned out very well. The activities that we got to do helped me learn about my community and the way architecture can help improve it. We focused on the need of the people living there and how that shapes where things are and how they function. 

Kiwana T. McClung, First Year Camp Mentor: 

As an Associate Professor and the advisor to the UL Chapter of NOMAS, I mentor several current design students. However, my lack of proximity to New Orleans made it hard for me to participate in past Project Pipeline camps. The camp being virtual this year made it easier for all, giving me a chance to connect with potential design students, while witnessing first-hand the amazing fount of talent we have in the state of Louisiana. The NOMA Louisiana cohort, as well as the campers, made it a profound experience and I am looking forward to participating again next year.

Teva Kaplan, Camp Mentor 2017-2020:

This was my third year as a mentor for Project Pipeline. One of my favorite moments each year is helping the kids explore their own neighborhood through the lens of equitable architecture. It’s so powerful to see them shift from thinking about the material as a material to realizing what that space could actually mean for their neighborhood if their design existed. It usually happens between days two and three. I think that’s the moment when kids realize their own agency and ability to create positive change in places they love. Project Pipeline gives a quick and tactile introduction to foundational architecture skills in a creative and accessible way.

It is clear that this program has fostered a space for creativity, voice, and social justice in the heart of New Orleans. To learn more about this program or find a Project Pipeline program near you, visit their website at http://nomalaprojectpipeline.org/. 

Each year, Study Architecture curates a full list of summer programs (virtual and in-person) from across the country and publishes it here. Check back in the spring of 2021 to see the full list. If you are curious, check out the 2019 and 2020 list. 

MSU Hosts Design Summer Camp in Downtown Jackson

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(via Mississippi State University Newsroom)

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design is hosting a design camp for students from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi.

Taking place through Friday [June 24], the five-day summer experience in Jackson is helping students in the Greater Jackson community develop their interests in architecture, art, community development, design, engineering, planning, social justice and related professional fields.

Students are gaining knowledge of design tools and media through individual and group workshops focused on design, sketching, photography, graphic design, model building, sculpture and construction, among other skills. Collaboration, leadership and communication skills also are being developed, which will help students increase their self-confidence in these areas, leaders said.

Faculty of MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design—as well as those from the university’s College of Business—are leading students in collaborative and creative activities focused on design education. MSU alumni are leading discussions on design-related career opportunities and providing information about their educational and professional experiences.

CAAD Associate Dean and Professor Greg Hall said the camp is designed to help expose students to the wide variety and scope of educational and career opportunities in design fields ranging from architecture to graphic design and interior design to fashion, as well as related fields such as engineering and construction.

“One of our primary goals is to help students form educational and professional goals that they can continue to develop during their high school education, regardless of their eventual career choice,” Hall said.

In addition to being funded in part by a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson, this year’s camp is supported by MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design, its School of Architecture and Department of Art, the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center and Office of the Registrar.

Lori Neuenfeldt, MSU art instructor and gallery director, and architect Emily Roush-Elliott of the university’s Carl Small Town Center, are serving as camp co-directors.

For additional camp information, contact Hall at 662-325-2509 or ghall@caad.msstate.edu.

Learn more about MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design at www.caad.msstate.edu, facebook.com/CAADatMSU, twitter.com/CAADatMSU and http://tinyurl.com/CAADatMSUYouTube.

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Check out Mississippi State University’s Architecture Program Profile Page on StudyArchitecture.com!

Image: A design camp led by faculty of Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design is helping students in the Greater Jackson community explore their interests in architecture, art, community development, design, engineering, planning, social justice and related professional fields. (Photo by Lori Neuenfeldt)