Design School Offers Three New Master's Degrees in Urban Studies

Advanced courses leading to one of three new master's degrees in Urban Design will be offered in the Graduate School of Design starting a year from this fall. The courses will lead to the conferring of a Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design, or Master of City Planning in Urban Design, depending on the profession in which the candidate already holds his degree.

The course will be open to selected candidates who have demonstrated capacity in design as applied to improvement of the urban environment and who hold one of the professional degrees of the Graduate School of Design in architecture, landscape architecture, or city planning, or the equivalent. Under the new program, candidates must complete a minimum of one year's study in residence at Harvard.

"Physical planning in our cities calls upon the coordinated skills of the architect, the landscape artist, and the city planner," said Dean Jose Luis Sert. He added, "Since the Graduate School of Design is of limited enrollment, with the three professional departments under the same faculty, it is in an unusually sound position to provide this type of coordinated training."

The program is under the general direction of Dean Sert.