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I am currently a Masters' of Landscape Architecture candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Brown's architecture concentration allowed me to explore ideas about representation, design, and spatial analysis that prepped me for my time in grad school. Landscape architecture for me imbues historical, theoretical, ecological, and geologic thinking to devise new potential futures. Brown's liberal arts architecture context allowed me to gain a diverse and rigorous foundation in many of those subjects that has set me up well for my early career.
Matthew Lioe
A.B Architecture & Urban Studies, 2024
After working full time at an architecture practice in Boston, I returned to my home state of New Jersey to obtain a Master's of Architecture degree at Princeton University.
My time at Brown was shaped by the incredible time in the Architecture concentration, which has prepared me well for the Master. The program was flexible enough to allow for the study of other topics that can inform architectural design while having enough studios to give a good technical foundation.
Lucia Tian
A.B. Architecture & Behavioral Decision Sciences, 2022
What's special about Brown's architecture concentration is that it grounds a rigorous studio-based education within the liberal arts. My immersion in the liberal arts informed my development as a designer—with my art history and urban studies courses training me to observe the built environment with a critical eye, and my visual arts and engineering courses helping me to broaden my technical skill set. My peers in the concentration were likewise versed in areas of study outside of architecture, whether that be music or neuroscience or comparative literature; the diverse group of thinkers that Brown’s architecture program brought together made every group crit and late-night studio session all the more enriching. Since graduating, I’ve worked as a freelance designer for several independent architects. I’d like to think that my work reflects the depth and uniqueness of my architecture education at Brown.
Samuel Steward
A.B. Architecture, 2023
I am a Master of Architecture candidate at Columbia GSAPP (Class of 2027) and a double-major graduate from Brown University in Architecture and Slavic Studies. I have interned at Gallagher Design, contributing to the redesign of the National Coast Guard Museum, and at Circular in Brooklyn, where I developed modular furniture designs, conducted circular material research, and created visual documentation. My drawings were published in The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Art and Art History (Fall 2023). I received the Best Brown Architecture Honors Project Award (2024) and the Minnie Helen Hicks Fellowship (2022). I'm also a member of AIAS, The Architectural League of New York, and Dobro Slovo Honor Society.
Jasmin Lin
A.B. Architecture & Slavic Studies, 2024
Since graduation, I’ve worked for a small New York City architecture firm focusing on residential projects. I’ve had a high level of creative independence, with significant responsibility for design, client interaction, project management, and construction sets. Because it was essentially a two-person practice, I worked closely with my principal, whose trust and mentorship allowed me to take initiative and build strong relationships with clients. This fall, I left my position to pursue my Master of Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP, where I continue to expand on the intellectual and creative foundations that began at Brown.
Brown architecture taught me that built form is determined not only by aesthetics, but also by societal and material considerations. The architecture concentration’s interdisciplinary structure provided a solid foundation in these fundamentals while leaving room for exploration. Wonderful professors encouraged both rigor and curiosity, helping me connect conceptual ideas to material outcomes. Brown’s program gave me everything I needed to succeed and I entered the field confident, capable, and well prepared to take the next step in my education and career.
Alexa Dannis,
A.B. Architecture, 2021
My time pursuing a BA in Architecture at Brown has been foundational to my early career path and continuing education. The doors the concentration opened to coursework at RISD in both Architecture and Interior Architecture departments were critical in the early development of my technical and conceptual design skills.
Studying a pre-professional architecture degree at a place like Brown is a truly valuable opportunity – the proximity to RISD and the open curriculum provide what is in my opinion one of the best frameworks for a young architect’s education. The investment in liberal arts education within the open curriculum allows for students to craft their own path and mold their conception of architectural practice and theory.
After graduating Brown, I returned to my native Salt Lake City, where I held multiple design associate roles, and was promoted twice very quickly to the role of Designer III working on multifamily apartment projects. The tenacity and self-starter mindset that Brown instilled in me has made my educational and professional journey exponentially more successful. I am currently in a dual masters’ program at Columbia GSAPP in architecture and real estate.
Louis Fisher
A.B. Architecture, 2021
I received a dual-degree in Architecture and Visual Arts at Brown University, where the concentration’s interdisciplinary structure shaped the foundation of my current work. During my undergraduate studies, I interned at Professor Julian von der Schulenburg’s office in New York, where I experienced the collaborative and conceptual rigor of architectural practice. I was also selected to participate in the Architectural Association Visiting School in Şirince, Turkey, where I worked closely with international peers on site-specific design strategies.
The open curriculum at Brown is a special opportunity. It created room to engage engineering, philosophy, and art history alongside design, allowing me to develop as a critically engaged designer. A defining aspect of the Architecture program is the balance it offers. The close-knit and intellectually rigorous studio environment fostered mentorship and space for conceptual experimentation, nurturing a sense of shared growth. In parallel, the proximity to RISD provided access to technical and representational coursework. This combination of support and access is rare in architectural education, making the design thinking perspective and technical acumen I gained at Brown unmatched.
After graduating, I entered Columbia University GSAPP, where I am now pursuing the Master of Architecture and Master of Science in Real Estate Development degrees, carrying forward the values and confidence cultivated at Brown.
Selin Kesaf
A.B. Architecture & Visual Arts, 2024
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