Miami's position between North and South, specifically its close proximity to the Caribbean and Latin America, stimulate the School's hemispheric focus and identity. Our tropical location allows students to understand the living and environmental issues that impact billions of people around the wrold from the Caribbean Sea to India and China. Building on our location, the School participates in international networks that enable students to develop an understanding of architecture and culture in an increasingly globalized world.

Miami is one of the world's most fascinating contemporary laboratories of architecture and urbanism. Our location facilitates the study of urbanization and regional environmental transformation, infrastructure development, sea level rise, and the transformative power of technology and public participation. The School makes full use of its context and collaborates with local governments, authorities and non-for-profits to design and build a better world.

The University of Miami is in a growing metropolitan region with a high employment rate, and many opportunities to work. Miami and its region are the home base of significant architects and urbanists, and the city comprises a cgrowing body of important buildings by Pritzker Prize recipients. The vital cultural life of the city and the international business ambience of our region make Miami an attractive place to live and study. In the midst of all this, the intimate and park-like tropical atmosphere of UM campus and School of Architecture offer a productive sanctuary.

The Master of Architecture curriculum reflects the multiplicity of the discipline: theory and practice, innovation and tradition, building design and urban design. The School is committed to sustainable urbanism and city, and to the value of tradition and modernity as reciprocal in the design of buildings and the design of the city and its neighborhoods. Our diverse faculty, many leaders in the profession, represent the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.