HINES COLLEGE | Environmental Design

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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN:
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM

Environmental Design is a new type of design education that prepares creative, adaptable thinkers to collaborate across disciplines and respond to the complex challenges of a changing world. 

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DESIGN ACROSS SCALES

SMALL

Picture of a lamp

Objects + Materials

Human-centered form, function, materials, and fabrication.

MEDIUM

Medium example of architecture

Interiors + Experience

Space, atmosphere, lighting, adaption, and inhabitation. 

LARGE

Large example

Buildings + Systems

Structure, technology, site, and environmental performance. 

EXTRA-LARGE

Extra large example

Cities + Ecology

Infrastructure, communities, climate, water, and habitat. 


 

ONE FOUNDATION MANY PATHWAYS

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTONS
Experience design • interiors • fabrication
research • sustainability • community design
GRADUATE STUDY
M. Arch • architectural studies • industrial design
sustainable and urban systems

"I came into the program already expecting to learn how designs at different scales would fit into one another, but it also taught me to look beyond the design, or scale itself, and consider culture, community, environment, materiality, and user experience as equally important, overlapping parts of the design process."

Kate Eastes

EDSA (Environmental Design Student Association) Co-Chair