M.Arch Open House
Saturday, November 21, 2026 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
- In-Person event
- The Pit, Architecture Building, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
We encourage advance registration, but registration will remain possible up to and including the day of the event. All are welcome to attend!
Prospective Master of Architecture students are invited to spend a day at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism (ASAU) to discover our programs, degree specializations, research labs, and generous funding opportunities. You’ll meet faculty and current master’s students, explore our studios and facilities, and participate in an M.Arch application and portfolio workshop.
PROGRAM
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Welcome Address with ASAU Director, Dr. Anne Bordeleau
M.Arch Program + M.Arch with Collaborative Specializations in Climate Change and Accessibility Overview with Associate Director Graduate, Dr. Lisa Moffitt
Travel Studio Presentations by current M.Arch thesis students
Q&A with faculty and current students
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
M.Arch Application and Portfolio Workshop with Supervisor of Graduate Studies, Dr. Inderbir Singh Riar
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch with faculty and current students
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Student-led Building Tours: explore studios, research labs, and fabrication facilities. (Tours run every half hour until 2:00 p.m.)
The Master of Architecture program at Carleton University is a professionally accredited program that prepares future architects to positively shape the built environment in a rapidly changing world.
Our curriculum integrates design studies, history, theory, and technology courses, and prioritizes land-based learning, climate resilience, and building adaptation.
The studio sequence introduces building design across scales within local urban and peri-urban contexts, culminating in a comprehensive building studio.
Travel studios offer exciting opportunities to learn from cultures in contexts abroad. Past destinations have included Peru, Ghana, and Colombia, among other countries. In the final year of the program, students work closely with faculty supervisors on a two-semester design research thesis.
Our Master of Architecture program is a generously funded, three-year, accredited program available to qualifying students with any four-year undergraduate degree. Applicants with a four-year pre-professional undergraduate degree in architecture are eligible for advanced placement into the second year of the program.
Questions? Please contact architecturegrad@cunet.carleton.ca