If Architecture interests you as possible career, The University of Texas at Austin's Summer Academy in Architecture can help inform your decision and prepare you for admission to a professional degree program. The Summer Academy in Architecture enables both young scholars and adults to answer the question: Should I pursue Architecture as a career goal or field of further professional study?

The Summer Academy is an intensive introductory course in architecture that assumes no prior study in the field, but rather a great familiarity with it through the experience of occupying places. Through a series of individual studio design projects, the Academy introduces students to many of the important aspects of architecture and encourages personal exploration. The identity of a place - what it feels like and what it means to us - arises from qualities that are both visual and non-visual. Under this premise, the Academy encourages design solutions that are grounded in an investigation of experience and perception.

The Summer Academy is geared toward people who have little-to-no background in architecture and who wish to test and refine their interests in the field. Applicants to the Summer Academy's Young Scholars Program must be between ages 15-17, while students in the Academy's Introduction to the Profession range from age 18 to older adulthood.