SVA MA Design Research

SVA MA Design Research, Writing & Criticism1 is a one-year graduate program2
devoted to the study of design, its contexts & consequences.
Our graduates have gone on to pursue research-related careers in publishing, education, museums, institutes, design practice, entrepreneurship, & more.3

  1. Formerly known as D-Crit
  2. About the program
  3. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. All successful candidates awarded a significant scholarship!
SVA MA Design Research

136 W 21st St, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10011

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designresearch@sva.edu

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@dcrit

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(212) 592-2228

Daniel D’Oca – SVA MA Design Research

Daniel D’Oca

Principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner, educator, and curator who specializes in the politics of the contemporary built environment in America. He is design critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Design School, assistant professor of Art History, Theory & Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners, an architecture, planning, and research firm in New York City that has won many awards for its innovative projects, including the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices and Young Architects Awards, and the New Practices Award from the AIA New York Chapter. His book, The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion, was published by Actar in 2012.

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