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

Geoff Manaugh – SVA MA Design Research

Geoff Manaugh

Author, BLDGBLG; former director, Studio-X NYC at Columbia University

Geoff Manaugh is a freelance writer and curator, and the former director of Studio-X NYC at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His work has appeared in The New York Times, New Scientist, Popular Science, Domus, newyorker.com, and many other publications, and he has curated exhibitions for Venice Biennale of Architecture, Nevada Museum of Art, and the Storefront for Art & Architecture, among others. Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG, a long-running online catalog of spatial ideas and innovations at various scales and genres, from archaeology to urban planning, science fiction to geology. The BLDGBLOG Book (2009), based on the blog, was selected by Amazon.com as one of their “Top 100 Books” of 2009.

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