The Masters of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) degree program is a one-year, full-time, immersive learning environment for the technical training, intellectual advancement, and practical formation of the most accomplished and prepared professional for the real estate industry. The MSRED program is uniquely resourced to provide the various theoretical explorations and technical skills needed for the real estate sector, in addition to effective training in the synthesis of decision-making through development projects and pertinent industry case studies.

The conceptual construct of this amalgamated learning is immediately referenced to the fundamental theories of urban planning and architectural design at GSAPP. Instructors who practice at the top levels of their respective professions in New York City provide the necessary technical knowledge from various disciplines—such as finance, market analysis, construction methods, law, data science, and project management—to perform in the industry. The application of the theory and skills to resolving various real estate challenges and issues are given rich, complex, and exciting examples in New York that also connect and have implications globally.

Furthermore, with the growing entrepreneurial and technologically advanced environment of Columbia University, the program includes training and proficiency in real estate databases and the digital tools of analysis, with the opportunity to explore emerging applications being investigated in the Center for Urban Real Estate, the affiliated research laboratory. It is anticipated that within this rich, innovative environment, the program’s curriculum development will continue to produce further synthesized forms of teaching and research to produce the most effective, intellectually progressive, and multi-faceted real estate professional.

This Joint Studio is grounded on the premise that a multidisciplinary approach to development will yield more inclusive and more imaginative cities. Developing joint concepts that are fundamental to both Real Estate Development and Architecture introduces new ways of architectural thinking and making—which draw connections between environment, form, performance, policy and politics—both for human and non-human participants. Participants are public, private or anything in between. It is inevitable that the process of architecture creates real estate assets. But it is just as inevitable to take a fluid role as a designer and developer. It’s never just, it’s always and. The future developer ߎ architect will not be restricted to one profession or the other, but will be NON-BINARY. Similarly, the developer will take on a non-binary critical posture, beyond industry biases and classical constructs.

East Flatbush is at the nexus of forces shaping New York City. The neighborhood has become the site of rampant new infill housing, the product of rising land values and a “loose-fitting” zoning code that allows for six-story buildings to be constructed where there are Victorian townhomes. Many of these townhomes have belonged to Black homeowners living in the area for years. Only now, as the market dynamics have changed, they are increasingly being approached by developers who will buy the homes at low prices and tear them down. On the whole, New York City has seen a steep decline in Black homeownership over the last 20 years, even outpacing the decline in the city’s overall Black population during this time. Overgrown / undergrowth is an interdisciplinary studio/clinic that examined site-specific design and neighborhood-wide policy for larger-scale development adjacent to the new IBX train line adjacent to the existing lower-scale neighborhood that requires protection from gentrification and rapid re-development. The site and wider area were investigated as prototypes for other neighborhoods with new transit nodes.