The Final Project course sequence enables fifth-year BArch and third-year MArch students to develop a semi-independent design research project over the course of two consecutive semesters. Led by individual design critics, each studio section in Final Project provides a specific area of design research through which the students develop their work. In the fall semester of Final Project students concentrate principally on topic and material / formal research, site analysis, and schematic design. In the spring semester, the focus shifts to design development, with the expectation that the fall semesterÕs research and schematic design work will be utilized as a platform for the production of highly resolved architectural and/or urban proposals.