The PhD in Built Environment is a College-wide, interdisciplinary degree program housed within the College of Built Environments. The PhD program provides students a common core of substantial, integrated knowledge concerning the multi-faceted built environment and then offers areas of specialization in three discrete fields of knowledge and practice: Sustainable Systems and Prototypes (across a range of scales, from building elements and assemblages, to buildings, site, and neighborhood context, city, and region); Computational Design and Research (covering the spectrum of design, planning, and construction processes, practices, and pedagogy); History, Theory, and Representation studies (focusing on issues of regional-global modernity).