Architecture - Master's Programme

The Master's Programme in Architecture combines architectonic and theoretical design methods, and best practice with advanced research, thus encouraging critical thoughts and the students to become highly skilled professionals competitive at an international level.
Teaching contains both theoretical and hands-on projects aiming to find future-focused solutions to real-world issues and features international collaboration as well as locally active professionals. The process of working/learning consists of a mixture of workshops, critiques, tutorials with invited guests and in-depth design projects to be exhibited to a public audience.

The objectives of the Master’s programme in Architecture are

• to provide students with knowledge and skills required to design complex and articulated architecture where a sensitive integration of materiality, structure and spatial order comes together to create meaningful spaces for collective and individual life.
• to train students in architectural design as a method for thinking and understanding, where architecture can act as a critical driving force, addressing social, economic, ecological, and cultural perspectives.

Programme modules/courses

Semester 1 - Advanced Architectural Design I (15 credits), Advanced Architectural Design I Theory (7.5), Architecture in Material and Detail (7.5)
Semester 2 - Advanced Architectural Design II (15) and Integrated Design: Architectural Design – Structural Design (7.5). In addition, one mandatory-elective: Architecture as Temporal Landscape (7.5), Climate Smart Architecture and Urban Design (7.5) or Architecture in Material and Detail II (7.5)
Semester 3 - Students choose one elective track:

Track 1 – Dwelling and Space (15) + Dwelling and Space, theory (7.5)
Track 2 – Urban Shelter (15) + Urban Shelter, theory (7.5)
Track 3 – Cultural Heritage Buildings (15) + Cultural Heritage Buildings, theory (7.5)
Track 4 – Sustainable Urban Dynamics (15) + Urban Dynamics theory (7.5)
Track 5 – Spatial Experiments (15) + Spatial Experiments, theory (7.5)
In addition, one elective: Urban Process (7.5), Light, Colour and Space (7.5) or Performing Theories (7.5)

It is mandatory to study either Architecture as Temporal Landscape in semester 2 or Performing Theories in semester 3

Semester 4 - Degree project in Architecture (30)

Studies on site are combined with optional study trips where students participate at own expense, or alternative assignments for those who cannot participate. The School of Architecture strives to primarily use sustainable means of transport. Past destinations include Great Britain, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Study trips may be subject to cancellation/alteration due to unforeseeable circumstances as force majeure or visa denial.

More information on each course at the Faculty of Engineering website 

Career prospects

After graduating from the programme, you will have the required skills to practice as an architect on a global market. You will be up to date in terms of theory, practice and tools at an advanced level. Your competence will enable you to engage professionally both on a private and public level. During your studies, you will have the opportunity to meet practitioners from the local and regional scene, both to present your own work in reviews and exhibitions and to get to know their work and culture through lectures and study visits. Our alumni often go on to jobs and internships both in the region, mainly Copenhagen, Malmö and Stockholm, and internationally.