9 Architecture and Urban Design Degree Programs in Belgium

The world never stops urbanizing and globalizing. Want a role in shaping the city and the world of the future? Our Master's program in Urban Studies offers a unique European perspective on local and global issues concerning urbanity and urbanization.

This programme prepares you to address evolving urban challenges and lead innovations in sustainable urban mobility. It empowers students to become future urban leaders by embracing complexity and competence beyond the traditional urban planning and civil engineering disciplines.

Worldwide, increasing urbanisation poses many environmental challenges: use of resources, production of waste, quality of air and water, energy demand, effects of climate change, health problems, and so on. The complexity of these urban environmental problems is substantial. In order to tackle them, we need expertise from different disciplines, with a focus on sustainability and (eco)technological innovation.

The multicultural dimension of this English-taught master's degree prepares you extra for an international career as an architect or researcher. In this international programme, you can for example be part of international research projects. Just like in the Dutch master's programme, the programme is composed of design and theoretical courses. In this master's program, you also choose studios and optional course units from a varied cross-campus offering.

Worldwide, increasing urbanisation poses many environmental challenges: use of resources, production of waste, quality of air and water, energy demand, effects of climate change, health problems, and so on. The complexity of these urban environmental problems is substantial. In order to tackle them, we need expertise from different disciplines, with a focus on sustainability and (eco)technological innovation.

Cities and settlements are under extreme pressure. Social and environmental inequity is sharply on the rise. The Master of Urbanism, Landscape and Planning focuses on multifaceted and multi-scalar solutions to issues such as social exclusion, unequal distribution of resources and spatial contradictions, whilst reflecting the multiple and transcultural expressions of urbanism worldwide.

In an era of rapid change, space is an increasingly limited resource. The Master of Human Settlements addresses rapid urbanisation and contemporary urban transformations. Our intensive programme examines the multi-faceted challenges facing contemporary human settlements worldwide while helping you develop a critical and interpretative approach toward your own position within the field.

In the INNOCOM agile architecture masterclass, you will learn to build and document your architecture just enough. In addition, you will also learn how to develop and manage the architecture roadmap with integrated quality and security in an agile context.

The training is organized in a modular way and according to a competency-based approach. The student goes through the different teaching units which constitute the training according to the rhythm that suits him, until the integrated test in which he must demonstrate through a synthesis work the transversal mastery of the skills he has acquired.