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Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) Master's degree in Architecture
Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)

Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)

Master's degree in Architecture

Barcelona, Spain

Master degree

Sep 2024

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About: The Master's degree in Architecture focuses on advanced design principles and practical skills. It covers areas such as sustainable design, urban planning, and architecture history, providing a well-rounded education for aspiring architects. The course typically spans two years of intensive study, combining lectures, workshops, and hands-on projects to cultivate a robust architectural skill set.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates may pursue careers as licensed architects, urban planners, or landscape architects. Other potential paths include roles in design consulting, project management, or academia. Opportunities also exist in government agencies, non-profits, and private firms that focus on environmental design and policy.

MArqEtsaB is the yearlong Architecture Master degree that complements the degree formation and that is essential to practice the profession. There are three types of specialization: Theory and project, Urban Design, and Technology. Each one of these specializations means a theme intensification in the architecture field while continuing to attend to the necessary comprehensive reading of the discipline.

This Master’s degree is designed to complete the high-quality subjects done during the Architecture degree with the own and enough ripeness valid to exercise the profession, that demands a high level of integrity and innovation abilities, emphasizing in the project elaboration, the technology, and the urban design.

The educational model of both degrees, the architecture degree (GArqEtsaB) and the Master's degree (MArqEtsaB) gather a complete Architecture academic program and helps the student in the regulated architectural profession. It's focused on the interdisciplinarity of the different subjects, reinforcing its transversal knowledge. Most of the subjects have a format with workshop groups, where cooperative activities are key to the development of suitable critical reasoning for each subject. Aspects such as territorial ties, sustainability, or social impact, amongst others, are issues that are necessary to promote and influence the role of the architect in our society, in the search for a more human environment and for the environment, a better quality of life.

In order to be admitted to this master's degree, which entitles to pursue the profession of Architect, it is necessary to have previously passed the Degree in Architecture Studies (GArqEtsaB) or equivalent studies.