Turin, Italy
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English, Italian
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 161 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Key Summary
Introduction
Architecture designs and directs the complex transformations that affect cities and territories. It is the place where multiple knowledge and skills that operate in the built environment meet.
The Master's Degree course in architecture Construction City is aimed at a complete understating of the complex cultural, environmental, technical, and procedural issues that underlie contemporary projects.
You will be able to join innovative learning activities and enrich your knowledge with international exchanges and projects. You will also be able to complete your training with an internship before or after graduating.
As a future architect, you will be provided with a top-level cultural preparation, both in humanities and technical-scientific subjects. You will be capable of developing architectural solutions that harmoniously fit into the environment because they respect the natural and urban landscape, and coordinate activities and processes of territorial transformation, ensuring the quality of the outcomes.
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Admissions
Curriculum
Path
Year 1
- Architecture and built environment or
- Architecture and structural forms or
- Architecture, environment, and built space or
- Architecture and structural forms
- Low-impact technology or
- Off-site architectural project or
- Structures project or
- Structural Design
- Introductory seminars (view Full curriculum )
- Architecture and Urban Economics or
- Architecture and Urban Space or
- Architecture and Urban Space or
- Architecture and Urban Economics
- Economic evaluation of projects or
- Urbanism or
- Urban planning or
- Economic evaluation of projects
- Administrative law for architecture or
- Administrative law for architectural design
- Energy-conscious design of post-carbon buildings or
- Light and sound projects in buildings or
- Energy project of buildings
Year 2
- Architecture and computational design or
- Architecture and restoration or
- Architecture and computational design or
- Architecture and Restoration
- Building information modeling or
- Parametric digital modeling or
- Restoration or
- Architectural and Urban history or
- History of architecture and the city A or
- History of architecture and the city B
- Choice of teaching in related or integrative disciplines (view Full curriculum )
- Free credits (view Full curriculum )
- Thesis seminars offered by other courses of study (view Full curriculum ) or
- Thesis seminars offered by the Course of Study (view Full curriculum ) or
- Degree thesis or
- Degree thesis with Thesis Seminar
Course in English
Year 1
- Architecture and built environment or
- Architecture and structural forms
- Low-impact technology or
- Structural Design
- Healthy and Connected Built Environment or
- Theory and History of Architecture
- Introductory Seminars from Table B (view Full curriculum )
- Administrative law for architecture
- Architecture and Urban Economics or
- Architecture and urban space
- Energy-conscious design of post-carbon building
- Economic evaluation of projects or
- Urbanism
Year 2
- Architectural and Urban History
- Architecture and computational design or
- Architecture and Restoration
- Building information modeling or
- Restoration
- History of Urban Design or
- Urban Studies
- Free ECTS credits (view Full curriculum )
- Degree thesis or
- Seminars on Project Work from others MSc (view Full curriculum ) or
- Seminars on Project Work recommended by the MSc or
- Thesis and Seminar
Program Outcome
What will you learn?
The Master’s degree program is organized into 4 thematic semesters. Each semester addresses a specific topic:
The first semester, "Contemporary Challenges", deals with emerging themes such as the environment, culture, and society, which involve architecture and design in a broad sense.
The second semester, "Project and City", focuses on urbanization and urban regeneration, both locally, internationally, and globally, based on the different scales and durations of these phenomena.
The third semester, "Project and Innovation", offers a project experience focused on the project-construction relationship. It provides interdisciplinary skills and methods for historiographic research and research in the field of human sciences.
The fourth semester, "In-depth studies", is dedicated to the final training experience that will guide you through the preparation of your Master’s thesis.
Career Opportunities
You will have plenty of career opportunities. After graduation, you will be able to work as a freelance architect, individually or within a team of professionals.
You will be able to hold high-level positions in institutions and public and private bodies operating in the fields of construction and transformation of the territory, recovery, and reuse of the built environment, and landscape design.
Given the international approach of the Master's degree program, you will gain a solid academic background that is particularly suitable for the preliminary, final, and executive design of historic buildings or urban projects.
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Program delivery
How will you learn it?
The Master’s degree program is taught both in Italian (with the possibility to take some English-taught courses) and in English.
Politecnico promotes international mobility and allows you to study abroad at a European or extra-European university in the framework of Erasmus agreements for exchange programs and double degrees.
In addition to the various disciplines, you will attend interdisciplinary ateliers and seminars where you will do simulations of real cases and experience the same kind of dialogue that increasingly characterizes the world of work and innovation.
You will be able to further specialize and tailor your study plan to your needs and interests by participating in specific programs, such as the Interdisciplinary Challenges and the initiatives of the Alta Scuola Politecnica, in which you will learn how to work in a team and by objectives, in collaboration with partners from the business world and other institutions.
You will be able to put into practice the knowledge acquired during the program with a curricular and/or post-graduate internship in Italy or abroad. This experience will guide you toward future career opportunities.
You will be part of an international community that will help you grow from a cultural and professional point of view, for example by attending lectures and conferences held by Visiting Professors from the most prestigious international universities.
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