Rome, Italy
DEGREE TYPE
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English, Italian
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
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Introduction
The Master's program in Architecture-Urban Regeneration aims to provide a professional solution to the need for a new profile of fully-fledged architect, in cultural and professional terms and not merely formal, within the European context; a fast-shaping context in which the issues of urban regeneration play a role of particular relevance, also highlighted by issues identified in the European and international urban agenda, as well as, more recently, in the national urban agenda being defined. An architect trained to investigate, configure, and support urban regeneration processes, dedicated to the project as research and as a process of continuous experimentation; capable of providing adequate responses to the regeneration processes of the contemporary city at all scales and in an integrated way, combining complexity to restore perspectives of social equity, well- being and inclusion, of ecological quality, of historical-environmental sustainability, effectiveness, and efficiency in the use of resources. A professional figure with a design, technical, and technological competence capable of managing the emergency nature of phenomena and in territories, such as those of Italian cities, strongly characterized in terms of stratification and fragility of the various components, and yet, at the time itself, responding to the lines of action and strategic guidelines of the context and the European Urban Agenda.
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Curriculum
The Master's Degree has a single curriculum, and the formative activities are arranged in characterizing and related or integrative activities.
Characterizing activities are concerned with the disciplinary areas of Urban and Land Planning, Technology for Architecture and Building Construction, Architecture and Urban Design, Architecture Analysis and Structural Planning, History of Architecture, Valuation for Architecture and Urban Design, Architecture and Environment Representation, Theories and Techniques for Conservation, Technical-Physics and Plant Design and Installation Disciplines for Architecture, Economic, Social, Law Disciplines for Architecture.
Related or integrative activities aim at providing further practical knowledge in the fields of Architecture Technology ICAR/12, Industrial Design ICAR/13, Drawing ICAR/17, Urban Techniques and Planning ICAR/20, Urban Design ICAR/21, Environmental and Applied Botanics BIO/03 and Ecology BIO/07, Geotechnics ICAR/07, applied Economy SECS‐P/06, Business Administration SECSP/07, Sociology of Environment and Land SPS/10.
Students can customize their education and training through elective units and the final exam.
The program revolves around the experience of the project, understood as an experimental dimension in its theoretical and operative aspects. It is articulated in Single-Subject Studios, Integrated Studios, and Single-Subject Units.
The development of design skills is achieved within the Studios, experimental learning structures, of practical and design-oriented nature. These reproduce the complexity of urban regeneration processes and train students in the perspective of interdisciplinary work.
First-year
First semester
- Urban planning and land governance studio
- Structural engineering for urban regeneration
- History, investigation, and research methods for the city
Second semester
- Environmental technological design studio
- Design and representation studio
Second year
First semester
- Architectural design studio for urban regeneration
- Economic valuation methods for urban regeneration
- Conservation design studio for urban regeneration
Second semester
- Urban Design Studio for regeneration
- Environmental technological design studio for regeneration and sustainability
- Internship - workshop - computer skills
- Final test
Program Outcome
The Master's Degree will be awarded to students who have developed high abilities of autonomous learning, which allows them to update and improve regularly their knowledge and competencies, identify autonomous study paths, also about access to postgraduate and high-formation courses (Masters, PhDs, or Specialization Schools) of self-formation and self-upgrade. The acquisition of these skills takes place, on the one hand, within the program, by attending classes characterized by a critical approach to knowledge, focused on the acquisition of autonomous disciplinary corpus; on the other hand, they find application in Studios, in the context of practical planning experiences. Finally, they are developed through specific contributions, that aim at broadening the students’ competencies, to access innovative methodologies, instruments, and applications.
In addition to this, the use of specialized Laboratories of the PDTA Department and Faculty (Photomedialab Laboratory, Factory Laboratory, Progetto Roma Laboratory Cesma, etc..) can further integrate studies, together with the use of the university's Departmental libraries, Faculty, and European libraries, exhibitions, etc.
The assessment of skills will mainly take place through exams, arranged to highlight the student’s ability to organize his/her acquired knowledge autonomously.
The chosen Academic System allows students to determine an orientation in their formation, convergent on a common interdisciplinary base in which theories, techniques, historical-critical disciplines, human sciences (economic and social), and natural sciences, all play a relevant role, in the exercise of architectural, urban, technological, conservation and landscape planning, in a variety of scales. The acquired skills will be constantly monitored, both during classes and studios and in the elaboration of the final exam.
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Career Opportunities
In compliance with the objectives of the class LM4 and the European Directive Architects 85/384/CEE, graduates can work in private practices, in private and public institutions, in the productive sector of building construction, both concerning new construction, restoration, to conservation, and concerning the new complexity of the intervention on the existing city, from the urban, technological, architectural point of views and that of conservation, within the broader strategies of urban regeneration.
Graduates can:
- Have high-responsibility roles primarily in public institutions operating in the fields of urban, environmental, land and city regeneration, environment, architectural, building, and cultural heritage
- Work in urban and architectural planning and design, architectural and urban heritage conservation and re-qualification, architectural and urban heritage sustainable planning and restoration, concerning the contemporary city and concerning all the activities included in the policies of land governance.
- Have coordinating roles and work as a Project leader within multidisciplinary planning teams, operating in the fields of strategies of urban regeneration, at an International and National level.
- Play responsible roles within decentralized State mission structures, for the coordination of processes of reconstruction and development of territories struck by calamities; within structures that monitor environmental systems and cultural heritage; within structures that activate funding for urban regeneration; within the investigation, study, and research committees working on the themes of outskirts, building, and cultural heritage requalification.
After receiving the award, graduates can take the licensing exam to practice the profession of architecture and register for the Order in the “senior” category.
The Sections that graduates can access are those established by the current Academic System: architecture, design, landscape, and conservation.
The title also allows graduates to access Higher-Education Courses (PhDs, II level Masters, Specialization Schools).
Graduates who have a sufficient number of ECTSs in appropriate groups of sectors can apply, in compliance with current legislation, to admission tests for secondary teaching training.