163 Architecture and Urban Design MSc Degree Programs

The course content ranges from the development of the design skills and the technical and scientific understanding required to develop sustainable solutions for new and existing buildings, the analysis of historic buildings and past environment technologies, to a critical exploration of the historical and cultural context of sustainability and environmental design.

Our program highlights the social aspects of the global transition towards a more sustainable society. Sustainability challenges are interconnected with the communities that face them. As such, our students learn to adopt new methodological and interactive approaches to problem-solving in different contexts. This exchange does not only take place outside of the classroom, but also within our small-scale, international department. You learn to analyze, develop and negotiate innovative institutional designs and policy solutions to support and lead complex transformations in light of international sustainability and planning debates. The core of our focus on the human factor in society, sustainability and planning is using real-life cases and working with and engaging people in real-world living labs.

This two-year, full-time master's programme combines sustainable architectural design, technical expertise, critical thinking, and technological and material innovation. It addresses challenges including climate change, social segregation, sustainability, inclusion, and housing shortages through design studios, theoretical study, and practical work.

The Master Architecture, Building and Planning combines architecture, urban design, engineering, building physics, mobility and real estate. It prepares students for careers as architects, urban designers, structural engineers, planners and building-physics consultants.

This programme in MSc in Architecture trains students to apply their complex knowledge in the areas of architecture and urban planning, as well as in the multi-faceted field of environment formation in general (architectural design, town and country planning, preservation of built heritage, structural design, construction work, management and administration tasks, consulting with authorities, teaching, etc.)

Architecture for Society of Knowledge is a professional program focused on digital design and crucial aspects of architecture and urban planning. The duration of the program is 4 semesters.

The MSc Sustainable Urban Planning and Design focuses on the correlation between the built environment and social, economic and institutional forces. Graduates have the expertise to adapt planning and design practices to the environmental conditions and societal needs of the future.

Landscape Architecture is a discipline that focuses on intervention in the landscape through the activities of planning, design, and management. It also focuses on the science that underpins these activities and the implementation of proposals. It is united around the concept of landscape, which is defined in various ways but is generally understood to mean outdoor spaces, environments, and places and relationships between people and these spaces, environments, and places, both in terms of activities and perceptions. Landscape Architecture is concerned with landscapes of all types, both urban and rural, and at all scales from the smallest open space to the region.

The MSc Architecture offers a unique learning environment where the possibilities for students to tailor their degrees are remarkable. Apart from orientation courses, students freely choose studio courses from a wide range of themes that address current architectural topics.

This program aims at providing a multidisciplinary background for architects, with a special focus on environmental sustainability and landscape design. The concept of sustainability is associated with a high-quality transformation of the landscape, from the macro-scale of urban planning to the micro-scale of technical details, how the varied scales connect and interrelate with each other.

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.

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) programme in Architecture offers its students training in the profession of architecture based on a ‘polytechnic culture’, in which humanistic and artistic skills are inseparably and continually combined with scientific and technological skills within a technical university that is a leader in Europe and the world, capable of both enhancing its Milanese tradition and welcoming a growing plurality of cultural experiences, with the aim of designing the future with foresight.

Accredited by the NAAB, this program meets all professional degree requirements for licensure as a registered architect. This combination links a professional design degree (M.Arch.) with a specialized degree (M.S. in Architecture) in one of three concentrations.

This program combines the Urban Design examination of Charlotte’s social, economic, environmental and ethical design challenges with discourse on Critical Heritage approaches and practices of engaging with the past.  Faculty and students participating in the dual degree engage in a curriculum and research that seeks local solutions while engaging in global conversations and that emphasize hands-on engagement with communities. 

The Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech) programme offers MArch (16 months) and MSc (12 months) options, and is open to architecture and engineering graduates seeking knowledge and skills in architectural design science, who want to experiment with how these can be applied within new production paradigms.

Sustainable building design has never been more important for the future of our environment. Critically explore a wide range of approaches to building physics and design strategies that promote sustainability to develop the skills needed to address this significant global challenge.

The program in "Landscape Architecture - Land Landscape Heritage" integrates technical, natural and agronomical sciences, as well as historical, cultural and social studies. The program is based on design studios and lectures on current themes such as the design of soil and of public open spaces, of the urban and rural landscape, preservation of landscape heritage, regeneration of derelict areas, sustainable tourism and hydrogeological risk prevention.

The Master in History and Theory of Art and Architecture (MSTAA) includes both the study of the history of architecture and art history.