Focus areas
You will gain in-depth specialist knowledge in conceptual and constructional design in the two focus areas of ‘Architecture & Wood’ and ‘Architecture & Area. You will gain an insight into applied research and innovative practice, opening up your prospects.
What you will gain from your degree
As an architect with a master’s degree, you will acquire the professional tools required for the integral implementation of complex architectural and planning tasks – from strategic planning to competitive tender projects through to actual development. You are willing to work as a project manager in Switzerland or abroad, to engage in networking activities and to assume responsibility in independent projects.
You will get plenty of opportunity and time to develop your own visions during the programme. You choose your own master’s thesis topic, profiling yourself as an architect.
Programme overview
The specialisations
Choose your preferred focus area and design your studies according to your interests.
Regenerative architecture & wood
Regenerative construction methods improve the indoor and urban climate and contribute to climate-friendly cities and settlements.
The Regenerative architecture & wood focus area will provide you extensive expertise in timber building culture and wood as a material. You will combine wood with other resource-conserving, bio-based building materials such as clay, natural fibres and natural stone to generate sustainable building concepts while adopting a holistic approach of ecosystems, energy and material cycles. You will learn to improve traditional Baukultur and combine it with modern planning and production methods with the aim of making resource-conserving construction sustainable and competitive.
Cooperative architecture of the open city
The Cooperative architecture of the open city focus area will provide you the skills to grasp the complex social, economic, and ecological correlations pertaining to neighborhood and urban development. You will learn how to operate successfully in today’s dynamic urban and settlement development using cooperative and interdisciplinary practices. In close, creative collaboration with local actors, the population, public authorities and experts from various disciplines, you will design meaningful and sustainable development processes that improve the quality of our built environment in the long term.
Admission requirements
Bachelor’s degree in architecture and application file with portfolio
