Masterutbildning i arkitektur Jämför

The world is rapidly changing, thus offering new challenges for architecture. Environmental issues, new urban trade patterns, segregation, housing shortage and other societal matters affect why and how we build.

Lund University, located in the dynamic CopenhagenMalmö region, is well known for its competence and knowledge, and offers superb resources for studying these matters in a broader context. The programme combines architectonic and theoretical design methods, and best practice with advanced research, thus encouraging critical thoughts in the students to become highly skilled professionals who are competitive at an international level.

Teaching contains both theoretical and hands-on projects aiming to find future-focused solutions to real-world issues. The programme features international collaboration as well as locally active professionals. The process of working/learning consists of a mixture of workshops, critiques, tutorials with invited guests both international and local – and in-depth design projects to be exhibited to a public audience.

The objectives of the Masters programme in Architecture are:

to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to design complex and articulated architecture where a sensitive integration of materiality, structure and spatial order comes together to create meaningful spaces for collective and individual life.

to train students in architectural design as a method for thinking and understanding, where architecture can act as a critical driving force, addressing social, economic, ecological and cultural perspectives.

Programme structure

The Masters programme in Architecture, Advanced Architectural Design (AAD), leads to a Master of Science in Architecture.

During the first two semesters, the students are enrolled as a group in the common Advanced Architectural Design cluster, composed by a design studio course (15 ECT) linked to an aligned theory course (7.5 ECTS) as well as an additional mandatory (first semester) or elective mandatory course (7.5 ECTS) (second semester). For the first semester, the mandatory course has been stipulated to Materials and Details I.

The third semester offers the student the opportunity to choose between five different clusters; a design studio course (15 ECTS) aligned with the corresponding theory course (7.5 ECTS). The clusters refers to (i) Dwelling and Space, (ii) Urban Shelter, (iii) Cultural Heritage Building, (iv) Urban Dynamics or (v) Spatial Experiments I; simultaneously with an elective mandatory course (7.5 ECTS.) The programme furthermore includes two preparatory research courses as elective mandatory courses (7,5) of which at least one should be studied during either the second or the third semester; Architecture as Temporal Landscapes and Performing Theories. The fourth semester is devoted to the degree project in dialogue with one examiner and one tutor within the School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering. The degree project corresponds to 30 ECTS.

Study trips, lectures, surveys, workshops, studies on site, inventories, seminars etc. are integrated pedagogical tool in the programme. The trips are optional, and all students participate at their own expense. Students who cannot participate will be given alternative assignments. Study trips and destinations may vary from year to year; previous destinations have included Great Britain, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Study trips may be subject to cancellation/alteration due to unforeseeable circumstances, such as natural disasters, pandemics and/or visa denial.