Architecture - Architecture, Landscape architecture and Interior Architecture, Architect, Master of Science

Architecture is a field at the intersection of technology and art with strong social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications. The Major in Architecture aims at:

• deepening the students’ technical, scientific and artistic thinking as foundation for building a socially responsible and sustainable future.
• fostering creative exploration and experimentation as well as multi-disciplinary collaboration.

After completing the degree, the students will have:

• the ability to apply various design strategies in reaction to programmatic, technical, and aesthetic requirements.
• an understanding of the main lines of development in history and theory of architecture and their contextual relevance for critical design thinking.
• the ability of identifying systemic interactions and the transformation of these interactions into design operations for socially responsible and sustainable action.

The program offers an opportunity for individual development of skills and knowledge in a range of specialization fields such as wood construction, building design and the reuse of buildings, human-centered design and wellbeing, computational design, preservation or urban design and planning.

The program is accredited and in line with the professional regulations of the EU directives.

All directions of specialization within the program prepare the students to pursue a career in architecture or related fields within Finland or abroad and enables them to work as an employee in the private or public sector, as independent entrepreneur or as post-graduate researcher.

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