Postgraduate | BASEhabitat

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April 04, 2022 - Sept 29, 2023

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key facts

Degree: Master of Advanced Studies
Duration: 3 terms / 90 ects
Tuition Fee: € 9.500
Participants: max. 20
Language: English (level B2)
Required Qualification:
Graduate Degree or
University BA + MA Degree in architecture or a comparable branch

summary 2020

Read through the summary of
activities of the Postgraduate 2020
Note that the current programme has been modified!

Objectives

Enhance the awareness of the global challenges we face in relation to the built environment, as climate change and social inequality.
Develop and widen the scope of action for architects and related professionals in order to develop alternative concepts as well as to implement them
Join efforts from different disciplines and include distinct cultural peculiarities without hierarchies
Raise the level of professionalism in built environment issues in development

Qualification

The programme qualifies its graduates for design and implementation processes related to the built environment, such as architecture, urban planning and regional development.

Who should apply

The Postgraduate | basehabitat

addresses built environment professionals with dedication and commitment to social and sustainable architecture and spatial development
invites those interested to pool forces with likeminded people and professionals in order to work on alternative approaches
provides participants the opportunity to work on radically different approaches in tackling global challenges

Teaching Team

A team of outstanding and internationally renowned guest professors.
An experienced and skilled team at basehabitat
Guest lecturers from different disciplines

Gian Franco Noriega (Amaco)

Markus Dobmeier

Curriculum structure

The program comprises 90ECTS, distributed among the three terms.

For further information: Postgrad BASEhabitat Curriculum 2022_23

What do participants learn?

Experience built environment matters in theory and practice from various perspectives. Understand different places and contexts and their dynamics.
Manage socially responsible planning and building processes. Work together in interdisciplinary teams.
Integrate architectural quality in functional necessities. Develop sustainable architectural solutions that are also convincing with their quality and aesthetic.
Design and build with sustainable building materials. Know about the wide range of possibilities these materials offer for contemporary architecture.
Develop and widen the scope of action for architects and related professionals in order to develop alternative concepts as well as to implement them
Join efforts from different disciplines and include distinct cultural peculiarities without hierarchies
Raise the level of professionalism in built environment issues in development

Teaching Principles

Practice driven and hands-on approach in a setting of international participants and teachers from various disciplines.
Integrating different cultural peculiarities. Facilitate mutual learning and a lively exchange of ideas.
Focus on design processes accompanied by a diverse setting of seminars, workshops, lectures and spatial practise. Design experience on-desk and on-site.
Groupwork and individual work, including possibilities of specialisation according to own interests.
Sharpen your individual profile and develop your own portfolio throughout the programme.

Postgraduate | basehabitat Master of Advanced Studies – Architecture