Beginning: 4th November, 2010
During: 11 months
The Master in Urban Vision and Architectural Design program offers a vision where city planning, architecture, design skills, social and anthropological analysis, communication and marketing tools converge to create a new professional identity, able to redefine the functions and aesthetics of the urban space.
The world’s urban population is rapidly increasing and urban areas are the stage for important changes in human evolution. The cities are the workshop for these changes, which are the result of trends and thrusts that will not decrease in the following ages.
Cities will be the places where lots of problems will arise, but also where solutions can be found.
Urban transformation processes and the way economic, human, social and environmental resources are used, call for more and more complex competences and cooperation between different actors.
The Master’s objective is to enable professionals to manage complex urban, architectural and territorial issues, by using innovative analysis tools and design methods on different levels with a particular stress on planning, landscape design, environmental sustainability and renewable energy.
The final goal is to provide an adequate training to professionals playing a role in the process of Urban and Architecture transformation and development.
The core courses are structured around five modules. The five modules – Tools and Languages, Strategies and Vision, Architectural Link, Urban and Landscape Design, Architectural Design – are composed by both lectures and workshops:
- the lectures express the experience, reflections and methodologies about architectural design and urban planning;
- the workshop give students high familiarity with the research, analysis, planning and communication activities.
During the last three months students develop the Final Master Project that will focus on specific aspects that relate to the reality of urban and architectural design. The student is required to submit a multimedia Presentation and a Dissertation.