Master in Architecture

The years to be spent on a Master of Architecture complement the general training received in the Bachelor years. They give students the opportunity of following a more independent path, enabling them to better follow their personal aspirations, future engagements and specific areas of architectural design. The objective is to develop a pluralistic teaching, attentive to critical opinions, open to free thinking and innovative approaches to architecture, and deepening traditional architectural knowledge. It also aspires to be open to the numerous different facets of a rapidly evolving discipline, with a vast array of possibilities for specialisation and diversification. The MA course contributes to the training of architects and associated professionals capable of combining the necessary technical background, social responsibility and wealth of imagination. It offers broad opportunities for expression and creativity in a responsible way.

The teaching staff share the desire to establish a socially responsible Faculty, in tune with a changing world, open to innovative trends and aware of its social responsibilities. It welcomes all partnerships - whether in the field of politics, culture or the profession itself – helping the Faculty and its teaching to emerge from its isolation and relocate it at the centre of society – the place physically shaped, at the end of the day, by architecture. The teaching staff consists mainly of architects with one foot in professional practice and the other in academic teaching. The workshops are held in small groups with not more than twenty students per staff member, allowing great personal contact. International student mobility is greatly encouraged in the first year of the MA course.