ARCHITECTURE
CITIES
LANSCAPES
ARCHITECTURE
CITIES
LANDSCAPES
Our Courses.
Our courses offer a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of architecture, cities, landscapes, and heritage, combining historical depth with contemporary relevance. Students engage with key theories, methods, and debates while working on concrete spatial questions drawn from real-world contexts. Through seminars, research-based assignments, and fieldwork, the curriculum connects academic inquiry to pressing societal challenges such as climate adaptation, sustainability, heritage practices, and urban transformation, preparing students for research, policy, and professional practice.
Themes in Architecture, Cities, and Landscapes
This course introduces key ideas and current conversations about architecture, cities, and landscapes. Students explore some of today’s most pressing global challenges, such as diversity, climate change, digital transformation, environmental thinking, and decolonisation, and discuss how they shape the world around us. The course also shows how these issues connect to the wider fields of design and planning, and to the focus of our master’s programme.
(De)Constructing Architectural & Town Planning Heritage
This is one of the introductory courses of the Master's Architecture, Cities, Landscapes: History and Heritage. In this course, we critically examine central concepts such as architecture, history, heritage, monument, identity, adaptive reuse, and spatial transformation. As the group of students is as interdisciplinary as the academic field of ACL in which we operate, we will analyze and discuss these concepts based on literature ...
Challenges in the Living Environment
This course addresses the relationship between spatial heritage and environmental and social crises of our times as a point of departure. We will start by assessing a real-life pressing challenge and discuss how we can approach it with heritage, landscape, and architectural history research methodologies. In this course, we will thus simultaneously get acquainted with socio-environmental challenges ...
Research Seminar
This course introduces students to historical research on urban development and architecture by covering a current topic. Joint discussion of texts and projects is combined with the exploration of an individual research question within the central theme. Attention is paid to different scales: from the long lines of the city, the neighborhood, streets, and blocks, to individual buildings. Excursions and archive visits ensure that you get a quick picture of the ...
Planning Heritage
This interdisciplinary course explores the presence of the past and its influence on the future of urban environments. Investigating diverse urban elements, including architecture, buildings, and landscapes, and examining spatial interventions, we will engage with the tension between how the history of the built environment is perceived and how urban development is envisioned. Focusing on the intersection of urban transformation ...
MA Thesis
With the master thesis, students demonstrate their ability to conduct research according to academic standards in the interdisciplinary fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape studies. They show they are capable of critically analysing a specific spatial, social, or environmental issue within a broader urban or landscape context. The master's thesis is a clearly written and well-structured research document ...