Bachelor of Science in Engineering: Architecture

First and foremost, our programme offers a solid practical training, architectural design methods and presentation techniques, supplemented with a basic knowledge of urban design. You will be made acquainted with, and gain insight into the constructional and technical principles of building. You will learn the significance and social importance of architecture and urban design nourished by historical and architectural theoretical knowledge and reflection. You will learn to conduct and present design-oriented and academic research. And last but not least, you will get to know the architect’s professional practice. With its rich learning environment, our study programme offers you the time, the means and the possibilities to deepen or become proficient in one of the specific aspects of the field, depending on your own abilities and interests.

• Bachelor

The Bachelor’s programme offers a common curriculum for all students. It contains three cornerstones: architectural design, engineering and fundamental sciences course units, and architectural sciences. You are introduced to architectural design practice, and to the design process through specific design practicals. In the design-related course units (Design Theory, Studio Perception and Presentation Media, Digital Design) you will learn to think and communicate about your own work in words and images, and to choose the appropriate means and presentation techniques to do so. In the engineering course units you are introduced to the construction and technical principles of building. The mathematics and physics course units will give you the necessary scientific footing. In addition, we also focus on the social importance of architecture and urban planning.

• Master

The Master’s curriculum allows for the development of your own specific profile. Each of our students comes into contact with a broad variety of disciplines, all of which are part of the cultural, spatial and technical field of architecture. We confront you with complex social issues, which are impossible to tackle from a monodisciplinary perspective but demand a multiperspectivistic approach instead. In addition, you will choose from a set of design studios focusing on the city, on architecture, the interior or construction details. These design studios are taught by specialists from the Flemish architectural scene, each of whom have their own unique vision.

In the Master’s curriculum, traditional lectures increasingly make way for seminars with a focus on specific themes or issues. Our electives consist for a large part of ‘special issues’. These give you the opportunity to participate in the ongoing research of our lecturers. The Master's dissertation offers the opportunity of an in-depth study of a specific field of knowledge, ranging from building physics, architectural history, to urbanisation processes and architectural design. Your choice of topic is always settled in close consultation with one of our lecturers.

The seminars as well as the Master's dissertation contain highly interactive teaching methods. They garner close interaction between students, lecturers, and researchers. After completing the Architecture programme (the Bachelor’s and/or the Master’s programme), you might consider the Urbanism and Spatial Planning programme. It focuses on the interrelation between space and society, and how policy can impact this interrelation.

Our graduates are professionally active in a wide variety of sectors. After the work placement, some of them set up their own architectural practice, either individually or in group. Other graduates find employment in government services, where they help set the scene for future building and planning. Others choose a career as stability or technical installations engineer, project manager, energy expert or safety co-ordinator. The study programme also opens up professional perspectives for those who want to focus on advanced visualization techniques or data processing necessary in construction and planning processes. 

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