Fontys Academy of Architecture & Urbanism, Tilburg, the Netherlands offers the concurrent Master of Architecture (M. Arch). The Master of Architecture is collaborative, topical, creative and practice based. While firmly rooted in the Dutch architectural tradition, the program has a strong international orientation.
Nowadays, spatial challenges to be confronted by architects are global by nature while still requiring context and location specific solutions. The master program’s objective is to educate architects who are able at effectively combining design intelligence with a reflective attitude and practical and entrepreneurial skills.
The curriculum is competence based and geared towards achieving mastery skills in seven crucial competences (Desgin, Research, Collaboration, Communication, Entrepreneurial skills, Organizing, Professional skills) The educational concept of this Master program is unique; education in concurrency with employment in a professional practice. This concurrent education offers students experience and education beyond the school curriculum, essential to their professional formation as architectural designers.
Additionally, the Academy itself is a laboratory for spatial assignments from real stakeholders. Our tutors are professionals from a variety of disciplines, but all with a strong relation to practice. The Design Studio is the heart of the master program. In the studio students are trained to apply all kinds of skills and methods towards ever more convincing synthetic design proposals for complex spatial problems. The studio assignments are invariably related to the complexity of contemporary societies and will engage social, cultural, political, economic and technological parameters.
Study variant: Part-time
Location: Tilburg
Start moment(s): September
Duration: 48 months
Language: English
Degree: Master of Science
Admission requirements:
· Bachelor degree in an university of applied sciences
· Two year professional experience in MBA-related field
· Studielink.nl registration
· Copy of ID
· IELTS certificate with a minimum score of 6; TOEFL Internet based minimum 79, TOEFL computer base 213 or TOEFL paper based 550.Master of Science in Business & Management
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