Would you like to sharpen and deepen your design skills? Do you want to determine the content of your architecture studies yourself? Here you can develop innovative building types and construction methods! Or they can contribute to concepts for the city of the future!
With the decision to study architecture at TU Braunschweig you get the opportunity to learn, experiment and develop at a renowned university. Architecture is never just a solution to a given problem; it always consists of a variety of possibilities.
Developing standards for quality
The Master’s degree course in Architecture, which grew out of the profile of the Braunschweig School, focuses on design-related topics; the central content of the course is the creative synthesis of all core subjects in design and construction. During your studies you will learn to analyse phenomena of architecture and the city, to reflect critically and to design architectural spaces appropriately in terms of shape and atmosphere as well as construction and function. In doing so, you will benefit from the expertise of professors who, with their respective profiles, are working successfully in professional practice and play a leading role in one of the research priorities of TU Braunschweig, the “City of the Future. ”
Trained holistically, you will acquire all the knowledge and skills needed to help shaping our built environment. At the same time, you develop an awareness of the responsibility that is entrusted to you as an architect.
Think tank and creative cocoon
A special facility for architecture students at TU Braunschweig are the design studios. Students can apply for one of the more than 300 studio spaces.
These student workspaces play an important role in determining the quality of architectural studies. The strength of the studios lies in the mutual support and criticism of the students during their drafts and exercises, but also in the communal cooperation in busy phases. Ideally, a collaborative, creative atmosphere develops here.
The stimulation and exchange of ideas with fellow students is a unique experience in the course of studies and complements the teaching of lecturers.
Competitions and exhibitions enrich your studies
Our students as well as our graduates have a reputation for creating outstanding designs. They regularly face national and international competitions and win prestigious prizes. Most recently, students of our department were awarded the Heinze Award 2021, Competitionline Campus Award 2021, the Laves Prize 2020, the BDA-SARP Award 2020, the Euraterra Special Prize for Master’s Students 2020, the Wolfsburg Award 2020 and the Helmut Rhode Promotion Award 2019. At the Göderitz Prize initiated by TU Braunschweig, which was awarded nationwide, students of our department were able to win two first prizes in 2019.
They also compete internally with the CloudClub Award of our alumni association, which annually awards prizes to the best student designs and works of our department. The result of this competition will be shown in the department’s exhibition pavilion. The semester drafts and the Master’s thesis are also publicly presented and discussed.
Information on the study programme
Deepen your own professional interests
After the basic training in the Bachelor’s programme, the subsequent Master’s programme focuses on deepening knowledge and competence. Now you have the greatest freedom to configure your studies according to your own professional interests. You can choose to generalize your education or specialize in the different fields of architecture.
Structure of the study programme
You expand your architectural-design repertoire in design projects or (artistic or theoretical) works in
- the Designs projects in context (of buildings and cities)
- the Experimental design projects
- the Research project or the Art project
- the Short term design projects
- and the Impromptu design projects.
Choosing from a pool of courses, you will deepen your knowledge in seminars and specialization subjects in the following areas
- History of architecture
- Theory of architecture and urbanization
- Spatial concepts in art and media
- Design processes in art and media
- Efficiency and constructive systems
- Methods of construction
- Formations of city and landscape
- Methods and tools of urban design and landscape design
- Architectural typology and form
- Processes and methods of architectural design.
In addition, you will acquire key qualifications in career-oriented courses or through practical work in architectural or planning offices.
In the final Master’s thesis, you will prove that you have the ability to work independently on a highly complex architectural design task or a free work.
Experience abroad is very important: during an excursion, during an internship or during a study at a partner university.
Thanks to the numerous international exchange programmes at TU Braunschweig, you can integrate semesters abroad into your studies: your achievements from abroad are recognised and your studies do not extend.
A stay abroad also offers an excellent opportunity to acquire new language skills, refreshing them and expanding them to a professional repertoire. Language acquisition and intercultural experiences open up the best chances in an globalised job market.
Field trips to Germany and abroad are offered every semester. A special are the trips during the summer semester, which are carried out across study programmes and semesters. Insights into different cultures and professional practice are also provided by regular guest lectures by renowned international architects.
Studying abroad [in German only]
The architect’s field of work is complex and multifaceted. The study of architecture combines the realm of art and technology as well as history and society. Architects are responsible for the design and shape of buildings. They are in charge of the technical and economic development and implementation in the design as well as for the coordination of specialist engineers. They are the central interface between many interests and parties, such as the building owner, the executors on the construction site and the building authorities. Creativity, artistic talent, spatial imagination, technical understanding, communication skills, negotiation skills and assertiveness are necessary competences for architects.
For studying in the Master’s programme at TU Braunschweig, these abilities and talents should be clearly visible from the previous Bachelor’s programme. In particular, design skills should be reflected in the results of your Bachelor’s degree. You should have a high degree of interest in research, experimental design, learning and working.
Even in an increasingly diversified job market, architects will continue to work predominantly as freelancers, employees or civil servants in architectural offices, planning departments of public employers or the housing and construction industry, where they will take a leading role in projects from design to implementation.
Although tasks, values and working methods are constantly changing and the demands are becoming ever more diverse, architects remain in principle generalists.
Graduates with a previous Bachelor’s degree in Architecture meet the national and international guidelines for the management of the professional title Architect. After a two-year practical phase, they have acquired the qualification for professional qualification and licensing as an architect in Germany and the EU.
Admission requirements and application
You can apply for the Master’s degree programme if you are holding a suitable Bachelor’s degree. With your application, you must submit a portfolio of works from your undergraduate education. Admission is conditional upon a six-month internship in an architectural or planning office. Detailed information on which requirements you must meet can be found in the admissions regulations. Please read them before applying!
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