• Urban design, housing, commercial and cultural buildings within the inner city and its periphery.
• Developpment of creative design skills against demanding constraints.
• Highly integrated, specific support by Courses Design Theory II.
• Scale from analytical work to architectural design projects between 1:2000 and 1:200.
• Debate on current topics from practice, theory and research within the lecture series.

Studio delivered and project based, with students being tutored individually and in groups. This is supported by lectures that explain the principles that underlie architectural design and provide the intellectual and cultrual context for the study in achitecture.
Lectures, seminars.

The module Master-Thesis Design Theory seeks to establish the theoretical and professional frame to an integrated, intellectual and specific architectural debate and project making within the concentration Design Theory.
The topics center on issues to develop critical positions towards subjective reasoning in architecture and to further the ability to root these positions in the history and theory of architecture, as well as in the political, sociological, and cultural context of contemporary architecture and society. Theoretical planning and architectural articulation of space considering notions such as typology, morphology and style are fundamental topics in architectural education.
One or several excursions are complementary to the project studio work.

The aim of the module is to provide students with the necessary architectural tools and intellectual instruments and avareness to integrate the knowledge aquired in the entire MSc Degree-Program into a responsible and sustainable professional behaviour.
The Master-Thesis student is expected to submit a complete Thesis-Project that instigates the work of the students in the lower semesters and represents the architectural and intellectual culture of the concentration Design Theory.

At the end of the module each student should have the ability to demonstrate and/or work with:

• A researched understanding of design in order to take a position as a designer reflected in the ability to devise and implement strategies.
• A critical understanding of the intellectual and aesthetic content of self-selected buildings that supports architectural judgement.
• Researched and critical evaluation of the briefing and performance of buildings.
• The ability to define what type of research is relevant, what questions to ask, and which formats to record the findings to best serve as a springboard to design decisions.
• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Ability to plan and compose buildings exhibiting complexity in terms of function, scale and context.
• knowledge on the humanistic currents through the reading of selected literature
• An understanding of the history of architecture reinterpreted considering political, sociological, and economical aspects.
• An insight into the structure and the workings of the outer organs of perception and perception in general.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts comprehensibly in visual, oral and written forms.
• Present and evaluate arguments, information and ideas concerning the various fields discussed in this module, and the ability to integrate these aspects in their individual design thinking and work.

• Intermediate colloquium and final review with externals
• Thesis Book

The module has to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).

• Project Studio Master-Thesis Design Theory 100%

• Die berufspraktische Tätigkeit ist studienintegriert und wird während des Studiums von der Hochschule begleitet und überwacht. Die Studierenden absolvieren die berufspraktische Tätigkeit Blockweise in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit des Studiums.
• Theoretisches Wissen in der Praxis anwenden und umsetzten lernen
• Mitglied einer Arbeitsgruppe mit der Lösung der gestellten Teilaufgabe
• Erlernte Arbeitsmethoden im Studium anzuwenden

Die Berufspraxis wird in einem Architekturbüro als Praktikum ausgeführt. Es muss ein Einblick in die verschiedenen Projekt- und Themenbereiche erfolgen. Die Komplexität der Projekte soll dem Ausbildungsstand und den Inhalten des Bachelor-Studiums angepasst sein.

Das Bachelor-Studium zeichnet sich durch eine enge Verbindung von Lehre und Praxis aus. Die Studierenden erhalten durch ihr berufliches Training während des Studiums einen vertieften Einblick in verschiedene maßgebliche Bereiche der beruflichen Tätigkeit. Sie verbinden damit ihre theoretischen Studien an der Hochschule - dem Stand ihrer Ausbildung entsprechend - mit der praktischen Tätigkeit in einem Architekturbüro.

Die Studierenden

• verfügen über grundlegende Kenntnisse der praktischen Umsetzung in der Architektur.
• verstehen die Komplexität der Umsetzung vom Entwurf zum Bauwerk.
• sind in der Lage, in einem Architekturbüro Erlerntes anzuwenden.
• sind fähig, die gestellten Aufgaben unter Anleitung auszuführen und in der Umsetzung persönliche Effektivität zu demonstrieren.
• vermögen die Arbeit visuell, in Sprache und Schrift verständlich zu kommunizieren.
• können Ideen, Informationen und Argumente im architektonischen Diskurs verstehen, werten und in der Praxis umsetzten.

• Betreuungsgepräch nach Anmeldung der Praxisstelle
• Seminar mit Präsentation des schriftlichen Berichtes und der Dokumentation des absolvierten Praktikums, bewertet durch Experten und die Modulleitung.

Im Seminar müssen die geforderten 480 Stunden nachgewiesen werden und insgesamt mit einer genügenden Note bestanden werden (Mindestnote 4.0).

Die Modulgesamtnote wird wie folgt errechnet:

Präsentation 20 %
Inhalt 50 %
Lernprozess 30 %

• Theoretic concepts in landscape, planning and design issues
• Cases studies of key projects in each of three thematic fields
• Cross-disciplinary strategies for urban and landscape change
• Highly integrated, specific support by Courses UrbanScape II
• Recent developments in urban planning and landscape policy and practice
• contents as compact projects, which complement the regular
• Projects Studios Design UrbanScape II.
• Debate on current topics from practice, theory and research within the lecture series.

Studio delivered and project based, with students being tutored individually and in groups. This is supported by lectures that explain the principles that underlie architectural design and provide the intellectual and cultrual context for the study in achitecture.
Lectures, seminars.

Today's City is everywhere and at the same time nowhere. The old antipoles of city and countryside have been dissolved and are substituted by hybrid spatial and functional nets of urban, suburban and rural fragments. This spatial reality challenges architecture and calls for a new definition of its role and its methods.
The module Master-Thesis Design UrbanScape seeks to integrate architecture, landscape and contemporary concepts in urban and spatial research into a new design concept. It explores the phenomena and processes of actual settlement und landscape by enriching architectural modes of operation and perception with social and cultural aspects. The module Design UrbanScape relocates the role and the potentials of architecture in the contemporary spatial realities.
One or several excursions are complementary to the project studio work.

The aim of the module is to provide students with the necessary architectural tools and intellectual instruments and avareness to integrate the knowledge aquired in the entire MSc Degree-Program into a responsible and sustainable professional behaviour.

The Master-Thesis student is expected to submit a complete Thesis-Project that instigates the work of the students in the lower semesters and represents the architectural and intellectual culture of the concentration Design UrbanScape.

At the end of the module each student should have the ability to demonstrate and/or work with:

• A broad knowledge of the tasks and current issues of urban and landscape realities.
• An understanding of the basic professional vocabulary and an awareness of evolving meanings of these terms over different historical periods.
• Confidence in analysing case studies of urban structures and the ability to infer principles and motivations.
• The ability to define what type of research is relevant, what questions to ask, and which formats to record the findings to best serve as a springboard to design decisions.
• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• knowledge on the humanistic currents through the reading of selected literature
• An understanding of the history of urban concepts reinterpreted considering political, sociological, and economical aspects.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts comprehensibly in visual, oral and written forms.
• Present and evaluate arguments, information and ideas concerning the various fields discussed in this module, and the ability to integrate these aspects in their individual design thinking and work.

• Intermediate colloquium and final review with externals
• Thesis Book

The module has to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).

• Project Studio Master-Thesis Design UrbanScape 100%

Das Modul wird aus Lehrveranstaltungen des Nachfolgecurriculums gebildet. Es gilt die SPO für C12.

Technik des Jahresabschlusses (mit/ohne Abschlusstabelle), Elemente des Jahresabschlusses (Bilanz, Gewinn- & Verlustrechnung, Anhang, Lagebericht), Bilanzierung im Allgemeinen, Bewertungsmassstäbe (Anschaffungskosten, Herstellungskosten, beizulegender Wert,) Bilanzierungsgrundsätze (Vorsichtsprinzip, Realisationsprinzip, Niederstwertprinzip, Höchstwertprinzip), Gewinn- & Verlustrechnung nach Gesamtkosten- und Umsatzkostenverfahren , Ergebnisverwendung bei Kapitalgesellschaften (mit/ohne Ausschüttungssperren) und bei Personengesellschaften, Aktivierungswahlrechte, Passivierungswahlrechte, Anlagenspiegel, Forderungenspiegel, Fremdwährungsforderungen und -verbindlichkeiten, Rückstellungenspiegel, Verbindlichkeitenspiegel, ausgewählte Sonderformen der Rückstellungen, Eventualverbindlichkeiten, Verbuchung verschiedener Zuschüsse, gewinnabhängige Steuern und Mehr-Weniger-Rechnung, Unternehmen in der Krise (Überschuldung), latente Steuern (aktive und passive latente Steuern) .

Grundlagen des betrieblichen Rechnungswesens, Inventur und Inventar, Buchungsarten (Bestandsbuchung, Erfolgsbuchungen, Privat-Buchungen, Verbuchung des Warenverkehrs, Rechnungsausgleich unter Berücksichtigung von Warenrücksendungen, Rabatten und Skonti, Erfolgsermittlung, Belegorganisation, Systematik und Verbuchung der Umsatzsteuer, Verbuchung sonstiger laufender Geschäftsfälle im Handels- und Produktionsbetrieb, Lohn- und Gehaltsverbuchung, Debitoren- und Kreditoren-Buchhaltung, Buchungsprobleme des Anlagevermögens (planmässige Abschreibung, ausserplanmässige Abschreibung, Zuschreibung, Sonderformen der Abschreibung, Anlagenverzeichnis), Buchungsprobleme des Umlaufvermögens (Wareneinsatzermittlungsarten, Arten der Forderungsbewertung, Bestandsveränderungen), Rechnungsabgrenzungen, Rückstellungen, Verbindlichkeiten, Problematik stiller Reserven (Bildung bzw Aufdeckung).

This module is designed as a capstone course, thereby linking diverse aspects of Business Administration and Management, particularly in the intersection of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, such as the field of new venture strategy, global competition, and rapidly changing environments. In addition the implications on strategy formation, implementation, and execution are considered, thereby covering both competitive and cooperative strategies. That is, firms as well as alliances, business groups, and interfirm networks - are considered.
Students learn and practice how to analyze a strategic situation in an entrepreneurial context, how to identify and choose a superior competitive position, and finally how to create the organizational context to make the chosen strategy work.
In the module we are concerned not only with the understanding and application of concepts, but also with the development of critical thinking skills as well as systems thinking. Thus, whenever possible we will attempt to identify 1) the potential for application and/or 2) the actual application of the concepts with respect to strategy and entrepreneurship. This will provide insight regarding how to fine tune a strategy program in order to effectively run an organization.

The objectives of this course are:

• to explore conceptual frameworks and models which will assist students to analyze competitive situations as well as strategic dilemmas and gain insight into the intersection between strategy and entrepreneurship,
• to reflect on diverse (conceptual and philosophical) approaches to strategy and to identify differences in impact,
• to help students acquire experience in dealing with strategic issues,
• to analyze and interpret information and act accordingly upon this information,
• to understand strategic problems and challenges in starting an innovative new venture and to understand the perils of pre-configuring a large, complicated, novel firm infrastructure,
• to work effectively and efficiently in teams,
• to continuously take decisions under time pressure, under high levels of uncertainty, and within partially unknown competition,
• to learn to deal with unexpected feedback from the (virtual) market and business environment and to react upon those in a timely manner.

The students' command of the relevant underlying theories and concepts and the development of critical thinking skills are facilitated in the context of
1) class discussion/activities and
2) the venture strategy simulation game.

Class discussions / activities are aimed at:
1) further explaining material,
2) providing examples of concepts, and/or
3) providing new perspectives to reflect the approaches taken
4) fostering the students in defining the information they need from Consultants and Support they need from Coaches.

The management simulation provides students with the opportunity to test their management knowledge in teams across a broad spectrum of areas. It also forces students in their on-going decision making on strategy, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, business partner negotiations, profitability analysis and others.

• The backbone of the course is the simulation Marketplace Live (http://www.marketplace-live.com/simulations/venture-strategy.php). - The licence fee for each student is USD 50,-
• In addition there will be sessions with "consultants" and "coaches". It is the students duty to make best use of this "external" resources.

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zum Modul:
Erfolgreicher Abschluss von English I