The content of this module is closely related to the unit projects that typically include the design of buildings, their sitting, their energy use, the choice of construction, materials and processes, as well as the quality of their internal environment and micro-climate with a focus on the issues of sustainability and the performance of the building envelope.

• Design of buildings, their sitting, their energy use, the choice of construction, materials and processes, as well as the quality of their internal environment and micro-climate focussing the issues of sustainability and the performance of the building envelope.
• Developpment of creative design skills integrating sustainable building technology.
• Guest lecturers and professors coming from an international context teaching alternating contents as compact projects, which complement the regular Projects Studios.
• 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 sustainable design and provide the intellectual cultural and technological context for the study in achitecture.
Lectures, seminars.

The module Sustainable Design I seeks to establish the theoretical and professional frame to an integrated and specific architectural debate and project making within the concentration Sustainable Design.
The topics center on issues to develop critical positions towards subjective reasoning in the field of sustainable design and to further the ability to root these positions in the theory of building construction and technology, as well as in the political, sociological, and cultural context of contemporary architecture and society.

The compact projects are set to complement skills and knowledge acquired in the project studios and to broaden the horizon of the students.

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 module Courses Sustainable Design into a responsible and sustainable professional behaviour.

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

• Knowledge that covers and integrates most of the principle areas, features, boundaries, terminology and conventions of the discipline of architecture focused on the issues of sustainability and the performance of the building envelope.
• A researched understanding of sustainability in order to take a position as a designer reflected in the ability to devise and implement strategies for sitting, energy use, choice of construction, materials and processes, as well as for the quality of the internal environment and micro-climate.
• A researched and integrated knowledge of building construction and materials, structural design and energy transfer mechanisms synthesized in coherent design projects that express architectural intentions and considerations of a sustainable environment.
• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and informations fluently in english language and work comprehensively in visual, oraland written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programme of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physicalresources in relation to set project briefs and self-direct programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
• Development of critical position as an individual designer and contribute this to the on-going studio debate. Deal with complex ethical and professional issues.

• Intermediate and final review with externals

All courses in the module have to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the weighted average of the single course grades.

Building Physics 1 33%
Building Mechanical Systems 1 33%
Material Technology 1 33%

• The various contents of the Elective Courses are discussed in the descriptions of the single courses.

Lectures, seminars.

The module Electives Design Theory I seeks to establish complementary knowledge and integrative understanding for the concentration Design Theory. The students choose 4 courses from 6 possible courses.

The aim is to provide students with the complementary professional knowledge and intellectual instruments to approach the problems discussed in the design project studios.

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

• Present and evaluate arguments, information and ideas concerning the discipline.
• An understanding of professional vocabulary and concepts.
• Confidence in analysing case studies of urban structures and the ability to infer principles and motivations.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, readings and protocols.
• 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, and the ability to integrate these aspects in an individual design thinking and work.

• The various assessment methods are discussed in the descriptions of the single courses.

All 4 chosen courses in the module have to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the average of the single course grades.

• Theoretic concepts in landscape, planning and design issues
• Case studies of key projects in each of three thematic fields
• Crossdisciplinary strategies for urban and landscape change
• Recent developments in urban planning and landscape policy and practice

Lectures, seminars.

The three course packages in urban design strategies, spatial and traffic planning as well as in landscape architecture integrate into a firm fundament which guides the design and planning proposals. Each course focuses on theoretical, interdisciplinary and practical issues. The theoretical part clarifies the specific historical meanings and discourses of urban space and landscape in each thematic field and gives an overview of the relevant theoretical discourses and practical achievements. The analyses of case studies allow for an empirical discussion of the impact of socioeconomic, politial, cultural and physical determinants on urban development strategies. The courses of the module 'Courses UrbanScape I' thereby create the interdisciplinary knowledge background of theoretical and practical aspects needed for the project studio and informs the students of the elective courses on the complex determination of urban and regional contexts of architecture.

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.
• Ability to connect the contents of the courses with the design and planning work.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments and seminars.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts comprehensibly in visual, oral and written forms.
• Present and evaluate arguments, information and ideas concerning the discipline of Urban Design.

• The various assessment methods are discussed in the descriptions of the single courses.

All courses in the module have to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the weighted average of the single course grades.

• Urban Design Strategies 1 33%
• Urban Networks and Transportation 33%
• Landscape Architecture and Planning 1 33%

• 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 Master-Studiums angepasst sein.

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 Modulleitung.

Im Seminar müssen die geforderten 320 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 %

• Externe Berufspraxis, von der Hochschule begleitet und überwacht.
• Ein verpflichtendes Betreuungsgespräch mit dem Verantwortlichen der Berufspraxis während des Praktikums.
• Seminararbeit mit schriftlichem Bericht und Dokumentation bewertet durch Experten und die Modulleitung.

• Benutzeroberfläche
• Erste Werkzeuge
• Projektaufbau und Modellkontrolle
• Erste Visualisierungen
• Schnitte und Ansichten
• Bemassung und Beschriftung
• Layout und Drucken
• Schnittstellen (inkl. Cinema)

Frontalunterricht mit Übungen und Assistenzdienst

Die Studenten/innen können einfache Planungsaufgaben in VECTORWORKS erarbeiten sowie Pläne und Bilder innerhalb eines Layouts ausdrucken

Dossier VECTORWORKS kennen lernen

Beurteilung am Unterreicht: 10.10.11 - 09.01.12
Projektarbeit Abgabe 16.01.12

• 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%

• The various contents of the Elective Courses are discussed in the descriptions of the single courses.

Lectures, seminars.

The module Electives Design Theory I seeks to establish complementary knowledge and integrative understanding for the concentration Design Theory. The students choose 4 courses from 6 possible courses.

The aim is to provide students with the complementary professional knowledge and intellectual instruments to approach the problems discussed in the design project studios.

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

• Present and evaluate arguments, information and ideas concerning the discipline.
• An understanding of professional vocabulary and concepts.
• Confidence in analysing case studies of urban structures and the ability to infer principles and motivations.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, readings and protocols.
• 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, and the ability to integrate these aspects in an individual design thinking and work.

• The various assessment methods are discussed in the descriptions of the single courses.

All 4 chosen courses in the module have to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the average of the single course grades.

• Urban design, housing, commercial and cultural builings within the inner city and its periphery.
• Developpment of creative design skills against demanding constraints.
• Highly integrated, specific support by Courses Design Theory I
• Scale from analytical work to architectural design projects between 1:2000 and 1:200.
• Guest lecturers and professors coming from an international context teaching alternating contents as compact projects, which complement the regular Projects Studios Design Theory I.
• 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 Design Theory I 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.

The compact projects are set to complement skills and knowledge acquired in the project studios and to broaden the horizon of the students.

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 Courses Design Theory I into a responsible and sustainable professional behaviour.

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 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 and final review with externals

All courses in the module have to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the weighted average of the single course grades.

• Project Studio Design Theory 1 82%
• Compact Project Design Theory 1 18%

• Approaches to theoretical topics of particular relevance to the semester through notional explanations, discussions and clarifications, and based on the reading of key texts from the sciences and the arts
• Historiographical discussion of the 'making of architectural history and theory'; notes on the making of history in architecture from various perspectives, such as political, economical, sociological, philosophical, and cultural.
• Introduction and construction of archives of perceptual impressions from the physical/neurological domain, and their interpretations through the cognitive sector through models, speculations and concepts, building on the primary biological developments.

Lectures, seminars.

The module Courses Design Theory I seeks to establish the theoretical foundations for the concentration Design Theory.
The topics for the first semester center on issues regarding the theoretical planning and construction of space proper considering notions such as typology, morphology and style; the discussion of the historical emergence of the concept of 'architectural' space as a product of social constructivist processes, considering the impact of ideological, political, and ecomical forces; an introduction to the fundamental aspects of processes of perception that enable occupants of architectural spaces to mentally construct a representation of these spaces.

The aim is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and intellectual instruments to approach the problems discussed in the design project studios.

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

• 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 for assignments, readings and protocols.
• 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.

• The various assessment methods are discussed in the descriptions of the single courses.

All courses in the module have to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the weighted average of the single course grades.

• Architectural Theory 33%
• History of Architecture 1 33%
• Cognitive Science for Architects 1 33%