• 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.

• 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%

• 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%

• Architektonischer Entwurf im städtischen oder ortsbaulichen Kontext: Mehrgeschossigkeit und komplexe Nutzungszusammenhänge in klar definniertem Rahmen, Vertiefung von konstruktiven und technischen Aspekten innerhalb des Projektes mit integrierten Experten aus dem Modulen Bautechnik (Statik, Bauphysik, Haustechnik) oder Theorie
• Einführung in den architektonischen Entwurfsprozess aus dem Innenraum heraus: Vertiefen architektonischer Grundprinzipien wie Raum, Licht, Material, Proportionen, Massstäblichkeit; Entwurf von einem Kleinprojekt mit einer Raumsequenz von wenigen Räumen.
• Parametrisierte Entwerfen mit dem Computer: Benutzen der CNC-Fräse als Werkzeug zur Herstellung von Verbindungen, Knoten und Strukturen.
• Vermittlung von vertiefenden Inhalten in Exkursionsprojekte, die thematisch eng mit ihrem Entwurfsthema verknüpft sind.
• Auseinanderzusetzung mit aktuellen Fragen aus der Architekturpraxis und dem laufenden Architekturdiskurs in einem theoretischen Kontext in der Vortragsreihe.

Projektunterricht im Atelier mit Inputvorlesungen, Exkursionen, Gruppenarbeiten, Einzelgesprächen.

Aufbauend auf den Modulen Entwurf I, II und III werden die Grundlagen des architektonischen Entwerfens vertieft und die letzten beiden Semester im Bachelor-Studium vorbereitet. Einerseits steht das vertiefte Aneignen einer individuellen Entwurfsmethodik im architektonischen Entwerfen und Konstruieren mit dem erweiterten Einbezug von Grundlagen und Anforderungen aus anderen Disziplinen, insbesondere mit dem Einbezug von integriertem Fachwissen aus dem Modulen Bautechnik und Theorie im Vodergrund. Andererseits werden Teilgebiete des architektonischen Entwerfens wie etwa der innenräumliche architektonische Entwurf im Hinblick auf die Raumdramaturgie und Stimmung oder das Entwerfen von digitalen Produktionsprozessen im Hinblick auf die Realisierung einer konkreten Baustruktur kultiviert. Darüber hinaus wird in einer Exkursionswoche ein prozesshafter Einblick in eine architektonische Kultur einer Stadt, Region oder Landschaft vermittelt.

Die Studierenden

• verfügen über breite Kenntnisse der Architektur und des architektonischen Entwerfens und ein vertieftes Wissen einer spezifischen architektonischen Kultur.
• vermögen den architektonischen Entwurfsprozess aus dem Innenraum heraus zu steuern.
• verfügen über vertiefte Kenntnisse des computerbasierten architektonischen Entwerfens und können maschinellen Prozesse entwickeln.
• können Innenräume und insbesondere Lichtführung und Materialität in den verschiedensten Medien darstellen.
• sind befähigt, ihren Entwurfsprozess mit Computers der CNC-Fräse zu koppeln und Teile einer baulichen Struktur herzustellen.
• denken und argumentieren eigenständig auf verschiedenen konzeptionelle Ebenen und können eine kritische Diskussion der Architektur führen.
• sind befähigt, ihren Entwurfsprozess mit einer breiten Palette von Medien aufzubauen und kritisch in Bezug zur Aufgabenstellung darzulegen.
• beginnen Entwurfsprozesse selbständig zu strukturieren und zu reflektieren.
• können die gestellten Aufgaben selbständig innerhalb gesetzter Zeitvorgaben erarbeiten und eigenständig umsetzen.
• vermögen die Komplexität ihrer Projektarbeit am Computer, in Planform und Modell sowie in Sprache und Schrift überzeugend zu kommunizieren.
• können Ideen und Argumente im architektonischen Diskurs kritisch und analytisch formulieren und gezielt einsetzen.

Die Prüfung der Lernergebnisse erfolgt separat in den einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen (Zwischen- und Schlusskritiken mit externen Kritikern).

Alle Lehrveranstaltungen des Moduls müssen mit einer genügenden Note bestanden werden
(Mindestnote 4.0).
Die Modulnote wird aus den gewichteten Teilnoten der einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen errechnet:

Entwurf 4.1 55%
Entwurf 4.2 27%
Kompaktprojekt 4 18%

• According to the chosen concentration in the MSc Degree-Program at Hochschule Liechtenstein, students can direct their studies in a similar orientation, or study complementary courses that can be integrative to their concentration.
• The content is given by partner universities.

Generally 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 Study Abroad/ Special Studies gives the opportunity to study in an architectural program proposed by one of our none german speaking partner universities in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. The module aims to establish intercultural relationships and learning experiences. Students are confronted to new building cultures and traditions.

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

• Cultural awareness and sensibility.
• 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
• 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.

• According to partner university

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

• According to partner university

The module Study Abroad/ Special Studies is composed of following courses:

• according to courses proposed by partner universities
• according to related research/ special studies project in the concentration

• Ausbau der Grundlagen des architektonischen Entwerfens: Übergang zum architektonischen Entwurf mit Nutzung und Programm, Einführung vom Ort, Topographie und Kontext, Projektierung von einfachen Behausungen, Wohn- oder Arbeitsräumen und Ausweitung der Themen auf Erschliessung, Wegführung, räumliche Dramaturgie, Geschossigkeit, Treppen.
• Konstruktives Entwerfen mit stark materiellem Bezug: Erforschen und Anwenden tektonischer Themen aus dem Baumaterial in Detail und Gesamten, Herstellen von Kleinarchitekturen, Interaktion mit der Landschaft, Topographie und direkter Umgebung und handwerkliche Fertigung von Teilem oder Ganzem in realem Bauprozess.
• Vermittlung von vertiefenden Inhalten in Exkursionsprojekte, die thematisch eng mit ihrem Entwurfsthema verknüpft sind.
• Auseinanderzusetzung mit aktuellen Fragen aus der Architekturpraxis und dem laufenden Architekturdiskurs in einem theoretischen Kontext in der Vortragsreihe.

Projektunterricht im Atelier mit Inputvorlesungen, Exkursionen, Gruppenarbeiten, Einzelgesprächen.

Aufbauend auf das Modul Entwurf I sollen im Modul Entwurf II die Grundlagen für das weitere Studium des architektonischen Entwerfens gefestigt werden. Im Zentrum steht der Einblick in die Methodik des architektonischen und des konstruktiven Entwerfens, das Erforschen des Wahrnehmungs- und Gestaltungsvermögens und das Weiterführens des materiellen Gedankens in der Architektur. Darüber hinaus wird in einer Exkursionswoche ein prozesshafter Einblick in eine architektonische Kultur einer Stadt, Region oder Landschaft vermittelt.

Die Studierenden

• verfügen über die grundlegenden Kenntnisse von Architektur und Konstruktion, des architektonischen und konstruktiven Entwerfens sowie einer spezifischen architektonische Kultur.
• können konzeptionelle Gedankengänge in ihrer Arbeit einsetzen und wenden die Terminologie, welche für eine kritische Diskussion der Architektur benötigt wird, an.
• vermögen ihren Entwurfsprozess mit unterschiedlichen Medien aufzubauen und klar verständlich darzulegen.
• können die gestellten Aufgaben selbständig erarbeiten und mit Begleitung individuell umsetzen.
• sind fähig, ihre Projektarbeit Planform und Modell sowie in Sprache und Schrift klar verständlich zu kommunizieren.
• verfügen über die Kompetenz, mit Ideen und Argumente im architektonischen Diskurs umzugehen.

Die Prüfung der Lernergebnisse erfolgt separat in den einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen (Zwischen- und Schlusskritiken mit externen Kritikern).

Alle Lehrveranstaltungen des Moduls müssen mit einer genügenden Note bestanden werden
(Mindestnote 4.0).
Die Modulnote wird aus den gewichteten Teilnoten der einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen errechnet:

Entwurf 2.1 55%
Entwurf 2.2 27%
Kompaktprojekt 2 18%

• 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.

• According to the chosen concentration in the MSc Degree-Program at Hochschule Liechtenstein, students can direct their studies in a similar orientation, or study complementary courses that can be integrative to their concentration.
• The content is given by partner universities.

Generally 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 Study Abroad/ Special Studies gives the opportunity to study in an architectural program proposed by one of our none german speaking partner universities in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. The module aims to establish intercultural relationships and learning experiences. Students are confronted to new building cultures and traditions.

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

• Cultural awareness and sensibility.
• 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
• 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.

• According to partner university

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

• According to partner university

The module Study Abroad/ Special Studies is composed of following courses:

• according to courses proposed by partner universities
• according to related research/ special studies project in the concentration

• 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%

• Discussion of manifestoes in Architecture and Urbanism with an explanation of architectural visions, and their reflection in photography and cinema.
• The construction of ideologies and their impact on the making of architecture, discussing the 'making of architecture' from various perspectives, such as political, economical, sociological and cultural.
• Architecture understood as a result of social behaviour, based on perception and cognition, and social observations developed as interactions between internalized archives and structures, and the result of using architecture.

Lectures, seminars.

The module Courses Design Theory II seeks to deepen the theoretical foundations elaborated in the module Theory I for the concentration Design Theory. The topics for the second semester center on issues regarding
the tectonic, urban, and artistic concepts that relate to the theoretical formulation and the making of architecture and the city. Furthermore, aspects of the construction of ideologies and their impact on the making of architecture considering various perspectives, such as political, economical, sociological and cultural will be discussed through the use of historical examples. The introduction of 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, and to foster their ability to consider these issues in their personal design thinking.

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

• An understanding of the critical relation that exists between the products of an epoch and the historical issues that determine it.
• Confidence in analysing these historical examples of architectural buildings and/or urban structures and the ability to infer principles and motivations based on the careful reading of primary and secondary sources.
• An understanding of language as social action and therefore architecture as an act of communication on a social level, considering the models of ontological and existential concepts in their reflections
• Demonstrate the ability to critically assess their personal design practice and projects, and to root them within the contextual frameworks discussed in this course.
• 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 history and theory of architecture.

• 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.

Concepts in Architecture 33%
History of Architecture 2 33%
Cognitive Science for Architects 2 33%