• 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.

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

Lectures, seminars.

The module Electives Sustainable Design I seeks to establish complementary knowledge and integrative understanding for the concentration Sustainable Design. 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.

• 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
• 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 I
• Recent developments in urban planning and landscape policy and practice
• Guest lecturers and professors coming from an international context teaching alternating contents as compact projects, which complement the regular
• Projects Studios Design UrbanScape 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.

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 Design UrbanScape I 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 I relocates the role and the potentials of architecture in the contemporary spatial realities.

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 UrbanScape 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 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 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 UrbanScape 1 82%
• Compact Project Design UrbanScape 1 18%

• 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%

• 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

• 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

• 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 Master-Thesis Sustainable Design seeks to establish the theoretical and professional frame to an integrated, intellectual 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.
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 Sustainable Design.

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 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 Sustainable Design 100%

• Vertiefung von Prinzipien und Methoden der Baukonstruktion und des Tragwerksentwurfs ausgehend von ausgewählten Baustoffen, deren tektonischen Eigenschaften und des davon hervorgebrachten architektonischen Ausdrucks.
• Prinzipien und Methoden der Organisation und Abwicklung von Planungs- und Bauprozessen im Hinblick auf das Tätigkeitsfeld eines Projektleiters.
• Die Lehrinhalte der angebotenen Wahlfächer sind in den Beschreibungen der entsprechenden Lehrveranstaltungen aufgeführt.

• Vorlesungen mit anschliessendem Übungsteil.
• Besichtigung von Baustellen und Bauwerken.

Aufbauend auf in den Modulen Bautechnik I - IV erworbenen Kenntnissen steht im Zentrum das Hervorbringen der Fähigkeit Bauwerke und deren Verhalten in Bezug auf eine Palette von sozialen, ökonomischen und physischen Kriterien zu beurteilen und zu kommentieren, als auch deren architektonische Bedeutung zu identifizieren und zu erklären.
Es soll ein fundiertes Verständnis der Baukonstruktion geschaffen werden das sich in der Fähigkeit widerspiegelt, im Rahmen einer integrativen Entwurfsarbeit Strategien für die Wahl der Konstruktion, der Baustoffe und der Bauprozesse zu entwickeln und einzusetzen.
Wahlfächer aus dem Bereich Bautechnik sollen die Kenntnisse der Studierenden spezifisch vertiefen.

Die Studierenden verfügen am Ende des Moduls über:

• Ein kritisches Verständnis der bautechnischen Inhalte und Zusammenhänge von Gebäuden.
• Ein kritisches Verständnis der Anforderungen an- und des Verhaltens von Gebäuden.
• Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Planungs- und Bauprozesse.
• Ganzheitliche Kenntnisse der Baukonstruktion, der Baustoffe, der Planungs- und Bauprozesse sowie die Fähigkeit deren Integration in einem kohärenten Entwurfsprojekt das architektonische Absichten sowie Aussagen zu einer nachhaltigen Umwelt zum Ausdruck bringt.
• Die Fähigkeit eine Vielzahl von Vorgaben und Informationen zu verarbeiten, zu bündeln, zu interpretieren sowie innerhalb des Entwurfsprozesses ausführungsrelevant einzusetzen.
• Ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Zusammenarbeit mit Kollegen um Entwurfsideen zu entwickeln.
• Die Fähigkeit komplexe Informationen verschiedenen Zielgruppen und mit verschiedenen Zielsetzungen mitzuteilen.
• Die Fähigkeit kritische Analysen sowie Bewertungen und Synthesen von Ideen, Konzepten, Informationen und für die Disziplin der Architektur relevanten Belangen anzustellen.
• Die Fähigkeit bei der Bildung eines Urteils auf verschiedene Quellen zurückzugreifen.

Die Prüfung der Lernergebnisse erfolgt separat in den einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen (schriftliche Prüfungen, benotete Übungen oder Arbeiten).

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:

Baukonstruktion 5 33%
Planungs- und Bauprozesse 1 33%
Wahlfach Bautechnik 1 33%
(Bauökologie oder Tektonik)

• Das Modul beschreibt ausgewählte Prinzipien und Methoden der Baukonstruktion und des Tragwerksentwurfs mit dem Verhalten und der Leistungsfähigkeit von Bauteilen und Tragwerkskomponenten als Schwerpunkt sowie Fragen der Nachhaltigkeit.
• Einführung in die Prinzipien, Theorien und die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Haustechnik. Analyse der Prinzipien die der Auswahl und dem Entwurf von Haustechniksystemen zugrunde liegen, ausgerichtet auf energie-effizientes integratives Entwerfen.

• Vorlesungen mit anschliessendem Übungsteil.
• Besichtigung von Baustellen und Bauwerken.

IAufbauend auf in den Modulen Bautechnik I und II erworbenen Kenntnissen steht im Zentrum die Schaffung ganzheitlicher Kenntnisse der Baukonstruktion, der Tragsysteme, der Materialwahl und der Erzeugung eines für den Menschen behaglichen Raumklimas sowie der Fähigkeit deren Zusammenführung in einem kohärenten Entwurfsprojekt, das architektonische Absichten zum Ausdruck bringt.
Ziel ist der Aufbau von Wissen über Baukonstruktion, Tragwerk, Klima- und Serviceintegration für komplexere und mehrgeschossige Gebäude sowie die Befähigung, dieses Wissen mit architektonischen Absichten zu verknüpfen.

Die Studierenden verfügen am Ende des Moduls über:

• Ganzheitliche Kenntnisse der bautechnischen Inhalte und Zusammenhänge von Gebäuden.
• Vertiefte Kenntnisse der Anforderungen an- und des Verhaltens von Gebäuden.
• Ein Bewusstsein der Möglichkeiten eines nachhaltigen Umgangs mit Ressourcen.
• Ganzheitliche Kenntnisse der Baukonstruktion, der Baustoffe, der Tragwerkslehre und der Erzeugung eines für den Menschen behaglichen Raumklimas sowie die Fähigkeit deren Zusammenführung in einem kohärenten Entwurfsprojekt, das architektonische Absichten zum Ausdruck bringt.
• Selbständigkeit, Initiative und Unabhängigkeit bei der Umsetzung von vorgegebenen Projektaufgaben.
• Die Fähigkeit Ideen, Informationen und eigene Projektarbeiten auf klare und präzise Weise in visueller, mündlicher und schriftlicher Form darzustellen und zu artikulieren.
• Die Fähigkeit, verschiedenen Zielgruppen komplexe Informationen mit verschiedenen Zielsetzungen mitzuteilen.
• Kritische Beurteilung von fachlich fundierten Aussagen zu bestimmten Problemen.

Die Prüfung der Lernergebnisse erfolgt separat in den einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen (schriftliche Prüfungen, benotete Übungen oder Arbeiten).

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:

Baukonstruktion 3 33%
Tragwerkslehre 3 33%
Haustechnik 1 33%