• 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%

• Grundmodelle von Entrepreneurship.
• Unternehmerin, Unternehmer und Unternehmensgründung.
• Prozess der Unternehmensgründung.
• Unternehmensgründung und Unternehmensentwicklung.
• Entrepreneurship als wissenschaftliche Disziplin.

• Unternehmer und Unternehmerteams.
• Homogenität und Heterogenität von Unternehmerteams.
• Unternehmerteams in der Unternehmensentwicklung.

• 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 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.

• The practice of building physics focussing the interaction between building envelope and building services.
• Studies of Building Services and Technologies imparting knowledge of technologies that allow controlling and optimizing energy flows within a building.
• Material Sciences offering the basis for construction of an intelligent building envelope.

Lecture, seminar

The module Courses Sustainable Design II seeks to establish the theoretical foundations for the concentration Sustainable Design. The topics of the courses center on the issues of sustainable building defined through an optimised energy balance during the entire life cycle of a building.
The aim is to provide students with with the necessary knowledge of the caracteristics of buildings with minimal operating energy based on a well balanced rapport between their skin and building services and technologies (heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration) as well as of grey energy and recycling as integral components within planning.

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

• Knowledge that covers and integrates specific principles and methods of building technology centered on the issues of sustainable building defined through an optimised energy balance during the entire life cycle of a building.
• A critical understanding of the intellectual, aesthetic and tecnological content of self-selected buildings that supports architectural judgement.
• Researched and critical evaluation of the briefing and performance of buildings.
• A researched and integrated knowledge of of the caracteristics of buildings with minimal operating energy based on a well balanced rapport between their skin and building services and technologies (heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration) as well as of grey energy and recycling as integral components within planning, applicable in coherent design projects that express architectural intentions and considerations of a sustainable environment.
• 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.
• Research and critical evaluation of how a strategic choice of construction, materials and environmental approaches can determine the character of an architectural design project.
• Critically identify, define, conceptualise and analyse complex problems and issues relevant to the contemporary discipline of architecture.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and informations fluently in english language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and 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.

• Written examination of the learning outcomes of the course

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 2 33%
Building Mechanical Systems 2 33%
Material Technology 2 33%

• Practical training is an integral part of the curriculum and is supervised by the school's PSA. Students complete their practical training gradually, block by block, during time periods with no lectures.
• Students develop methods and approaches indicating how to apply theoretical knowledge in a practical context
• Students collaborate as members of project groups and work towards the solution of given problems

The Internship / practical training periods are to be carried out in architectural firms under supervision of professional staff of the office.

The module Internship / practical training seeks to allow students to gain deeper insights and practical training in relevant areas of professional practice. The module shall enable students to further their theoretical knowledge, corresponding to their educational level, with practical work in an architectural firm, covering various aspects and parts of projects. The complexity of the projects and the students' contributions shall correspond to the students' educational levels in the MSc Degree-Program.

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

• The fundamental knowledge of practical implementation of theoretical approaches in architecture
• An understanding of the complexity of translating design intentions into physical buildings or urban situations
• The ability to work as members of interdisciplinary teams in architectural firms and to work towards the solution of given problems under supervision
• The ability to communicate their work visually, orally and in written form
• An understanding and critical judgement of ideas, informations, and arguments as part of the discourse in the field of architecture and an ability to translate these issues into practice.

• A mandatory meeting with the school's PSA after being accepted for an internship.
• A presentation, with a written description and documentation to be graded by invited experts and the director of the MSc Degree-Program

The student has to submit written proof of the required 320 work hours and all mentione assessments hae to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).

• Presentation 20%
• Content 50%
• Learning progress 30%

(as comparison between beginning and end of the training period)

• Externe Berufspraxis, von der Hochschule begleitet und überwacht.
• Ein verpflichtendes Betreuungsgespräch mit dem Verantwortlichen der Berufspraxis während des Praktikums.
• Präsentation, schriftlicher Bericht und Dokumentation bewertet durch Experten und die Modulleitung (Gesamtaufwand 6 L / 4.5 Stunden).

• Financial Decision Theory
• Capital Market Models and Evaluation on Complete Markets
• Portfolio Management
• Critique of the Expected Utility Theory
• Prospect Theory
• Kinds and Consequences of Heuristic Distortion
• Framing
• Momentum und Contrarian Strategies
• Technical Analysis

Interactive lecture, exercises

After completion of the module, the students are able to evaluate assets by means of various models and to illustrate investment procedure. They thereby draw on current knowledge of capital market research and can show suggestions for solutions while integrating their theoretical knowledge. Events on the capital market are critically scrutinised in discussions with instructors and fellow students.

1 Written exam with 120 minutes editing time

Web-based online evaluation upon completion of module

• Einordnung und Ausgangsbasis der objektorientierten Modellierung
• Objektorientierter Modellierungsprozess
• Ergebnisse der Modellierung
• Techniken zur Modellierung
• Projekt-Aufgabe

• Das Modul beschreibt ausgewählte Prinzipien und Methoden der Baukonstruktion und des Tragwerksentwurfs mit dem Verhalten und der Leistungsfähigkeit von Bauteilen und Tragwerkskomponenten als - Vertiefung der Prinzipien die der Auswahl und dem Entwurf von Haustechniksystemen zugrunde liegen im Hinblick auf deren Integration in den architektonischen Entwurf und die Projektarbeit.

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

Aufbauend auf in den Modulen Bautechnik I, II und III 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 - 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 4 33%
Tragwerkslehre 4 33%
Haustechnik 2 33%

• 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%

• Practical training is an integral part of the curriculum and is supervised by the school's PSA. Students complete their practical training gradually, block by block, during time periods with no lectures.
• Students develop methods and approaches indicating how to apply theoretical knowledge in a practical context
• Students collaborate as members of project groups and work towards the solution of given problems

The Internship / practical training periods are to be carried out in architectural firms under supervision of professional staff of the office.

The module Internship / practical training seeks to allow students to gain deeper insights and practical training in relevant areas of professional practice. The module shall enable students to further their theoretical knowledge, corresponding to their educational level, with practical work in an architectural firm, covering various aspects and parts of projects. The complexity of the projects and the students' contributions shall correspond to the students' educational levels in the MSc Degree-Program.

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

• The fundamental knowledge of practical implementation of theoretical approaches in architecture
• An understanding of the complexity of translating design intentions into physical buildings or urban situations
• The ability to work as members of interdisciplinary teams in architectural firms and to work towards the solution of given problems under supervision
• The ability to communicate their work visually, orally and in written form
• An understanding and critical judgement of ideas, informations, and arguments as part of the discourse in the field of architecture and an ability to translate these issues into practice.

• A mandatory meeting with the school's PSA after being accepted for an internship.
• A presentation, with a written description and documentation to be graded by invited experts and the director of the MSc Degree-Program

The student has to submit written proof of the required 320 work hours and all mentione assessments hae to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).

• Presentation 20%
• Content 50%
• Learning progress 30%

(as comparison between beginning and end of the training period)

The module Internship / Practical Training is composed as follows:

• external practical training periods supervised by the school's Professional Study Advisor (PSA)
• one mandatory meeting with the school's PSA to be held during the internship period
• A presentation, with a written description and documentation to be graded by invited experts and the director of the MSc Degree-Program