• Einführung in die Prinzipen des Bauens und Konstruierens sowie der dabei angewendeten Baustoffe und Arbeitsvorgänge im Hinblick auf den Entwurf eines einfachen Gebäudes,.
• Auf ein ganzheitliches Verständnis ausgerichtete Grundlagen der Baukonstruktion und Baumaterialien, der Bauphysik (Wärme- und Feuchteschutz, Schallschutz und Raumakustik) sowie der Festigkeitslehre (Eigenschaften und Leistungsmerkmale der Baustoffe).

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

Aufbauend auf im Modul Bautechnik I erworbenen Kenntnissen steht im Zentrum die Schaffung grundlegender Kenntnisse der Prinzipen des Bauens und Konstruierens sowie der dabei angewendeten Baustoffe und Arbeitsvorgänge im Hinblick auf den Entwurf eines einfachen Gebäudes bei dem die Wahl der Konstruktion und der Baustoffe zur Qualität und zum Charakter des Projekts beiträgt.
Es sollen die notwendigen Kenntnisse erarbeitet werden um die Beschaffenheit eines für den Menschen behaglichen Innenraumklimas und deren Konsequenzen für den architektonischen Entwurf zu verstehen.
Die Studierenden werden dazu ermutigt Verantwortung für ihr Lernen zu tragen und die Fähigkeit zu erlangen sich in ihrem Studiengang zurechtzufinden und sich selbst zu organisieren.

Die Studierenden verfügen am Ende des Moduls über:

• Ein Bewusstsein der bautechnischen Inhalte und Zusammenhänge einfacher Gebäude.
• Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Anforderungen an- und des Verhaltens von Gebäuden.
• Ein Bewusstsein der Auswirkungen des Bauens auf Mensch und Umwelt.
• Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Baukonstruktion, der Baustoffe und der Festigkeitslehre sowie die Fähigkeit diese in kohärenten Entwurfsprojekten anzuwenden.
• Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Bautechnik um die Beschaffenheit eines für den Menschen behaglichen Innenraumklimas und deren Konsequenzen für den architektonischen Entwurf zu verstehen.
• Die Fertigkeit den konstruktiven Aufbau von Bauteilen im Mst. 1:10 darzustellen.
• Angemessene Fähigkeiten im Umgang mit Zeit- und physischen Ressourcen, in Bezug auf vorgegebene Projektaufgaben sowohl als Einzelperson als auch als Mitglied einer Gruppe.
• Die Fähigkeit Ideen, Informationen und eigene Projektarbeiten verständlich in visueller, mündlicher und schriftlicher Form darzustellen.
• Die Fähigkeit, ihren Kollegen und Lehrern komplexe Ideen in einer gut strukturierten und kohärenten Form mitzuteilen.
• Die Kompetenz die Disziplin betreffende Argumente, Informationen und Ideen vortragen und bewerten zu können.

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 2 33%
Tragwerkslehre 2 33%
Bauphysik 2 33%

• 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

According to partner university and country

• 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%

• 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

According to partner university and country

• 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

According to partner university and country

• 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%

• 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%

• In der Architekturgeschichte werden die historiographischen Grundlagen zur Methodik und zum Stellenwert der Geschichte der Architektur, sowie eines ersten geschichtlichen Überblicks mittels exemplarischen Bauten aus der griechischen und römischen Antike bis zur Renaissance vermittelt.
• Im Bildnerischen Gestalten 1 wird das Üben von Freihandzeichnen von Gegenständen, anorganischen und organischen Objekten gefördert. Zudem wird das visuelle Protokollieren von Gegenständen, Räumen und Zwischenräumen durch Freihandzeichnungen eingeführt. Dieses wird auch in den Lehrveranstaltungen Bildnerisches Gestalten 2, 3 und 4 fortgesetzt.
• In CAD und Multimedia wird das Konstruieren und Modellieren mit CAD in 2D und 3D, die Visualisierung von Modellen in 3D und die digitale Bildbearbeitung erklärt und in Übungen praktisch erprobt.

Vorlesung, Seminar und Übung

In den Modulen Theorie I und Theorie II sollen die Grundlagen für das weitere Studium der Geschichte und der Theorie der Architektur und Kunst, das Bildnerische Gestalten und des architektonischen Entwerfens gelegt werden.

In der Architekturgeschichte sollen die Relevanz von Geschichte, die historiographischen Methoden und entscheidende Momente des geschichtlichen Geschehens von der Antike bis zur Renaissance exemplarisch erwähnt werden. Es wird ein gesamtheitliches Verständnis von Geschichte angestrebt. Das Studium dieser historischen Beispiele soll durch das Lesen von standardisierten Darstellungen aus der Architektur, in Plan, Schnitt und Aufriss erfolgen.
Im Bildnerischen Gestalten und CAD und Multimedia soll das Kennenlernen von häufig verwendeten Darstellungsmethoden und -Medien in der Architektur und im Bauwesen gefördert werden. Die Studierenden sollen, durch die Vermittlung von darstellerischen Methoden und Medien aus dem analogen und aus dem digitalen Bereich, lernen das eigene architektonische Denken im Entwurfsprozess zu externalisieren und für Dritte verständlich zu machen.

Die Studierenden verfügen am Ende des Moduls über:

• Grundlegende Kenntnisse aus der Geschichte der Architektur aus der Antike bis zur Renaissance.
• Kenntnis von kanonischen Beispielen aus der Antike bis Anfang Renaissance und können daraus die wichtigsten gestalterischen Grundsätze dieser Epochen nennen und beschreiben und sie in einen gesamtheitlichen, geschichtlichen Zusammenhang stellen.
• Praktischen Umgang mit der Skizze und Freihandzeichnen und kennen deren Möglichkeiten als Abstraktion und Synthese und können ihre eigenen Ideen und Vorstellungen grafisch festhalten.
• Kenntnis der Grundlagen der perspektivischen Darstellung im Analogen wie auch im Digitalen.
• Praktischen Umgang mit den gängigen CAD Programmen und können mit diesen Modelle in 2D sowie 3D erstellen, diese visualisieren und in Bild und Video erfassen.

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:

Architekturgeschichte 1 33%
Bildnerisches Gestalten 1 33%
CAD und Multimedia 33%

• In der Architekturgeschichte wird Italien zur Zeit der Renaissance und des Barocks und Paris zur Zeit des Barocks bis zur Gegenwart diskutiert.
• In den Grundlagen des Städtebaus werden die wichtigsten Inhalte aus den städtebaulichen Begriffen über Dichte, Mischung und Öffentlichkeit, über Bauensemble und Freiraum, sowie über menschliche Hintergründe und Vernetzungen eingeführt.
• Im Bildnerischen Gestalten 3 wird das Verstehen verschiedener plastischer und methodischer Ansätze anhand einer formalen und inhaltlichen Aufgabestellung gefördert, die vernetzt werden durch Bild- und Textbeispiele aus der Kunst und den Wissenschaften.

Vorlesung, Seminar und Übung

In den Modulen Theorie III und Theorie IV sollen die Grundlagen für das weitere Studium der Geschichte und der Theorie der Architektur und Kunst und das Bildnerische Gestalten vertieft werden. Diese Grundlagen sollen um die wichtigsten Aspekte von Städtebau und Stadtplanung nach Inhalt, Geschichte, Theorie und Methode erweitert werden.

In der Architekturgeschichte soll die Architektur und der Städtebau in Italien zur Zeit der Renaissance und des Barocks und in Frankreich (Paris) zur Zeit des Barocks bis zur Gegenwart diskutiert werden. Es wird, aufbauend auf die Module Theorie I und II, ein gesamtheitliches Verständnis von Geschichte angestrebt das auch als Grundlage für die anderen Lehrveranstaltungen dieses Moduls dienen soll.
Dieses historische Verständnis soll mit einer ersten Einführung in die Grundlagen des modernen Städtebaus bereichert werden. Es soll den Studierenden geholfen werden den urbanen Stadtraum als historisch gewachsener Komplex zu verstehen der modernen Anforderungen genügen muss.
Den Studierenden soll durch das plastische Gestalten einen direkten Zugang zur Dreidimensionalität des architektonischen und urbanen Raums ermöglicht werden. Es soll ihnen das Verständnis von Proportionen, Relationen und Massstäben ermöglichen und ihnen neue Möglichkeiten für den persönlichen Entwurfsunterricht eröffnen.

Die Studierenden verfügen am Ende des Moduls über:

• Kenntnisse aus der Geschichte der Architektur und Städtebau von der Renaissance, Barocks bis zur Gegenwart in Italien und Frankreich. Sie können wichtige historische Beispiele aus diesen Epochen in Verbindung bringen mit den Prinzipien und baulichen Beispielen aus der Antike bis zur Frührenaissance. Sie haben Kenntnis einzelner Beispiele städtebaulicher Projekte aus diesen Epochen sowie der Gegenwart.
• Kompetenzen in der Anwendung städtebaulicher Grundbegriffe in Theorie und Entwurf.
• Verständnis für die Bedeutung von Volumina, Ansichtigkeit und Gerichtetheit in Architektur, Urbanismus und Kunst und können bewusst gemäss diesen Gestaltungsprinzipien positive Formen des Körpers und Negativ-Formen gestalten, unter bewusster Berücksichtigung von Proportionen, Massverhältnisse, Rhythmus und Kontraste.

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:

Architekturgeschichte 2 33%
Grundlagen des Städtebaus 33%
Bildnerisches Gestalten 3 33%