Study year 3

Year 3 (2011/2012)
Practices, Precedents, Profession

The focus in Year 3 is on introducing students to their future profession, how it relates to other associated professions, and understanding its context.

In the third year of study, students are introduced to and explore the discipline of urban planning, and learn to understand and insightfully use the field’s concepts and theories, but also develop the skills to analyze and design high-quality urban planning projects at both the comprehensive and more detailed levels. The students reflect generally and specifically on the city’s global, historical, and cultural role in society. Central to this process are insights into the way various cultures and societal forms give physical shape to their communities through urban development. Students are meant to become aware in particular of the central role the discipline of urban planning plays in promoting sustainable urban and social development.

Through a series of practical assignments, students develop fundamental knowledge about infrastructure, landscape planning, and the planning process and regulations. In lectures and seminars, they learn about urban planning theory and history, and make use of that knowledge in their own work. Students are required to resolve assignments at different scales, from regional to master and site planning, and to integrate their work with individual buildings. They must master digital tools, and receive particular training in the ability to judiciously employ various presentation techniques. Students must demonstrate the ability to work both individually and in a group.

Year 3 concludes with an advanced bachelor’s degree project. In this project, students must demonstrate well-developed knowledge of and skills in the architectural profession’s core expertise of architectural design and its technical, functional, and aesthetic dimensions, from urban planning to the details of an individual building. They must show that they can apply this knowledge in a concrete and compound architectural project and make a critical argument for and reflect on their work. This project marks the conclusion of the bachelor’s degree program and the urban planning year with a complex assignment that spans from a comprehensive urban perspective to individual building details, thus defining the architect’s primary field of activity.

Mandatory	Appl.code	cr.	Period
			1	2	3	4
A31P1A Project Studio 3:1, Urban Design		12.0	2.7	9.3
A31SFA Urban Morphology and Urban Design Theories		6.0	4.0	2.0
A31T1A Architectural Technology 3:1 Building, City, Process		6.0	3.6	2.4
A31H1A History and Theory of Architecture 3:1 World Architecture		6.0	1.8	1.2	3.0
A31REA Representation 3: Processing and Presentation		3.0		3.0
A31P2D Project 3:2 Urban Spaces and Landscapes		6.0
A31H2A History and Theory of Architecture 3:2: Thesis, First Level		3.0			1.8	1.2
A31P3A Architecture: Complex Project (does not lead to Bachelor's degree)		15.0			2.6	12.4
A31T2A Architecture Technology 3:2: Building, City, Process		3.0			0.1	2.9

Conditionally Elective	Appl.code	cr.	Period
			1	2	3	4
1A10KA Degree Project in Architecture (Bachelor of Science) For Bachelor degree students (alt)		15.0			2.6	12.4
A31KAX Degree Project in Architecture, First Level For Bachelor degree students (alt)		15.0			2.6	12.4

Optional	Appl.code	cr.	Period
			1	2	3	4
A31RVA Excursion (Spring) not compulsory		3.0				3.0