Urbanism
Programme in brief*
FHK MA+U, Tilburg, the Netherlands offers the concurrent Master of Urbanism. This master is collaborative, topical, creative and practice based. While firmly rooted in the Dutch architectural tradition, the program has a strong international orientation. Nowadays, spatial challenges to be confronted by architects are global by nature while still requiring context and location specific solutions. The program’s objective is to educate urbanists who are able at effectively combining design intelligence with a reflective attitude and practical and entrepreneurial skills. The curriculum is competence based and geared towards achieving mastery skills in seven crucial competences (Desgin, Research, Collaboration, Communication, Entrepreneurial skills, Organizing, Professional skills).
What can you expect from us
The educational concept of this Master program is unique; education in concurrency with employment in a professional practice. This concurrent education offers students experience and education beyond the school curriculum, essential to their professional formation as urban designers. Additionally, the Academy itself is a laboratory for spatial assignments from real stakeholders. Our tutors are professionals from a variety of disciplines, but all with a strong relation to practice. The Design Studio is the heart of the master program. In the studio students are trained to apply all kinds of skills and methods towards ever more convincing synthetic design proposals for complex spatial problems. The studio assignments are invariably related to the complexity of contemporary societies and will engage social, cultural, political, economic and technological parameters.
What do we expect from you
The core of the programme is formed by studio work: project learning. Students tackle individually or in small groups a certain ‘problem’ that is embedded in the assignment. The studio work is accompanied by various theoretical courses.
The philosophy of the Academy is based on the principle of study next to working in the day to day practice of an architect's firm.
This concurrent education offers students experience and education beyond the school curriculum, essential to his professional formation as architects or urban designers.
*This is a Part-Time program
Į magistro studijų programas gali stoti visi, baigę universitetą arba besimokantys paskutiniame kurse. Studijos kurias baigei ar tebesimokai turi būti panašios krypties kaip ir tos, į kurias nori stoti, kadangi priėmimas yra paremtas ECTS kreditų suderinamumu.
- ECTS kreditų išrašas - jei dar nesi baigęs aukštosios mokyklos, būtina prisegti ECTS kreditų išrašą, kuriame būtų matyti, kokius dalykus Tu mokeisi bei kokius pažymius ir kiek kreditų už juos gavai. Kai siunti anketą paskutiniame kurse, diplomą reikia prisegti vėliau, kai tik jį gausi.
- Bakalauro diplomas – jei jau esi baigęs aukštąją mokyklą, išrašo nereikia, užtenka prie anketos prisegti savo Bakalauro diplomą.
Anglų kalbos žinias gali patvirtinti vienu iš šių būdų (kokio balo reikalauja tavo pasirinkta programa rasi prie programos stojimo reikalavimų):
- IELTS
- TOEFL
Minimum admission requirements for the Master degree programme:
- Bachelor (B/ BSc) Architecture.
- Bachelor (B) Art Academy (Architectural design/ Interior design)
Applicants are required to:
- work a minimum of 20 hours a week in a relevant practice (Architect’s firm or related).
The Academy offers alternative practice studio’s for students who are temporarily unable to find a regular job. In these alternative practice studio’s students will work on assignments by real stakeholders and will be supervised by practitioners. There is usually no remuneration for participating students.
The course equips you with the knowledge and skills to begin a career in the fast moving world of urban development and planning. It focuses your interest on people’s needs and the communities and environments they live in.
You can develop a specialism that prepares you for an interesting and varied career. There is a national skills shortage in this area and a real need for well-qualified planners to develop towns, cities and regions. Job opportunities in planning are better than they have been for many years.
Planning involves working with architects, housing and transport providers, construction specialists and developers to negotiate the best developments to meet changing needs. Planning in the modern world involves working with community groups and other organisations who are intended beneficiaries of planning actions.
