MSc in Architecture

Programme overview

The world is rapidly changing, thus offering new challenges for architecture. These challenges concern everything from the densification of cities and sustainability to new technologies and how they affect the way we design and build. Lund University, located in the dynamic Copenhagen–Malmö region, is well known for its competence and knowledge and offers superb resources for studying these matters in a broader context. The programme combines best practice with advanced research, thus educating students to become highly skilled professionals who are competitive at an international level.

Teaching contains both theoretical and hands-on projects aiming to find future-focused solutions to real-world issues. The programme features international collaboration as well as locally active professionals. The process of working/learning consists of a mixture of workshops, critiques, tutorials with invited guests (both international and local) and longer projects that will be exhibited to a public audience.

The objectives of the Master’s programme in Architecture are:

• to offer a broad education in architecture with possible specialisation within two main fields.
• to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to act successfully within a challenging future shaped by internationalisation, change and emerging technologies.

Programme structure

The Master’s programme in Architecture is divided into two different specialisations: Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) and Spatial Experiment (Architecture and Digital Process), in short SE, each leading to an MSc in Architecture.

For both specialisations, the first two semesters will constitute a common platform within the focus area.

• SE: compulsory design studio Spatial Experiments I and II (15 credits+7.5 credits each semester) and Creative Tools (7.5 credits).
• AAD: compulsory design studio Advanced Architectural Design I and II (15+7.5 each semester) and Architecture, Materials and Details I (7.5 credits).

Additionally, students select one elective/mandatory elective course (7.5 credits).

Semester three

• SE: compulsory Advanced Architectural Design I (15 credits+7.5 credits).
• AAD: compulsory Spatial Experiments I (15 credits+7.5 credits) or Sustainable Urban Dynamics (15 credits+7.5 credits).

Additionally, students select one elective/mandatory elective course (7.5 credits).

Semester four

• SE and AAD: Degree Project (30 credits) executed within the chosen specialisation.

Study trips, inventories, surveying, environmental studies etc. are integrated into the programme. These trips are optional, and all students participate at their own expense. Students who cannot participate will be given alternative assignments in Lund. Each specialisation has its own line of study trips and destinations may vary from year to year. Previous destinations include Great Britain, The Netherlands, Germany, USA (NASA), Japan and Morocco. Study trips may be subject to cancellation/alteration due to unforeseeable circumstances.

Career prospects

After graduating from the programme, you will have the required skills to practise as an architect on a global market. You will be up to date in terms of theory, practice and tools at an advanced level. Your competence will enable you to engage professionally both on a private and public level. During the course of your studies, you will have the opportunity to meet practitioners from the local and regional scene, both to present your own work in reviews and exhibitions and to get to know their work and culture through lectures and study visits.

Our alumni often go on to jobs and internships both in the region, particularly Copenhagen, Malmö and Stockholm, and internationally. The future-focused nature of the programme will make you especially attractive on the market, by preparing you to be an architect capable of finding innovative ways of approaching the projects of tomorrow.