Master's Programme Architecture

Requirements

Relevant bachelor's degrees at the University of Innsbruck:

• Bachelor's Programme Architecture 

Criteria for the determination of equalence:

Admission to the master's degree programme may also be possible if a student has completed a bachelor's degree in a relevant related field. As part of the determination of equivalence, the following core areas of the completed bachelor's degree programme will be assessed:

• 60.0 ECTS-Credits Core Area: Design Studio and Design
• 10.0 ECTS-Credits Core Area: History and Theory
• 20.0 ECTS-Credits Core Area: Construction, Materil, Technology
• 10.0 ECTS-Credits Core Area: Urban Design and Landscape Architecture
• 10.0 ECTS-Credits Core Area: Art and Culture
• 10.0 ECTS-Credits Core Area: Digital and Analog Architectural Representation
• gital and Analog Architectural Representation

In the event that equivalence has been established in principle but with certain qualifications missing for full equivalence, supplemental examinations may be required. These examinations must be completed during the master degree programme.

Recommended Course Sequence

The exemplary course sequence given below is recommended for full-time students beginning their study programme in the winter semester. The table shows one possible course sequence for the bachelor's programme and is not compulsory. Delays resulting from repeated examinations are not taken into account.

The standard duration of the study programme is 4 semesters or 120 ECTS-Credits, whereby according to the Universities Act of 2002, a workload of 1,500 (real) hours per academic year must be fulfilled, corresponding to 60 ECTS-Credits (one ECTS-Credit is equivalent to a workload of 25 hours).

First Semester

5.0 ECTS-Credits: Lectures in Architecture
12.5 ECTS-Credits: Building Construction M
5.0 ECTS-Credits: Advanced Studies 1 ⁽¹⁾
7.5 ECTS-Credits: Advanced Studies 2 ⁽¹⁾

Second Semester

5.0 ECTS-Credits: Lectures in Architecture and Urban Construction
10.5 ECTS-Credits: Design Studio M1
7.5 ECTS-Credits: Elective Module
7.5 ECTS-Credits: Elective Module

Third Semester

12.5 ECTS-Credits: Design Studio M2
10.5 ECTS-Credits: Advanced Studies 3 ⁽¹⁾
10.0 ECTS-Credits: Master‘s Thesis › continue fourth semester

Fourth Semester

20.0 ECTS-Credits: Master's Thesis
7.5 ECTS-Credits: Elective Module
2.5 ECTS-Credits: Master's  Thesis Defence

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Elecitve Modules M11 until M19

7.5 ECTS-Credits: M11 Architectural Theory (Master Course)
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M12 Architectural History and Building Research
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M13 Intelligent Buildings
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M14 Methods and Processes
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M15 City and Landscape
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M16 Design Research
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M17 Concepts of Spatial Design
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M18 Interior Space and Design
7.5 ECTS-Credits: M19 Architecture and Experiment

(1) Three compulsory intensifying modules must be completed worth a total of 20 ECTS-Credits from M20 to M22.

Supplementary Programme Programme

Within the scope of the Study Programme, a Supplementary Programme corresponding to 45 ECTS-Credits or 60 ECTS-Credits may be passed. Admission to the Supplementary Programme requires the admission to or the having passed of one of the selected Study Programmes. Detailed information:

• https://www.uibk.ac.at/studium/angebot/es-entrepreneurship/
• https://www.uibk.ac.at/studium/angebot/es-informatik/

Information about examination regulations, assessment and grading

Examination regulations

The examination regulation is an integral part of the curriculum, detailed information can be found under the paragraph examination regulations.

Forms (in German only)

• Examination Records
• Application for the Master's Thesis
  Please enclose a 1-page exposé, in which contents and methods of the planned master's thesis are briefly presented.
  Content Exposè: To be attached to the application for the master thesis is an abstract in which the planned master thesis is briefly outlined and the architectural focus is clearly formulated. Indicate whether it is a theoretical work or a design/project/installation. Further information: bibliography (5 most important works) in the case of theoretical/scientific work, or reference projects/reference buildings (5 most important) in the case of project work.
• Application for the Final Examination
• Recognition of exams AND Supplementary Sheet
• Cover Sheet of the Master's Thesis
• Declaration of Academic Honesty
• To block the Master's Thesis
• Application for Admission to the third and fourth repetition of a course examination

Equivalence Lists

• Equivalence List Architecture

Contact and Information

Examination Office
Standort Technikerstraße 17

Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Karolin Elisabeth Schmidbaur

Information about the Programme (in German only)

• Guidelines for electronic submission and publication of academic theses and Instruction