Architecture

Programme is created in cooperation with Bahcesehir university.

Degree awarded: Bachelor's Degree in Architecture
Professional qualification: Architect
Language of instruction: English


This is a four year programme (eight semester) granting Bachelor`s of Architecture degree. The education focuses on five fields of concentration:

Architectural Design
History, Theory and Criticism
Building Technology and Science
Structures
Media Studies

The curriculum aims to integrate the knowledge of all these diverse, yet complementing domains. The main aspiration is to provide students with the ability of analytical thinking and problem solving: granting the knowledge, intellectual capacity and practical skills of interrelating apparently separate domains of architectural realm of theory and practice.
The successive years of the curriculum built up on one another in Architectural Design studies. Each academic year, the curriculum aims to explore consequently more complex issues and scales of design problems as such:

Principles of design
Private space and dwelling
Public space and place-making
Urban space and urban regeneration

Year One
Introduction to archıtectural design
Mathematics (calculus)
Introduction to architectural structural systems
Interior design
Basics of building technologies
Basics of work safety
Building technologies and practices
Cıvıl protectıon
Communication psychology
Academic report writing
Computer media in architecture
Economics
Introduction to architectural culture
Introduction to computer graphics
History of art, architecture and urban design i
Study practice

Year Two
Computer applications ın design
Architectural design
Construction physics and building climate control
Buıldıng science and application
Buıldıng technologies and practices ıı
Architectural structures i (statics)
Landscape architecture
Ethics and social responsibility in architecture
History of art, architecture and urban design ii
history of urban design
Architectural histography
Project and construction management
Study practice

Year Three
Architectural design ııı
Architectural theory and criticism
Building science and application
Advanced structural systems
Studies in Baltic architecture and landscape
Computer applications in design
Cultural heritage
Urban design
Basics of legal aspects
Digital design
Basics of sociology
Professional practice
Management of organisaitons

Year Four
Architectural design
Architectural theory and criticism
Integrated structural systems
Advanced structural systems
Professional practice
Bachelor thesis