Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Architecture.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

- ...

Objectives

The master architecture focuses on the one hand on the discipline of architecture as a profession, but also on a wide range of cross-curricular profiles in which architecture as a social vision and radical action can be strongly discussed In addition to the substantive and domain-specific deepening of the basic knowledge, skills and attitudes from the bachelor, the master leads to the professional field, or to further study and research.

Program-specific learning outcomes:

The graduated master of architecture ...

Has insight into context analysis, concept formation, problem sensitivity and engagement, ethics and personal imagination

• He / she is able to reflect on current and innovative architectural-theoretical perspectives.
• He / she can critically situate a complex (architectural) design.
• He / she can generate alternatives from a multidisciplinary and intercultural insight.
• He / she can use designs as a mediating medium.
• He / she can reason and reason critically about the dynamic relationship between theory formation and practice.
• He / she is able to reason and reason critically about the position of his design within the current international architecture discourse.

Is able to formulate his own research or project strategy and to work independently and methodologically in a creative design process.

Can develop a structural design strategy on a complex case.

• He / she is able to reason in a problem solving manner regarding construction.
• He / she has advanced knowledge and understanding of fundamental differentiations in structure.

Can analyse professional, economic and legal mechanisms in concrete cases.

• He / she has knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of business management.
• He / she has knowledge of and insight into the basic deontological principles.
• He / she has knowledge of and insight into administrative procedures specific to architectural practice.

Can generate an innovative and research-based design

• based on a conceptual-programmatic logic.
• taking into account different spatial levels and the dimension of time.
• based on the concern for comfort quality and sustainability awareness.
• from the point of view of fire safety, acoustics and other physical factors.
• based on an analysis of complex cultural and social contexts.

Can communicate his research graphically and orally in a personal way from an artistic-architectural perspective.

• He / she uses visual and graphic skills correctly and expressively in his design process.
• He / she can communicate the results of his design and research to a wide range of stakeholders (international, cross-disciplinary,…).

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blauwdruk_MA_Architectuur_Architecture.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
Cobra-fiche_MA_Architecture.pdf

COBRA 2015-2019
COBRA-report_MA_Architecture.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents