Hello Wade,

I may not be the best person to answer these questions as I am still in my undergraduate degree, but I am also very interested in ITECH. I come from an engineering background, mechanical draftsman/amateur engineer throughout my teens, this is what drew me to ITECH as I am quite technical in my methods and rely on computation quiet heavily. Due to the fact that you are not technical seems to be a fairly large problem as ITECH is a mash of engineering, computation, and research applied to architectural design. Your application is simple graded from 0 to 100 points (having a BSArch or BArch 20 points, 1 point for every ten class you had a 3.0+, sample work 0 to 30 points, and the list goes on). 70+ points puts you in the second round which is to my knowledge an interview for international applicants. The German language concern is not needed as ITECH does not ask for German proficiency at all and UoS does not require it for any English taught masters programs, and Mathematics exams and others are only need if the admissions committee deems your undergraduate degree as insufficient this is stated in the admissions regulation papers (which are in German and are course specific). From ITECH you work as a researcher in academia or for a group like BRG, Zaha Code, or some group like them. For your portfolio do you have any strong conceptual work using methods taught at ITECH like processing, grasshopper, etc. that in my opinion would be better than any uni or professional work that is simply a building. Even though it seems like it may not fit you perfectly why not try, and out of the other schools mentioned IAAC would be my next choice if I wanted to be in the EU the US has some options like Michigan (more art stuff imo), CMU, and a few others. I hope this helped a little bit. Best of luck

-Seth Louis Zimmerman                  

Hello Seth,

would you please tell me the full grading criteria for Itech program. It will help me to prepare myself for the program. Thanks in advance.