The Institute of Architecture (I oA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna/Die Angewandte offers a three-year accredited master’s program (MArch) devoted to experimental and innovative design in architecture and urban practices. The Institute is embedded in an internationally renowned applied arts university that fosters exchange between disciplines, provides state-of-the-art education in the fields of arts and research, and promotes global exchange.

With its international orientation and its profound artistic, technical and discursive educational program, the Institute of Architecture produces critical work and searches for visionary strategies that address the most urgent questions of our time and the near future: What is the role of architecture in regards to contemporary cultures and societies, urbanization processes, identity policies, migration, climate change, environmental challenges, and disruptive technologies? How do we want to live and co-exist? What will our future look like and how will that be manifested spatially, physically and virtually? What role do digital developments and technology play in this? What is the role of architecture in tackling questions on aesthetics and radical beauty?

To create new schemes and visions in education, research and practice that address these challenges, architecture at the Institute of Architecture is taught as an integrative discipline by promoting transdisciplinary project processes and working methods from the very local to the planetary.

Just as there are many areas and niches within architecture and the professional field of architects, the I oA proclaims diversity on all levels, including that of teaching. Consequently, the autonomy of all the Institute’s design studios and departments is crucial and considered to be productive, provoking more critical discourse, projects and dynamics.

Baerbel Mueller
I oA Dean

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APPLICATION

The architectural study at the Angewandte is offered only as a Master Program that takes 6 semesters and finishes with a MArch; teaching language is English.

The central artistic subject is taught in three Design Studios, each with its own specific focus under the direction of renowned architects. The studios focus on the development of conceptual, practical and critical skills and aim to create compelling and future-orientated architecture — within all of its various facets, scales and contexts. Around the central artistic subject, education within the expertise fields of Architectural Science, Theory and Instrumentarium is organized and understood as an integral component and essential extension of design practice.

The integration of technical departments (Building Construction, Energy Design, Structural Design) offers students the opportunity to develop and deepen constructive and structural understanding and technical knowledge while working on their individual projects. In addition, the department of Digital Methods (Digital Production, Digital Simulation) — with its own in-house machinery that is constantly adapted to changing digital developments — provides the framework for acquiring two- and three-dimensional visualization and model-ling techniques, as well as expertise in digital analysis and simulation techniques. Discursive, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented contextualization, as well as theoretical, scientific and artistic reflection are offered in the fields of Theory of Architecture, History of Architecture and Urban and Social Strategies ([applied] Foreign Affairs, Special Topics in Architecture, Urban Strategies).

Each admission to the university depends on the artistic talent of the candidate which is established by a portfolio and a personal interview. The admission is decided by a jury.

Requirement for approval is a Bachelor (BA) in Architecture and evidence of English language skills at level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Your portfolio should include your CV and a motivation letter.

Applicants can only apply to one studio

Further information and advice respectively in each studio:

Studio 1: Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda
Tel. +43 (1) 71133 – 2310
architecturaldesignstudio1@uni-ak.ac.at

Studio 2: Greg Lynn
Tel. +43 (1) 71133 – 2320
studio.lynn@uni-ak.ac.at

Studio 3: Hani Rashid
Tel. +43 (1) 71133 – 2330
studio.rashid@uni-ak.ac.at

Online registration and upload of documents 01.08. – 22.08.2022
Announcement of results of the first round until 31.08.2022
Second round / Interviews 01. – 06.09.2022
Announcement results until 12.09.2022

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