Lifelong Learning Master's Degree in Advanced Architecture I

Presentation

IAAC’s Master in Advanced Architecture (1 or 2-year program) revolutionizes current architectural approaches. By training professionals to take informed, creative and innovative actions, the program encourages them to become changemakers and pioneers in the arena of architecture and the built environment. Based on a Learning by Doing and a Design by Research methodologies the Master in Advanced Architecture nurtures critical thinking, ingenuity and the materialization of ideas.
The programme offers a diversity of high-end content in Design Studios ranging from urban scale to building, material and wearable devices scale.
The seminars and workshops offered by the programme aim to enhance the technical, computational and digital fabrication skills of new professionals that are able to work in the architectural field learning from advancements from computer science, advanced manufacturing, synthetic biology, or material science and ecology.

The Master in Advanced Architecture methodology connects our students with exceptional international practitioners, industries and institutions that are part of the program’s faculty body and part of its collaborative entities.
The MAA counts with more than 60 international faculty and more than 20 collaborative industries and institutions. At the same time, the program participates in a series of European funded research projects giving the students the opportunity to be professionally integrated into high-end practices and research entities in the fields of advanced computational design, digital fabrication, zero emissions architecture or self sufficient and intelligent design.

Furthermore, the program prepares students for an entrepreneurial approach to architectural thinking and practice, thus, with the support of IAAC, students have the possibility to create their own practices in the above mentioned fields.

Once successfully finished the master, IAAC students join the IAAC Alumni Community – an active and dynamic network of visionary professionals distributed all around the world, promoting principles and applications of Advanced Architecture, exploring new academic and research initiatives, leading award-winning practices and working for internationally acclaimed firms and institutions.

Coordinators and teaching staff