Architecture (Brussels), M.Sc.

About

The Master of Architecture programme (Brussels) explores the subject from a research-by-design and design-by-research perspective. The programme combines an academic approach with a creative experimental approach, and you will be fully prepared for the multicultural and international context of your chosen career.

The Master of Architecture programme is organised at both of the faculty's campuses in Brussels and Ghent, though each campus offers a different orientation:

• Campus Brussels - Architecture: Urban Projects, Urban Cultures

• Campus Ghent - Architecture: Resilient and Sustainable Strategies

Programme outline

This Master's programme consists of a minimum of four semesters, and is organised at faculty's campuses in Ghent and in Brussels.

Based on a highly interdisciplinary learning process of integrated research and ‘research by design’, students are expected to determine a critical stance on current issues with emphasis on facilitating, making and imagining, leading to relevant spatial interventions. 

The learning environment is constructed out of four engagements: 

• Urban Cultures
• Craftsmanship
• Mediating Tactics
• Legacies

Based on four programmes, students, faculty staff and alumni can join on-site traineeship and internship programmes, conduct on-site research, and join local academic or professional events.

Strengths

This programme opens the doors to a network of cooperative associations with professionals and universities worldwide and strives to leverage this international network for students' benefit. Other benefits are:

• The faculty's activities are extensive and diversified: students and staff exchange knowledge on a European and intercontinental level. The faculty continues to build on its tradition of academic integration of teaching and research to maintain its high standard of quality.
• The faculty takes its international dimension as the basis for its own quality assessment.
• The teaching staff is a mix of academics and architects with an exemplary practice, including many leading international architects and researchers.

Career perspectives

Graduates are trained to lead multidisciplinary teams of engineers, interior architects, landscape architects and artists. In addition to working as independent (self-employed) architects, graduates also work as professionals in government agencies and international design firms worldwide. Many graduates go onto roles as researchers, serving local or international governance bodies, NGO's or other institutes.

Questions about student life in Belgium, life at KU Leuven or more information about a specific course? Chat with our students: www.kuleuven/be/chatwithourstudents.