Waterlooplein 211-213
1011 PG Amsterdam
NL
N 52° 22' 5.13'', E 52° 22' 5.13''
http://www.academyofarchitecture.nl/
Director
The Academy aspires to be a design and research institute that generates solutions and perspectives for the future of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and abroad. It is up to the current and next generation of architects, urban designers, and landscape architects to create spatial conditions for a sustainable and inclusive future. These conditions must reflect on both the climate emergency and the urgency to become nature-positive while at the same time achieving a more inclusive and just society. (R)evolution Planet is the overarching theme for the educational and public program at the academy.
We see a shared responsibility; as designers to put urgent spatial tasks on the public agenda, using the study projects, visions and ideas developed at the Academy. In addition to the educational program, the Academy of Architecture is organizing public debates with designers across various disciplines, and with people from other disciplines including politicians, opinion makers, scientists, policymakers and others. During the forthcoming academic years, the Academy will continue to publish the results of the debates and projects, the ideas, and the possibilities for the future in various ways. With this curriculum in progress, the Academy aims to position itself as a design and research institute that - in response to climate change and the pursuit of an inclusive society - develops solutions and perspectives for the future of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and beyond.
The Academy of Architecture is an internationally oriented educational and research institute where students are trained in the national and international fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture. The key focus within the intensive education is the student's artistic and personal development. The institute is characterised by a high level of expertise, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and experimentation challenges students to look beyond borders and break new ground.
Students study and work simultaneously to become spatial designers and thinkers, with strong roots in practice, as well as critical thinking focused on the future of the respective professions. Architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture courses are offered concurrently and in an interdisciplinary manner to prepare students for integrated and future-focused professional practice, thus paving the way for a transformation of the design professions.
The world around us is constantly changing and at a rapid pace. The new generation of designers faces major, cross-border and wide-ranging questions. The challenges – related to climate change, resource scarcity, energy transition, social inequality and declining biodiversity – are urgent, complex, and also all spatial issues for which answers must be sought now in order to maintain perspective on a sustainable and inclusive future.
Climate Emergency
The academy is a design and research institute that generates solutions and perspectives for the future. The current and next generation of architects, urban designers, and landscape architects must create spatial conditions for a sustainable and inclusive future. These conditions must reflect the climate emergency and the urgency of becoming nature positive while achieving a more inclusive and just society.
We see a shared responsibility; as designers to put urgent spatial tasks on the public agenda, using the study projects, visions and ideas developed at the Academy. In addition to the educational program, the Academy of Architecture is organizing public debates with designers across various disciplines, and with people from other disciplines including politicians, opinion makers, scientists, policy makers and others. During the forthcoming academic years, the Academy will continue to publish the results of the debates and projects, the ideas, and the possibilities for the future in various ways.
For designers, by designers
During your studies, you will spend half your time studying and the other half in the professional field. This concurrent model gives you the opportunity to build a peer network and gain experience in professional practice during your studies. After completing one of the Master's programmes, you will immediately be included in the Dutch Architects Registry, giving an excellent headstart to your career.
Those who graduate from the Academy often remain involved in the degree programme. The student becomes an employer and, on the basis of that position, a lecturer or mentor for a new generation of students. Our 300+ guest tutors are invited based on their expertise in particular subjects. In this way, students are prepared for the current, integrated professional practice that is required in today's world of design.
International and interdisciplinary
The three different Masters within the Academy of Architecture are closely linked. We are a small-scale and personal Academy focused on providing you with space and attention for your development. Interdisciplinary collaborations and regular meetings between students from the three directions are important pillars within the school. This cross-pollination ensures that our students are trained to be both designers and critical thinkers with a broad view of the world and the field.
Working in an international context is becoming increasingly important. The Academy therefore maintains an active international network, with which it exchanges students and teachers on a small scale, and is a member of the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE). The Academy's curriculum includes a good number of international and intercultural elements (guest lectures, design studios, Summer Schools, excursions). Students can acquire international skills by participating in our international programmes and Summer Schools. Landscape Architecture offers an annual joint programme through EMiLA (European Master in Landscape Architecture), including Summer School workshops.
The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture offers students worldwide a Dutch study programme (in English) with a worldly perspective. We are convinced that Dutch design has much to offer the international professional community. Any programme that prepares students for a sustainable career should offer them opportunities to gain first-hand experience with and within a diversity of cultures and circumstances. This will help students develop their own vocabulary and position themselves within the field. Our aim is not only to make students internationally competent, but also internationally fluent in their future practice in architecture, urbanism or landscape architecture.
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Check for the tuition fees at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture the website: www.academyofarchitecture.nl.
Dutch students: 1 May
International students: 1 April
Master in Architecture
Title: Master of Science (MSc)
Because you have already been working during your study, you will gain direct access to the Dutch Architects’ Register (Nederlandse Architectenregister) after obtaining the title Master of Science as an architect. The professional qualifications of architects are automatically recognised in other member states of the EEA.
Master, Urbanism, 4 years, English, 240,
Master in Urbananism
Title: Master of Science (MSc)
Because you have already been working during your study, you will gain direct access to the Dutch Architects’ Register (Nederlandse Architectenregister) after obtaining the title Master of Science as an urban designer. The professional qualifications of architects are automatically recognised in other member states of the EEA.
Master, Landscape Architecture, 4 years, English, 240,
Master in Landscape Architecture
Title: Master of Science (MSc)
Because you have already been working during your study, you will gain direct access to the Dutch Architects’ Register (Nederlandse Architectenregister) after obtaining the title Master of Science as a landscape architect. The professional qualifications of architects are automatically recognised in other member states of the EEA.
All courses are divided into four periods:
– Basic skills (year 1) Students on all three courses get to know the different disciplines by means of a number of design projects, lectures and practical assignments. All activities are centered on the development of the students’ creative powers and analytical thinking.
– Developing professional knowledge (year 2) During this period the students on each course are offered a programme which is aimed at developing professional knowledge of their own discipline.
– Deepening professional knowledge (year 3) This period is designed to further deepen professional knowledge and students are stimulated to establish their own position within their professional field.
– Graduation (year 4) The students conclude their studies by producing an individual design, thereby showing that they are capable of practicing as independent designers in their chosen discipline.
The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture prepares students to practice spatial design as a discipline at the interface of art, science and technology. The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture offers three master courses: Architecture (MSc), Urbanism (MSc) and Landscape Architecture (MSc). Graduates are immediately admitted to the register of architects, urbanists and landscape architects. Architects, urbanists and landscape architects are trained in constant mutual exchange between the disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach is a hallmark of the courses given at the Academy. The master programme combines study and work. Half of the course consists of design education, the other half consists of acquiring work experience through relevant part-time employment.
The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture continuously hosts research programmes in architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture. For the most recent overview, please see https://www.bouwkunst.ahk.nl/en/research/.
