Postgraduate | basehabitat : Master of Advanced Studies – Architecture (deadline Dec 12, 2023)

Aware of the global challenges we face, ranging from environmental destruction and dwindling resources to poverty and growing inequality, the need to prepare future architects and practitioners to address current issues in the field requires new methods and tools, including a repertoire of skills.

Responding to this urgent need, the Postgraduate basehabitat programme is aimed at professionals and graduate in architecture who are looking for an educational context in which to learn and enhance their skills and abilities by expanding their range of action to address social and environmental issues.

The programme, combining theoretical knowledge and practical experience, explores the practice of architecture in a different way, involving diverse actors within the design process, understanding the implications of design decisions by focusing on in-depth choices of materials and construction methods. It is taught by an international body of visiting renowned architects and scholars, as well as basehabitat’s teaching staff. The approach focuses on hands-on experience, in a context of professionals from various disciplines and an international learning environment.

As today’s construction activities are extremely resource intensive and harmful to the environment and our climate, special attention is given to natural building materials which have been the focus of basehabitat for the past 15 years.

The Postgraduate basehabitat is a full-time study program taught in English lasting one and a half years, divided into three terms (theory and design, hands-on experience and master thesis), at the end of which students receive a Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture – basehabitat (MAS) from the University of the Arts and Design Linz.

Objectives

• Enhance the awareness of the global challenges we face in relation to the built environment, such as climate change and social inequality.
• Develop and broaden the scope for architects and related professionals to develop alternative concepts and implement them.
• Combine the efforts of different disciplines and include distinct cultural peculiarities without hierarchies.
• Raise the level of professionalism in matters relating to the built environment.

Teaching Team

• A team of outstanding and internationally renowned guest professors.
• An experienced and skilled team at basehabitat
• Guest lecturers from different disciplines

Curriculum structure

The program comprises 90ECTS, distributed among the three terms.