Applicant Profile
This master's degree is aimed at professionals from any discipline who are interested in establishing interdisciplinary links by identifying problems related to architecture and the city that can be addressed as research projects.
Objectives
Build research skills by learning the methodologies used in architecture and other disciplines in order to create knowledge that, although based on problems related to architecture, transcends its disciplinary boundaries.
The program aims to provide students with the skills to structure and develop research in the different areas of study of architecture and the city . The objective is for students to investigate a topic of interest, build new ways of reading problematic situations and/or propose innovative responses to questions raised, through a set of methods applied in a systematic manner.
Skills developed
- Establish relationships between architecture and other disciplines to structure and develop research that allows advancing knowledge and going beyond the disciplinary limits of architecture.
- Analyze situations or problems, diagnose and develop research from the different interdisciplinary areas involved in the construction of the city.
Program differentials
- Integrate the various fields of knowledge involved in constructed facts to propose innovative research.
- Establish links with Faculties and Departments of the University to complement disciplinary knowledge, through participation in elective courses, involvement in research and the choice of thesis co-directions.
- Conduct academic exchanges, obtain a double degree and participate in research networks to strengthen cultural and academic training.
Study Plan
The program aims to provide students with the skills that will enable them to develop as researchers and creators of knowledge, with the ability to establish new connections, raise questions and provide innovative responses to problematic situations related to architecture and the city.
The Master's Degree in Architecture has a duration of four (4) semesters with a total of forty (40) credits and is structured from the basic year or theoretical foundation and a second year of research.
First year: foundation
Foundation cycle (twenty-four credits)
In this cycle, students take four fundamental courses, which are structured based on the research lines of the Department of Architecture. Together, they comprehensively address the issues related to professional and academic performance in the field of Architecture.
The work is carried out in laboratories, where the city of Bogotá is clearly defined as a case study and the support of a significant number of professors from other disciplines is guaranteed, which allows for the establishment of problems and research topics that require rigorous input from different disciplinary perspectives.
The definition of a precise field of study in the first year (Bogotá) guarantees the rigor of learning and the usefulness of the material produced, to meet the purposes established since the undergraduate degree.
Second year: emphasis
Research cycle (sixteen credits)
This cycle is structured from the different stages that require the formulation and development of research. It involves thesis directors, research groups from the Department of Architecture and co-directors of other research groups, with the purpose of participating and proposing interdisciplinary research and strengthening its development.
The link with the University's research groups will be defined according to the projects that require the specific participation of students of the Master's Degree in Architecture. Students will be able to select the project they are linked to after being presented by the different directors of the groups in the laboratories. The final article will be registered in the selected research line and project.
During this second year, the student must complete four (4) elective credits; for this, the student can choose a course from any university program at the master's level or do the research laboratory, in which he/she can develop field work or research work, according to the needs of the project and the interest of the student, as input for his/her thesis proposal. These experiences are carried out with the accompaniment of research groups from other disciplines.
To learn about some of the projects please visit the degree documents section of the Uniandes repository website .
Areas of Research or Concentration
The following are some of the research lines of the Architecture department:
LINES OF INVESTIGATION
- Develop a reflection on the genesis of form in architecture and the training and experimentation in its operation.
- Build reasoned knowledge and understanding of architectural production, both in Colombia and abroad.
- Recognize in architecture a series of technical, thematic, biographical and cultural aspects in the production of form.
- Understand the set of actions that are likely to be applied to the environment through the aspects that constitute the architectural form.
- Develop the analysis tools necessary for the recognition and interpretation of the project.
THE HISTORY OF THE CITY AND ARCHITECTURE, AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR DISCIPLINARY UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION
- To build a state of the art in which the main traditions in the study of the history of architecture applied to teaching and/or design are established.
- Establish a canon or selection of buildings whose exceptional interest and available documentation are exemplary and pertinent to address general or specific topics of architecture, referring to: technique, habitability, form and/or place.
- Recognize in architecture a series of technical, thematic, biographical and cultural aspects in the production of form.
- Have a database that allows you to view different sets of variables to establish relationships and associations.
- Develop a protocol that considers, at different levels of depth, the steps to approach the study of what has been built, considering different emphases.
- Devise a series of exercises in which principles and relationships verified using different methodological strategies can be examined.
ANALYSIS AND GUIDELINES FOR THE REGION, THE CITY AND THE URBAN PROJECT
- Studying urban facts from different scales and in the fields of history, theory, analysis, planning and intervention. The main object of study is Bogotá and its region.
DESIGN, INNOVATION AND HABITAT POLICIES
- Evaluate the technical and institutional feasibility of planning, designing and implementing comprehensive housing and support facilities projects, as opposed to the sectoral approach to development generally used.
- Generate management models that facilitate the concerted participation of the public, private and community sectors in the formulation and execution of comprehensive housing projects and facilities for education, health, local administration and recreation, mainly.
- To systematically identify the relationships between the processes of urban physical deterioration and the poverty conditions of the population that settles in these areas.
- Generate management models for the comprehensive (physical-social) care of deteriorated urban areas.
- Based on progressive construction and financing schemes used in unplanned settlements of illegal origin, generate social housing models that can be offered by the private sector, based on gradual and industrialized construction processes that respond to the technical requirements and the spatial and economic needs of the applicants.
CONCEPTS AND METHODS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE CITY AND ARCHITECTURE
- Teaching and learning architecture from architecture itself.
- Formulate, develop and evaluate curricular plans at the undergraduate and graduate levels in architecture.
- Making architecture a vehicle for citizen education.
TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN HABITAT DESIGN
- Establish relationships between technique and built project: Identify the nature of the architectural form versus its technical conditions.
- Clarify the available state of the art in order to propose innovation agendas.
- Learning from specific cases: Incorporate proven technical knowledge on built project cases, in order to consolidate research, design and project management strategies.
- Learning from technology in context: Systematically recording relevant local experiences that constitute the elements of situated technological awareness, temporally and spatially.
- Understanding the integrality of architecture from a technical perspective: Reading the technical problem as a sequence of knowledge integration, beyond specialized discourses.
- Project-territory relations, in terms of respect for its ecological structure, energy efficiency in terms that transcend the scale of the project.
Model Program
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First Semester
| ARQU-4201 | Laboratorio 1 | 4 |
| ARQU-4101 | Fundamento 1. Planeamiento y Proyecto Urbano | 4 |
| ARQU-4104 | Integración Sistemas Técnicos | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Second Semester
Deepened Emphasis
Third Semester
| ARQU-4203 | Laboratorio de Profundizacion | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Fourth Semester
| ARQU-4303 | Proyecto de Grado | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Research Emphasis
Third Semester
Fourth Semester
Alumni Profile
The Master's in Architecture trains researchers capable of proposing, structuring, developing and communicating research that addresses problems related to architecture and the city. To do this, it strengthens reading, writing, analysis and synthesis skills. In addition, the student will develop critical thinking that will allow him or her to build a position regarding ways of thinking and understanding architecture.
Degree Requirements
To qualify for a degree, the Master's student in Architecture must:
- Complete and pass the entire proposed study plan (40 credits)
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Have your thesis uploaded and approved on the University's Degree Document platform.
- Not be involved in a disciplinary process or serving a serious sanction.
- Pay the degree fees required by the University and be in good standing with the institution on all matters.
- Meet the minimum English requirement. To do this, the degree candidate has the following options:
- Valid TOEFL with a score of 213/300 or 80/120. Exam validity: 2 years.
- Valid IELTS with a score of 6.5. Exam validity: 2 years.
- Having graduated from an undergraduate program at the Universidad de los Andes, within the five years prior to entering the graduate program.
- University diploma (bachelor's, master's or doctorate) from an English-speaking country
- Qualification exam and workshops at Uniandes
Contact Information
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