Faculty of Architecture | RWTH Aachen

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AT - Technische Universität Graz
Additional Information
Assessment I:
Assessment II:
Assessment III:
Design Project:
Academic Calendar:
WS begins 01.10.2011
SS begins 01.03.2012
1452 Students (WS 04/05)
Other affiliated courses:
BACHELOR
Optional course 3
Construction Law 2
Optional course 6
Faculty of Architecture | RWTH Aachen
MASTER
Optional course 2
Project Exercise 1 10
Project Exercise 2 10
Optional course 6
Master Thesis 30
Integrated Project:
Project Exercise 3 10
In 6 semesters students complete the bachelor, where the first two semesters serve as an orientation
phase. Thereafter a 4 semester long master programme follows.
Every module/semester builds upon the following module/semester.
An approximate distribution of the 4 study areas exists:
1. History of Architecture, Theory of Architecture, History of Art and Culture
2. Architecture / Studio Design
3. Construction, Technology, Material
4. Representation & Artistic Practices
Compatibility Study 2010/2011
A wide range of optional courses on offer is evident, which cover a large number of subjects
and provide students with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in different directions in an
interdisciplinary manner.
During the Bachelor programmes students may already take a small portion of optional courses; to
date these were chosen from an unofficial list. As no official list of required optionals and non-required
optionals was available at the time of the survey, the complete course offer of Assesment III / Cycle 1
could not be differentiated according to the “required” and “optional” course categories.
The design studio is chosen by the student directly at a professorship. Student consultations are held
on a weekly basis. In n the design classes are maximal 15 students and in the seminars maximal 20
students. Student consultations are conducted by teaching assistants and, in part, by professors. As
a result of the size of the studio design classes, the consultation sessions with the entire group are
often very long. These can last multiple days and have, according to the Erasmus students‘ reports,
a very lively and “inspiring discussion and study atmosphere”. The students work either at home or
in drawing studios. These drawing studios, each with about 40 students are located primarily on
university grounds and are working spaces which are largely organized by the students themselves.
The working groups are very active and the lively discussions in the drawing studios have a large
impact on the multicultural aspects of the design development. For example working discussions,
events in public space, and much more are organised out of these drawing studios.