Architecture and Urban Design 

Graduating students would acquire essential knowledge and skills to be able to:

• Create a user-sensitive design from single building scale to part-of-a-city scale drawing upon understanding the interaction between people and their built and natural environment.
• Address challenges facing contemporary cities and propose interventions integrating different scales (architecture, urban design, landscape, city planning, regional planning) based on understanding the complexity of cities.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of environment-behavioral studies taking into consideration cultural diversity, social differences and the impact of a built form on people’s daily life and community identity
• Conduct multidisciplinary empirical research triangulating quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Apply an ecological approach to building systems.
• Design appropriate, affordable, and adaptable housing.
• Design adaptive re-use of buildings.
• Participate in urban upgrading and urban regeneration projects.
• Conduct and utilize participatory processes in design.
• Conduct architecture programming and post-occupancy evaluation.
• Conduct architectural and urban research and discern lessons learned from practical experience.
• Utilize multiple ICT-based and digital design tools needed in professional environments.

The graduate will also have skills that are scarce yet in demand in the employment market such as the skills to conduct architectural and urban research, building performance and public space simulations, architectural programming, participatory design, post-occupancy evaluation, use of VR tools, among other skills that are needed to address the challenges of the contemporary city.

Careers you can pursue:

• Architect
• Urban Designer
• Urban and Architectural Researcher
• BIM Specialist
• Participatory Design Specialist
• Architecture brief/program Developer
• Sustainable development Specialist
• Upgrading and Adaptive Re-use Specialist

Graduates of ARUD are qualified to work as architects, urban designers, and researchers in the fields of sustainable architectural design, urban design, housing, neighborhood design, design and planning of city extensions, upgrading of informal areas and slums, adaptive re-use of buildings, urban regeneration, historic conservation and rehabilitation of historic areas, densification of new cities.