Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program / Three Semester studying in Vienna / Master of Science in Urban Strategies
Established in 2005 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and directed by Wolf D. Prix the Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program offers a three-semester full-time post-professional master studies. The program is designed for both recent graduates and design professionals that hold a degree in architecture or related disciplines. Successful completion of the program will lead to the academic title of Master of Science in Urban Strategies (MSc in Urban Strategies) and comprises 50 semester credit hours, which equals 90 ECTS credits.
Rather than being bound to a determined curriculum, the program emphasizes an experimental, yet methodical approach. Providing an international and interdisciplinary platform the goal of Urban Strategies is to encourage the participants to develop and refine their individual skills and push the envelope of their discipline.
To facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue between teachers and students workshops are held by cutting-edge architects and theorists from well-known international institutions. Along with Wolf D.Prix and faculty, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sanford Kwinter, Eric Owen Moss, Patrik Schumacher, Petra Blaisse, John McMorrough, Hani Rashid among others have been teaching our students throughout the years, and became frequent visitors of the program.
Urban Strategies currently offers 3 different full time MSc Courses; Urban Technique combines research of the organization of the urban territory with architectural strategic thinking and operates as a laboratory to re-examine the role of architectural discourse within the urban disciplines. Power Plant City investigates new urban planning parameters and strategies for urban models based on energy. With energy as the emerging new paradigm for the urban environment the city will become its own power plant. Excessive focuses on strategies of architectural design, exploiting a theory of excessive form – not as a rejection of the formal traditions but an as extension of them.
In addition to the master courses Urban Strategies offers annual summer schools and travelling workshops as intense design training.
