Design of Architectural Environment
8.191.00.03 Design of Architectural Environment
Qualification awarded: Master in architecture and town planning
Entry year: 2021
Mode of study: full
Program duration: 1,5 years
Institute: Institute of Architecture and Design
Number of credits: 90 credits ECTS
Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework: NQF Level 7 (Second cycle of QF-EHEA / EQF Level 7)
Field(s) of study: Architecture and construction
Specific admission requirements: An applicant must have the higher education document of state standard of the first level (bachelor)and pass the creative competition.
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning: The recognition of foreign higher education is made by Lviv Polytechnic National University. There are no mechanisms for the recognizing of informal education.
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements: Full implementation of the educational program and defense of master's qualification work.
Characteristics of the educational program: The educational-professional program is based on well-known positions and results of modern scientific researches in the field of: architecture theory and urban planning, architectural design, landscape architecture, regional planning. There is possible the further professional and scientific career growth within these topical specializations.
Gained competence: - fundamentals of theory, design standards, methods of urban planning, architectural design of new residential and public buildings or restoration and reconstruction of the historical ones, environmental design;
- functional-typological, architectural-artistic fundamentals of building design and complex building design as well;
- major approaches to functional-planning and architectural-artistic building and complex building management, taking into consideration different needs of the population, climate and urban planning peculiarities, requirements of monument preservation legislation;
- interconnection between the volumetric-spatial, constructive, building, engineering solutions and maintenance qualities of structures;
- technology of design management in architecture and urban planning, stages of design, functions of an architect as a supervisor of a design process;
- technology of design tasks development, content and sources of a pre-project information, methods of data acquisition and analysis;
- systems of design and working documentation, principal requirements;
- typology and classification of historical-architectural objects heritage and principles of their complex investigation;
- innovative technologies of fixation and computer modelling of historical architectural objects;
- methods and practices of historical-architectural heritage objects reconstruction, specificity of building materials and technologies in the field of restoration and reconstruction of architectural objects and their artistic alignment elements.
- to apply natural-science disciplines knowledge into solving the architectural and urban planning tasks;
- to use the main techniques of functional-planning management of buildings and their elements in architectural design taking into account social, natural-climate, ecological, normative, technological and other requirements;
- to offer a design idea and develop it while implementing the architectural project, to provide the architectural-composition , actual social and ecological tasks for creation of healthy, available and comfortable setting;
- to apply the methods, techniques and technologies including composition modelling and computer design;
- to follow the requirements of project documentation at all stages, comprising working drafts of architectural solutions.
- ability for analyzing the urgent architectural and urban planning problems, estimating the real possibilities of their solving via architectural-urban planning, environmental design;
- ability to effectively communicate and interact with different experts in an architectural-building field;
- ability for forming a stable world view and upholding the author’s design solutions;
- ability to feel professional responsibility for the applied architectural solutions;
- aspiration to gaining further knowledge and self-perfection.
Academic mobility: There is possibility of students mobility based on bilateral agreements between the Lviv Polytechnic National University and universities of Ukraine or higher educational institutions of foreign partner countries.
Work placement(s): The program provides practice on the theme of master's qualification work in volume.
Programme director: Prof., Sc.D. of Arch.Viktor Proskuryakov.
Occupational profiles of graduates: A trained specialist has the opportunity to work in following structures: design bureaus of architectural and planning directions; divisions of the state-level and local self-government administration (Department of Architecture and Urban Development, Department of City Development, Department of Urban Planting and Economy); the institutions of historical environmental protection; research institutes as well as research and forecasting centers; utilities enterprises; construction organizations.
Access to further studies: Obtaining third (educational and scientific / educational and creative) level