Urban Strategies Integration provides a framework for articulating and deepening an urban aspect of the pre-diploma project. In individual meetings, students are guided through the process of formulating and testing a hypothesis by anchoring their reasoning in urban discourses on a relevant focus of their choice.

Note: Individual projects do not have to tackle large-scale urban designs in order to integrate urban strategies. However, it is necessary that the pre-diploma project – regardless of size – addresses an urban/landscape problematic clearly and consciously so that it can be integrated into the project argumentation accordingly.

Continuous assessment during the development of the work. Written /visual essay, weighted in accordance to individual projects.

The course is offered for architecture students in their pre-diploma semester only. A prerequisite for participation is successful completion of one of the seminars offered by the Urban Strategies department during the course of study.

A collective preliminary meeting will be scheduled at the beginning of the semester and with sufficient time after studio-kick offs to reflect on the respective semester-topics. (Date and time TBA).

Individual meetings throughout the semester will be scheduled Wednesdays and Thursdays mornings. Booking slots will be accessible via an online document for registered students.