Welcome to the Department of Construction Engineering at Chaoyang University of Technology, a young but prospective department among civil/construction engineering institutions in Taiwan. We offer solid theoretical and practical courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs to educate our students to be engineering leaders in this nation.
UG in Architecture & Construction Engineering at Universita Degli Studi Di Roma tor Vergata
Program description:
Planning, construction, restoration and civil engineering. History, theory and methods of architectural design, structural calculation, restoration and preservation. Design and town planning. Restoration and preservation.
Employment opportunities:
As collaborator in engineering and architectural firms; planning, execution and restoration coordinator of architectural and engineering works in private and public firms; private practice.
Entry requirements
Maths and English GCSE Grade C or above, or equivalent.
A minimum of 300 UCAS Tariff Points, or equivalent qualification, to include an Art and Design based subject.
If your application does not include an Art and Design based subject you will be asked to submit examples of your creative and design ability.
About the course
Architectural design projects developed in a strong studio culture are central to this course, which aims to produce creative graduates with entrepreneurial vision, a sustainable approach and a personal position on architecture. To develop these qualities we look from the start at the role of the architectural profession and the challenges of designing for diverse communities and cultures.
At Nottingham Trent University we are responding to the need for a new kind of architecture professional, identified through discussion with architectural practitioners, students and academics. The degree in architecture provides an extremely diverse range of expertise in the fields of art, design, construction engineering and surveying. This course therefore takes advantage of a wide range of resources and provides a focus and meeting point for these disciplines as the ideal basis for interdisciplinary design.
How do you study?
The core part of the course, the design studio modules, will be delivered through structured design project work, supported by lectures and seminars and monitored weekly or fortnightly through group and individual tutorials, peer sessions and group reviews. These replicate the architecture practice model of team meetings, design reviews and client presentations. The group tutorials are designed to encourage you to articulate your design ideas and to critically appraise the work of others, developing interpersonal communication skills, which are invaluable in professional life.
Key design skills, such as orthographic drawing, model making and CAD will be taught in slightly larger, demonstration groups, within the design studio modules.
The technical, contextual and practice modules will employ a variety of delivery methods as appropriate to each subject and stage of the course, from lectures and seminars involving lecturers, practitioners, clients, etc., to role play, group projects and exposure to real projects through site visits and attending project meetings.
Reasons to choose this course:
Design at the core
The course focuses on the increasing integration and development of theoretical knowledge through a strong design studio culture.
Industry understanding
You will be be given a critical awareness from the early stages of the possible roles of the architect and other construction industry and creative industries professionals.
Understanding of diverse communities and cultures
The course is designed to develop an individual’s critical awareness of diverse communities’ cultures and the consideration of these in the development of responsive architectural designs.
Entrepreneurship
The course develops creative approaches to forging design opportunities underpinned by an understanding of commercial factors.
Sustainability
Environmental and social sustainability will be core to all subjects and approached through critical understanding.
The course was created to respond to the current reality of the architecture profession, architectural education and the construction industry, through its key objectives outlined above. It was designed following consultations with:
practicing architects and designers
academics from other architecture courses
recent graduates as well as UK and international students.
This process involved input from organisations including:
the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) at national and regional level
the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Society of Architects
CABE East Midlands,
Opun – the East Midlands Architecture Centre
ARCHAOS – The National Student Architectural Society.
Master in architecture
Would you like to create beautiful buildings that will outlast you? Would you like to shape aesthetic and practical surroundings to people’s delight? Do you want to work within a fascinating profession?
By following this five-year long Master’s degree programme in Architecture you will be trained as a creative planner in one of Norway’s largest industries. Planning and building activities in Norway amount to more than NOK 100 billion every year. The architect’s main area of responsibility and knowledge is the shaping of our physical surroundings with a view to quality, practical use and aesthetic value.
Interdisciplinarity
At NTNU we make sure our lecturers are highly skilled professionals. Landscape architects, interior decorators, advanced engineers, philosophers, sociologists, industrial designers and art historians teach alongside performing artists, but the majority of our teachers are trained architects. This is a presumption in order for our students to learn how to include the different architectural aspects in their work.
A project and problem based programme
Through project assignments and lectures the students will learn how to approach problems of various natures, and solve them in an aesthetical, practical and resource-friendly manner.
Parallel to the projects, we teach various theoretical, analytical and practical subjects which provide the basis for the creative process.
Specializations
The first three years of the programme are identical for all students. After that, the students may specialize over two years within the following areas:
Planning of buildings and building environments for industry and business, public institutions and housing
Form and function, creative processes and planning methodology
Technical and financial aspects of architectural activities. Construction engineering, technical installations, building economy, building management and computer engineering
Drawing, plastic form, use of colours and aesthetic communication
The theory and history of architecture; protection, renovation and improvement of buildings and building environments
City and town development, physical planning.
Excursions
Excursions in Norway and abroad are an important element of the programme. The students’ sense of form is trained through personal observations of surroundings and objects. Studies of both historical and modern examples are important in the learning process.
Studies abroad are also relevant for many students in their final part of the programme.