Scuola di Design e Moda - Master in Design e Moda - Domus Academy

Beginning: September 2012
Duration: 1 year

The Master in Urban Vision and Architectural Design program, working on the interplay among the multiple project scales within the urban context, offers a vision where urban planning, architecture, landscape and design skills, social and anthropological analysis, communication and marketing tools, converge to create a new professional identity, able to redefine the functions and aesthetics of the urban space. 

The Master, in order to provide complex professional skills, uses innovative analysis tools and design methods on different levels, with a particular focus on architecture, landscape, urban planning. Environmental sustainability and renewable energy topics, that can’t be ignored in any contemporary scenario, represent a transversal research and project theme.

The program is structured around five modules dealing with the different project scales: Tools and Languages, Strategies and Vision, Architectural Link, Urban and Landscape Design, Architectural Design. They consist of lectures and research and design workshops

• the lectures express both methodologies, theories and reflections about architecture, landscape, urban planning and experiences related to practices and professionals rooted in Europes
• the workshops give students high familiarity with the research, analysis, planning and communication activities.

Moreover, students are involved in

• visits to interesting building sites and meetings with professionals, which give back the complexity of the process of project realization
• architectural tours, invite students to reflect about the specificity of the italian design culture
• learning and research experiences in collaboration with other architectural institutes and and universities, which enrich the individual background of knowledge and experience


During the last three months students develop the Final Master Project, a personal project focusing on specific urban and architectural issues. The student is required to present the work by an oral dissertation, a digital presentation and a model.