Have you ever admired a city, remembered its special atmosphere unforgettably? Have you ever stood fascinated in front of or inside a building, spellbound by the architecture, impressed by its charisma?
The decision to study architecture at TU Braunschweig means the opportunity to learn, experiment and develop at a renowned university. Architecture is never just a solution to a given task; it always consists of a variety of possibilities.
Developing standards for quality
The Braunschweig School is characterised by design-related subjects; the central educational content is the design synthesis of all core subjects in design and construction. During your studies, you will therefore learn to critically reflect on architectural form and architectural spaces and to implement them in a constructively and functionally appropriate manner. It is essential to develop standards for quality.
Educated holistically, you will acquire all the knowledge and skills you need to participate in the design of our built environment. At the same time, you will develop an awareness of the responsibility you have as an architect.v
Think tank and creative cocoon
The drawing rooms are a special offer for Braunschweig architecture students. Every student can apply for one of the more than 300 drawing room spaces.
These student workspaces play a major role in determining the quality of the architecture degree programme. The strength of the drawing rooms lies in the mutual help and correction of students with drafts and exercises, but also in the communal togetherness during busy phases. Ideally, a creative atmosphere unfolds here, characterised by mutual help and constructive criticism.
The stimulation and exchange of ideas with fellow students is a unique experience in studying and complements the teaching of lecturers.
Exhibitions and competitions enrich the studies
Our students as well as our graduates have a reputation for producing outstanding designs. They regularly face national and international competition and achieve prizes in renowned competitions.
They can also face internal competition and succeed in the CloudClub Award of our alumni association of the same name, which annually awards prizes to the best student designs and works of our department. The result of this competition is shown in the exhibition pavilion of the Department of Architecture.
Information on the study programme
The education of architects requires a broad-based basic qualification, from technical knowledge to aesthetic judgement. During your studies at TU Braunschweig, you will become familiar with architecture as a multifaceted and living system of all those moments and factors that give rise to the multi-layered whole of a building or a city.
A broad spectrum of teaching content and fields of work awaits you:
- History of architecture, building and urban development
- Media representation and artistic design
- Industrial building and constructive design
- Construction and technology
- Building theory and design
- Building design
- Urban planning and landscape architecture
A wide-ranging basic education
The Bachelor's degree is the first degree and provides an overview of the professional field. The course also enables students to take up a Master's degree or complementary further education.
The Bachelor's degree programme aims to provide a wide-ranging basic education. The basis is a holistic education, which is divided into five areas of competence:
- Cultural and historical knowledge
- Representation and design
- Constructing and building
- Design and planning: city and landscape
- Design and planning: buildings
Working in digital and model-making workshops and using the latest media are a matter of course.
Structure of the study programme
As soon as you start your Bachelor's degree, you will become acquainted with the entire breadth of architecture. In the first year of study, we teach you the methodological and technical basics in subjects such as
- Building history
- Media and artistic representation
- Building physics
- Structural engineering
- Building construction
- Building materials science
- Introduction to design
In the second year of study, the curriculum includes important methods, in-depth impressions of the entire spectrum of architecture and larger design projects. The canon of subjects ranges from
- the history and theory of architecture,
- the construction subjects, such as building technology, structural engineering and building construction,
- subjects in urban planning and landscape architecture
- to design projects in urban planning and building design.
In the third year of study, you expand the knowledge you have acquired and choose content and topics according to your own interests. In addition, you train your design skills in drafts and projects, such as
- the constructive project,
- the compact design
- the bar designs
- and the three-month Bachelor's draft.
Furthermore, you will acquire key qualifications such as foreign languages, presentation techniques or project work.
Your own experience abroad is written in capital letters: be it during an excursion, as an internship or by studying at a partner university.
Thanks to the numerous international exchange programmes at TU Braunschweig, you can easily integrate semesters abroad into your studies: Your achievements from abroad will be recognised and your studies will not be prolonged as a result.
Excursions at home and abroad are offered every semester. A special experience is offered by the trips during the excursion week in the summer semester, which are carried out across all degree programmes and semesters.
Studying abroad [in German only]
The field of architecture is complex and multifaceted. The study of architecture combines the fields of art and technology as well as history and society. Since architects are responsible for the design and construction of buildings, you should have a great interest in creative work and artistic talent. Spatial imagination is indispensable.
They are also responsible for the technical and economic elaboration and implementation in the design as well as the coordination of the specialist engineers who are entrusted with this planning. This requires technical understanding.
They are the central interface between many levels and parties, such as the building owners, the construction site and the building authorities. Communication skills, negotiation skills and assertiveness are required.
As in the past, architects will continue to develop projects from design to realisation.
Every building task requires problem-oriented analysis, innovative experimentation and creative decision-making. Inventive thinking and acting is based on knowledge from history and theory, requires self-critical control on the basis of social criteria, and is dependent on scientific, technical and artistic stimuli.
Although tasks, values and working methods are constantly changing and the demands on architects are becoming more and more diverse, they remain generalists in principle.
The Bachelor's degree in architecture is a first professional qualification, but does not lead to licensing as an architect in Germany and is not recognised internationally as a professional qualification. For this, it is necessary to complete the postgraduate Master's degree in architecture.
Admission requirements and application
You need a valid university entrance qualification to apply. There is a special selection procedure for the Bachelor's programme in Architecture.
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Additional offer: Architecture+
In addition to the normal 6-semester Bachelor's programme, a special additional offer is the 8-semester "Architecture+" Bachelor's programme with a stay abroad in the third year. It starts in the 4th semester. For more details, see Architecture+.
