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Master in Architecture

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The Master in Architecture offered by USI Academy of Architecture is based on an innovative, interdisciplinary, humanist and generalist educational teaching model. 

As part of its teaching programme, the ISA offers a wide range of optional courses that allow students to delve into specific topics in history and theory of art and architecture, in some cases in the form of seminars. Interdisciplinary workshops and public lectures by invited scholars complete the Master in Architecture's educational offering.

Course list

Year Course Teacher ECTS
MSc1 Architecture in Photography D. Mondini
MSc1 Architecture on Display: The Sir John Soane Museum in London C. Frank   2.5
MSc1-2 Modern Architecture and Politics: Berlin S. Hildebrand  2.5
MSc1 Social Architecture S. Hildebrand  2.5
MSc1-2 Architectures of Trauma A. Bernardi 2.5
MSc1-2
Public Art S. Martinoli Stebler 
MSc1-2 Italian Design: 1945-2023 G. Neri 2.5
MSc1 Digital Heritage P. Fornaro 2.5
MSc1 The Agency of Architecture: A Profession between Service and Vision A. Bideau 2.5
MSc1-2 Architects and the Urbanization Process A. Bideau  2.5
MSc1 The Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model G. Neri  2.5
MSc1-2
Gothic and its Reception D. Mondini
MSc1 Renaissance in Lombardy and the Ticinese Region 
M. Moizi 2.5
MSc1-2 Enlightenment C. Frank   2.5
MSc1 Konstantin Melnikov: Architect of the Impossible P. Kuznetsov 2.5
MSc1-2
Soviet architecture avant-garde: utopias, théories and practice P. Kuznetsov

MSc1-2 Building an Empire: Roman Architecture V. Ivanovici 2.5
MSc1-2 Lexicon of Architectural Critique  B. Pedretti  2.5
MSc1-2 Methods and Techniques of Architectural Restoration S. Bettini 2.5
MSc1-2 Methodologies of Art History C. Frank  2.5
MSc1-2
Monuments in the service of the idea of Nation I. Emelianova
MSc1 Museology and Museography C. Mazzarelli 5
MSc1-2 Why History?  E. Chestnova 2.5
MSc1-2
Paper Space V. Tescari
MSc1-2 History of Contemporary Art  T. Bezzola  2.5
MSc1-2 Urban Futures: Rethinking Architecture and Infrastructure in View of Rising Seas S. Roesler 2.5
MSc1 Workshop: Theory and Practice of Conservatorship C. Mazzarelli
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