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The Academy of Architecture challenges you to develop into an excellent architect, landscape designer or urbanist. Here you work in conjunction with other design disciplines in an international context. This synergy and breadth is unique to our training programmes. Our tutors are leading designers who combine their roles of designer and educator. Our students receive a thorough academic training in combination with practical experience, giving them a head start once they graduate. Our graduates already pos-sess the professional experience they need and are immediately admitted onto the Dutch register of architects.
The Academy of Architecture is a distinguished educational institution. Year in year out, professionals and students alike have ranked our Master’s programmes as excellent. Over the years, our students have won prestigious prizes such as the Archiprix and the Prix de Rome.
In brief, we have a great deal to offer you. Here, you will receive all the scope you need to develop your professional skills to their fullest. From you we expect talent, motivation and great personal commitment. This approach enables us to achieve our ambition: to maintain our reputation as an internationallyrenowned academy, now and in the future.
Aart Oxenaar, Director, Academy of Architecture
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The Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam:an international laboratory Integrated professional practice For designers by designers Inspiring environment and topical debate Artist in Residence Practice-led research in education Professional title Selection and admission More information
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The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture: an international laboratory
For the students and tutors of the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam is a permanent laboratory for their design projects. The Academy maintains strong ties with the professional community in the region, with public services, clients and project developers. Our training programmes are internationally renowned. The Academy has close connections with similar education programmes in Europe, and strives to expand and strengthen its international collaborations. We attract students from all over the world, are regularly visited by international guest lecturers and speakers, and our students are frequent participants in international excursions and projects.
Integrated professional practiceAt the Academy, architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture are independent disciplines. However, we offer training that partially combines all three areas. This prepares students for today’s integrated professional practice that requires students to possess both specialist, and more broadly-based, skills. The interface with visual arts training emphasises the particular importance that we place on the artistic aspect of professional life.
For designers by designersThe Academy’s concurrent education model, which combines theoretical study and professional experience, means that students and tutors are actively engaged in the practice of design, and in practice-based research. This ensures that students are actively involved in a broad professional network, even during their studies. Broadly speaking, students graduating from the Academy of Architecture, do not actually leave the Academy. In the concurrent education model, the student goes on to become an employer, followed by becoming a tutor or mentor to a new generation of students.
Inspiring environment and topical debateThe Academy of Architecture is located in the heart of Amsterdam on Waterlooplein in a remarkable building – a seventeenth-century complex – redeveloped by Claus and Kaan Architects to meet the specific needs of the architecture faculty.
The Academy plays an active role in the cultural life of Amsterdam, and participates in the debate on architecture and urbanism. We organise lectures, workshops, events and exhibitions, often in partnership with external parties. Capita Selecta, a series of lectures featuring a current topic, take place throughout the year; they are open to the public, and admission is free.
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Selection and admissionThe Academy assumes that students will have acquired the necessary technical skills during their BA studies. Admission may include a selection procedure. Students who fail to meet the admission requirements can be considered for the preparatory course Architecture or Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, after which they can be accepted for the Master’s. You can find full information about admission and registration on the website www.academievanbouwkunst.nl.
The Academy also offers a minor in Architecture and a minor in Urbanism and Landscape Architecture so that students on relevant preliminary courses can become familiar with the fundaments during the BA programme.
More informationFor further details about the training programmes, open days, lectures and exhibitions, please visit www.academievanbouwkunst.nl. To find out about recent graduates who present their work here, take a look at Lichting 2013.
Artist in ResidenceIn collaboration with the Art Practice and artistic development research group of the AHK, each year an Artist in Residence (AIR) is invited to ‘disrupt’ the faculty – in a positive sense. In the last few years, remarkable and engaging projects and lecture series have been organised, led by distinguished names such as choreographer Krisztina de Châtel, advertising guru Erik Kessels, Adriaan Beukers professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology, and journalist and author in the field of industrial design, technology and architecture Ed van Hinte, visual artist Jeroen Kooijmans, visual artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, architect Rianne Makkink and cultural sociologist and future thinker Michiel Schwarz.
Practice-led research in educationSocial, practical and technological developments continually make new demands on designers. In view of this, the Academy’s training programme places great emphasis on practice-led research. The researchers organise master classes, projects, excursions, exhibitions and lectures as part of their research. Research themes of recent years include: Living Landscape about the many transformations that landscape undergoes; Street Works which explores the street as the origin of the city; Material & Design that investigates the unique, singular form language of brick, and Foodscapes which delves into current and future modes of food production.
Professional titleGraduates with a Master’s in architecture are qualified to work independently as architects, and are entitled to register straight away in the Dutch register of architects, urbanists or landscape architects.
The programmeslength: 4 years part-timelanguage: Dutch and English degree: Master of Architecture/Landscape Architecture/Urbanism
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Master in Architecture
The Master in Architecture focuses on the future role of the architect as a central figure in the design process. At the Academy of Architecture you will learn to develop your own personal architectural signature. The curriculum concentrates entirely on architectonic thinking and designing. Considerable emphasis is placed on students’ knowledge of oeuvre and developing a clear idea of their position in the design profession. Your unique position within the architecture profession is shaped by input from guest lecturers active in the professional community, our small-scale, student-centred approach, and your dedication and commitment.
The architect is a spatial artist who is able to take design assignments beyond pragmatic limitations. An architect designs buildings that unite functionality with aesthetics. In creating a design, the architect balances technical constraints and his or her artistic vision. An architect is both engineer and conceptual thinker. This synergy is what makes architecture inspiring and thought-provoking. The way in which buildings function – as well as their organisation and appearance – changes in response to social, cultural and technological advances. The value of architecture depends on the extent to which an architect can manage and respond to these changes and create buildings that reflect them. These aspects are central to the Master’s programme; students are encouraged to engage with these issues in a constant dialogue with tutors and fellow students. This interaction will help to define and inform your individual style.
‘ Students enter the Academy with a background in either construction or art education. It is precisely this mix that can strengthen the quality of each individual student.’ Jarrik Ouburg, head Department of Architecture
Steven Broekhof, Bring me back my Amsterdam: Poetics of restructuring
Winter workshop ‘The Amsterdam Canal District’
Summer school ‘Field Work’ with Rianne Makkink
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Master in Urbanism
Urbanism has developed into a discipline that encompasses various roles in the field of spatial planning. One of its primary concerns is the design of public spaces. To some extent, urbanism overlaps with disciplines such as economics, the social sciences, and the study of traffic engineering, environmental science, and the other spatial design disciplines.
Urbanism occurs at numerous scales, from street to region. Urbanists create the spatial conditions for project developments or the further development of areas for public use. They also create plans that are intended to establish certain spatial characteristics, such as those required to draw up plans and structures for urban sites. This places urbanists within the preserve of spatial planning, and gives their work a strategic element.
The Master in Urbanism concentrates on the design aspect of urban planning. Subsequently, the programme emphasizes familiarity with a wide range of design assignments, and acquiring design skills although the primary concern is to encourage students to develop their own perspective on design and to assume a standpoint in professional debate.
‘ The architect of the future must be able and willing to work in a continuous process of searching for programmatic, spatial, architectural and (re) construction opportunities.’ Arjan Klok, head Department of Urbanism
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Students experiment in morphology classes with materials and media forms and thus gain experience in translating an idea into a creation.
Omgevingsarticulaties, Anne Dessing, Architecture
Reversed Boogie Woogie, Donna van Milligen Bielke, Architecture
Winter workshop ‘The Amsterdam Canal District’
One villa for three widows, Pieter de Bruyn Kops, Architecture
Summer school ‘Field Work’ with Rianne Makkink
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Master in Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture is strongly related to architecture, urbanism, cultural engineering and civil engineering. A landscape architect’s material depends to a great extent on soil science, ecology, hydrology and geography. Landscape architecture strives to bring about lasting change in our everyday surroundings. Landscape architects are playing an increasingly more important role in the urbanism process, and in the design of areas for public use.
As a landscape architect, you solve spatial problems by drawing in the topography. You do this at different scales, from garden to region. You are also acutely aware of the impact of the time factor on the quality of the environment. As a landscape architect, you understand how to create the right underlying conditions so that time – as expressed in growth, development, use and decay – can do its work, and create a meaningful outdoor space.
In the Master in Landscape Architecture, you will acquire the skills and knowledge to arrive at design solutions with which you reconcile the infrastructure, built environment, water or green with the existing qualities and potentials of the natural and historic environment.
The Academy participates in an active network of European training programmes that offers opportunities for student and tutor exchanges on a small scale. The Academy is a member of the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and is a partner of the European Master in Landscape Architecture (EMiLA).
‘ I challenge students to embrace the personal input of habitation and design on conditions for people to (re) construct their daily environment and give (communal) meaning to the rural landscape.’ Marieke Timmermans, head Department of Landscape Architecture
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Claire Laeremans, The necessity for ruins
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Programme structure
The three Master programmes follow the same structure. Projects, practical assignments and lectures are supplemented by morphology, and students actively work on their own portfolios:• Design projects are the backbone
of the programme• A rich and intensive range of
(interdisciplinary) design assignments and viewpoints
• Practical assignments centre on training design skills; other assignments emphasize textual analysis and writing skills
• Seminars and lectures• During morphology classes, students
translate ideas into creative solutions• During the Winter School, students of all
disciplines collaborate on one project.
Students can also take elective courses such as modules on self-management and presentation. Students take part on the above-mentioned Capita Selecta lectures, workshops led by an Artist in Residence or researcher, and excursions and study trips in the Netherlands and abroad.
In order to study at the Academy of Architecture, students are required to gain relevant professional experience within the so-called extra-curricular curriculum (for instance by working for one or several design firms for a set number of hours).
‘ I have had a very inspiring time at the Academy, where you can focus on your own fascinations and your own signature as a designer. I still feel connected to the Academy, also by the rich network that you build in an informal way.’ Marijke Bruinsma, alumna Master in Urbanism
Swarm Tectonics, by tutor Neil Leach
InspirationStudying at the AHK means making a deliberate choice for arts education, a well-considered choice for an artistic life-style, in which inspiration is often linked to intensive training, and in which the students -tomorrow’s artists - receive every possible assistance in converting their personal ambitions into the highest artistic quality that they are capable of achieving. CooperationThe range of courses offered by the AHK provides scope for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary cooperation, as well as for international exchanges. The AHK offers students a broad orientation towards art and culture, and for that reason attaches great importance to the fact that students can find out about developments within the other arts dis-ciplines. Students in the various faculties of the AHK are encouraged to cooperate in (interdisciplinary) projects, either organised by the faculties and courses, or begun on the initiative of the students themselves. The AHK has a General Practical Fund to provide financial sup-port for student projects.
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bachelor Toneel en kleinkunst - Amsterdamse Toneelschool&Kleinkunstacademie RegieMime Theaterdocent Scenografie Techniek en theater Productie podiumkunsten master DasArts – Master of Theatre Theaterzanger/Singer-performer
bachelor Cultureel erfgoed master Museology
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