Post-Graduate master programme

The second year is entirely organised around the commencement and completion of the project thesis work. The majority of teaching and activities are specific to the three, respective specialisations. However, the second year also provides common sessions for all students and most of the work is undertaken within SAC. Collaborative tasks between students in the three specialisations are also organised and can take place on a project-specific basis. The latter defines the framework for SAC’s cross-specialisation activities.

SAC’s specialisation, Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) is devoted to building design as the crucible of architectural practice and discourse. It engages with architecture as the sensual and critical interplay of individual and collective imaginations, material forms and inhabitable space, as well as flows of technologically mediated processes and effects and design intelligence... (more)

The specialisation: Architecture and Performative Design (APD) is informed by a range of material, constructional, manufacturing and environmental considerations and technologies. The performance of an architectural design is conceived in its ability to incorporate various requirements resulting from programmatic, functional, structural and environmental aspects in a synergetic and fruitful manner... (more)

SAC’s specialisation in Architecture and Critical Spatial Practice (ACSP) navigates architecture as a critical spatial, political, cultural, and social tool taking full advantage of SAC’s position within the Städelschule. It draws on the playful and culturally discursive potential of the relationship between architecture and related disciplines, first and foremost art, to reinvigorate architecture with cultural, social and political criticism... (more)