APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE M-ARCH-T PROGRAM STARTING WITH THE WINTER TERM 2024/25:

MAY 15, 2024

M-ARCH-T is a 4-semester consecutive international master’s course in architecture, which is awarded the title of “Master of Science” (M.Sc.). The main focus of the program is typology. It is taught in English.

M-ARCH-T understands typology as a device of change with a special potential for current challenges: the densification of cities in many regions goes hand in hand with the development of open-use, hybrid building types. Existing buildings are in constant transformation, being constantly adapted through appropriation and to changing requirements. The differentiation of ways of life in an increasingly networked transcultural society affects the shape and organization of buildings. With the technical requirements for buildings, also the potential of new planning and construction technologies is increasing. As a result, our knowledge of building types is being questioned again today.

The discipline of architecture worldwide is reacting to this development by applying well-known and new typological analysis and design methods. M-ARCH-T is in particular dedicated to this contemporary challenge in architecture. By designing in the interplay with social and technological aspects, the program is aiming at developing innovative building types and corresponding methodologies and strategies for architectural agencies in various and complex environments around the world.

The close proximity between research and teaching at the Institute of Architecture guarantees a continuous updating of questions. Typology and type are interdisciplinary terms that, in their diverse scientific use and the associated methods, act as bridges between architecture and other disciplines.

Berlin as a city and study environment serves as a laboratory for typological developments. Its rich and diverse history is equally a history of building typologies. Berlin is well-known worldwide for its open and pluralistic society which is constantly evolving new building prototypes. 

M-ARCH-T is a discourse platform and a type-generation laboratory for the Institute of Architecture, thanks to the various typological expertise and views of the teachers. This continues a tradition of typological work of our institute, represented for example by Oswald Mathias Ungers. 1964-65 Ungers developed his morphological and structural building analysis at the TU Berlin. As a criticism of modernity, he contributed to the renewal and extension of typological methods. In a modified contemporary context, M-ARCH-T continues the tradition of critical questioning and the further development of building types.