Architecture Politecnico di Milano

Overview

The educational objective of Architecture degree from Politecnico di Milano is to train an educated professional architect, who is able to deal, in an innovative and responsible way, with the complexity of the transformation process of contemporary living spaces through:

• the ability to understand the specific context in which to act;
• the ability to redevelop and enhance existing buildings and spaces;
• the ability to design in anthropic and natural contexts characterised by unprecedented potentialities and vulnerabilities in rapid and constant transformation;

• the capacity for attentive care of spatial quality, starting from an understanding of the irreducible complexity of human identity, from its spatiotemporal needs to its existential aspirations.

Goals

Educational methods are based on the centrality of the design experience within multidisciplinary workshops, in which different skills (design, scientific, technical, cultural and critical) work together to address the most urgent global challenges:

• sustainability, which is also cultural, social, economic and environmental;
• technological innovation, both analogue and digital, which transforms an architect’s profession through significant changes in the way in which the design, creation and management of buildings and anthropic and natural contexts are interrelated in an increasingly complex and delicate manner;

• the development of individual and social responsibilities, especially in a global reality characterised not only by unprecedented complexities and uncertainties, but also by emerging technologies that require cultural, critical and ethical awareness.