Master in Urban Management and Architectural Design
The Domus Academy Master program offers a vision where city planning, architecture, design skills, social and anthropological analysis, communication and marketing tools converge to create a new professional identity, able to redefine the functions and aesthetics of the urban space.

Program Philosophy: The world’s urban population is rapidly increasing, and soon, for the first time in history, cities will have more inhabitants than rural, undeveloped areas. Interaction between human beings and the urban spaces in which they live is therefore becoming increasingly important. Domus Academy’s Master in Urban and Architectural Design aims to highlight new, innovative relations between people, architecture, and the surrounding landscape—territory, as DA puts it. Its goal is to form professionals who understand the complexities of urban life, spaces, and architecture and who can formulate and use new, innovative methods of urban transformation and development. City planning, design skills, social and anthropological analysis, and marketing and communication methods converge to form a new profession and a new professional capable of combining function and aesthetics in urban space.

Program Structure: The Master in Urban Management and Architectural Design program begins with a week of orientation and “team building” during which instructors will evaluate the different abilities and backgrounds of the students in order to find a common ground between program participants. Students then attend a series of lectures and laboratory sessions that aim to update the skills that they acquired during their undergraduate courses or in their work experience. They should then begin to develop a common vision of the issues posed by the development of “territory.” During the final stages of the program, students work together with both public and private institutions or with important architectural firms on their thesis projects. Those projects are presented first to the examining committee during the final exam and then in a competition open to journalists and the general public.