UCD College of Engineering & Architecture
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Study Abroad Programme The UCD School of Architecture welcomes applications from students interested in studying architecture at UCD for a semester or longer. The UCD School of Architecture is home to Ireland’s longest-running and most prestigious architecture programme. Over the past century, the School has been of central importance to all aspects of Ireland’s architectural culture, producing graduates of the highest calibre, achieving excellence in research and fostering innovation, experiment and debate. From Kevin Roche to Grafton Architects, many of our graduates have achieved worldwide renown, while our research and graduate programmes have contributed at an international level in key areas of practice, scholarship and research. What will I study? Each year of UCD’s architecture programme combines design studio with lecture and seminar-based subjects. The emphasis in the first three years is on equipping students with the knowledge, skills and understanding essential to the discipline of architecture. Knowledge acquired in lecture courses is applied in design projects of increasing complexity. Acquiring skills and techniques in a range of media, students develop strong individual work methods. In the graduate course, the focus is on introducing students to research, scholarship and innovation. Students are invited to discover and develop their own specific path in architecture by engaging systematically and deeply with the discipline and its many contexts. |
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The themes visited in seminars and in studios derive from the research interests and current concerns of staff. Independence of thought, critical enquiry and structured exploration are encouraged and supported. Visiting students participate fully in every aspect of the UCD School of Architecture programme. In addition, UCD’s modular degree programmes allow students to choose electives from across the university.
Design in Context
The design studio lies at the heart of the UCD Architecture Programme. In keeping with the School’s overarching aim of producing architecture in context, the studio course invites students to engage with the various frameworks within which an architectural project takes shape. Beginning with a specific site and specific brief, the investigation will encompass not just the physical context and functional parameters, but also the social, cultural and political context within which the project is being proposed.
Architecture students from accredited programmes take the 15 ECTS credit Design Studio module. Non-accredited Architecture / Architectural History Major students take the 10 ECTS credit Design Studio module, which is specifically designed to assist students in preparing a portfolio of design and graphic work for entry into high-quality graduate programmes in Architecture. It offers a unique opportunity to develop skills and experience in architectural design while expanding and deepening knowledge of the discipline.
Module Selection
Architecture study abroad students have the opportunity to choose from two Architecture Studio modules and from all lecture-based Architecture modules. Students may also have the opportunity to take part in Architecture field trips to European cities. Students attending UCD for a single semester may take up to 30 ECTS credits which typically comprise of one Architecture Design Studio module and a selection of taught modules. These taught modules may be either all Architecture modules or a combination of Architecture modules and up to two others from those offered in UCD. Module selection is subject to satisfactory academic background, to timetabling constraints and availability of places. UCD School of Architecture also welcomes applications from students wishing to participate in the Architecture Study Abroad Programme on a full-year basis.
Credit Transfer
At the end the semester, UCD provides an official transcript to the home institution. That institution decides on credits to be awarded for the modules pursued at UCD. It is the responsibility of incoming Study Abroad students to agree with their home institution arrangements on credit transfer and approval of their module selection beforehand.
Assessment
As is the case for all UCD students, UCD Architecture Study Abroad students are expected to undertake all assessments in accordance with University regulations. Assessments are based on a combination of continuous assessment, project work and end of semester examinations.
Application Details
If you would like to register your interest or apply to Study Architecture Abroad here in UCD, the application deadlines are:
Full Year or first Semester (Fall)
May 1st, 2012
Second Semester (Spring)October 15th, 2012
Accommodation
There is a team dedicated to ensuring that you have accommodation here in Dublin, during your time at UCD. Once you have accepted your place on the programme, information on how to apply for accommodation will be supplied to you by the UCD .
Contact Details
For further information contact:
Joanne Reilly
Study Abroad Assistant
UCD Engineering and Architecture Programme Office,
Room 122, Engineering and Materials Science Centre
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 716 1867
Fax: +353 1 716 1155
Email: joanne.reilly@ucd.ie
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Testimonial - DAVID LEATHERBARROW Professor of Architecture, Associate Dean, Chair Graduate Group in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania In times such as ours, when the interests of students and teachers of architecture oscillate between focused but narrow expertise and free but often irrelevant experimentation, the existence and ambition of a School such as University College Dublin offers a welcome alternative, for a number of reasons. First, UCD’s dedication to both its home city, Dublin, and its surrounding countryside, situates its programmes at the intersection of themes that are essential in architecture today: culture and nature, modernity and tradition, the attractive promise of new technologies and the tested wisdom of craft methods. A second strength of UCD is its inclusive approach to architectural skills and their acquisition. No choice between digital and manual methods can be made today. UCD’s serious commitment to the full range of design techniques introduces students to their several strengths and their complementarities. Lastly, UCD offers students a combination of professors and professionals that binds together studies in the theoretical and practical aspects of architecture. No School’s graduates approximate the ideal of the “reflective practitioner” more closely than this one’s. That the teachers and students are not just serious about their work but wonderfully collegial makes the School even more special. |
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Testimonial - KENNETH FRAMPTON Ware Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Looking back over the years it seems to me that the ethos of architectural culture in Dublin has always been based on cultivating a particular type of sensitivity towards the nature of the environmental grain, irrespective of whether the subject in question is an urban grain or the grain of a particular landscape, or a mixture of both. It is just this tactile quality that makes the teaching of architecture at University College Dublin into a unique experience, one which is not available today elsewhere. Understated, modest, and non-spectacular and yet, at the same time, always pertinent, UCD has something to offer that the big global schools cannot match, namely, a commitment to the craft of architecture that is as critical as it is pragmatic. |
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Testimonial - TOD WILLIAMS & BILLIE TSIEN Architects, Louis Kahn Chair, School of Architecture, Yale University We have reviewed the work of students at UCD over several years. It is exceptional work. The programme of study addresses architectural issues in ways that are both global and particularly Irish. There is a clear understanding of the issues and theory that inform and drive current pedagogy. Yet the work here is done with a grounded artfulness. The hand is considered a powerful tool. The heart has parity with the head. |
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