MSc Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP) at HafenCity University Hamburg

The MSc REAP is an international, interdisciplinary programme on sustainable planning at different scales, intended to prepare graduates to promote sustainable architecture and urban development in different geographical and cultural settings. It is not an architectural design course.

Faculty: Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning  |  Duration: 2 academic years (17 modules)  |  Study mode: full-time; English-taught  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

What you will study

Lectures and seminars are grouped around central project work on real-world case studies. The 17 modules cover sustainability, water, material and energy cycles in the city, resource-efficient urban technologies and infrastructure, economics and administration of buildings and urban services, legal and policy instruments, urban planning at different scales, and research methods and decision support.

Career pathways

Alumni work in national, regional and local government, NGOs, consulting and finance, utilities and technology producers, real estate and housing, and education and research, for example as specialist consultants, resource managers, policy advisers or managers of energy and environmental infrastructure. REAP graduates do not automatically qualify for admission to a German chamber of architects.

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