Diplôme d'architecte INSA Strasbourg (Diplôme d'État d'architecte valant grade de master) at INSA Strasbourg

INSA Strasbourg is accredited by the ministries of higher education and culture to award the architect diploma, which carries master's grade. It is the only school in France training both architects and engineers in one institution. Teaching centres on design practice with a technical culture, in a polytechnic setting, with transdisciplinary links to the engineering departments.

Department: Architecture (école d'architecture)  |  Duration: 5 years (bac+1 entry); study is coupled since 2014 with a Bachelor in architecture and engineering; internships total at least 24 weeks  |  Study mode: full-time (French, some courses in English)  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Strasbourg, Grand Est, France

What you will study

Five yearly stages: initiation (year 1), conceptualisation (year 2), contextualisation with urban and landscape territories (year 3), complexity with large-scale projects (year 4, partly taught in English in semester 7) and experimentation ending in the final-year project defended before a large jury (year 5). Includes a research dissertation and a first mandatory worker internship on site.

Career pathways

Designing sustainable living environments; graduates may continue to a professional or research master's (including the INSA master in urban planning), a doctorate in architecture, or the HMONP to practise in their own name.

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