Integrated Master in Architecture
Specialization Profiles
Upon completion of the 1st Cycle of Studies of the Integrated Master in Architecture, there is the possibility of choosing between the three specialization profiles:
Integrated Architecture | Urbanism, City and Territory | Interior Architecture and Building Rehabilitation
"...from the city to the building..."
"...from the buildings to build the city"
"... from the surrounding, natural and built, to rehabilitate and qualify the buildings..."
Check HERE the available applications
The degree of Master if given to those who demonstrate the capacity for understanding and resolution of problems in new situations that are not familiar. Inserted in broad and multidisciplinary contexts, this degree provides the capability to solve problems linked to architecture and urbanism, that is: the capacity to integrate knowledge, to deal with complex questions, to develop solutions or give informed judgements in situations of limited or incomplete information. Diverse reflections about the implications, ethical and social responsibilities will result from those solutions, judgements, and constraints. The ability to communicate knowledge, thought process and conclusions unambiguously to populations stems from that enlightening capability of owning competences, that allow future masters in architecture to carry out an autonomous learning throughout life.
The study is destined to all that seek to practice thinking and projecting the built space and its relationship with man.
Upon the approval of the Final Master Project, or Dissertation, or Internship, the masters in architecture acquire the status of professional architects, being habilitated to exercise the profession in a liberal way or in industry, commerce, education, research or in central, regional and local administration.
They also acquire the right of access to the Portuguese Architects Association.
Architects prepared for the conception, rehabilitation, and remodeling of buildings, sets of buildings, public and urban spaces, landscape and territory. The scope of their activity encompasses distinct functions that range from housing, to public and private services, culture, education, health, sports or industrial equipment.
Facing the challenges of the contemporary world, we prepare professionals that are capable of positioning themselves in a professional and disciplinary territory that demands a constant redefinition of the scope and nature of their intervention.
The teaching staff of the Integrated Master in Architecture with Specialization in Interior Architecture includes professionals with a vast experience in project, as well as teachers from the other curricular areas present in this training that teach the specific contents to each curricular unit in an integrative perspective and articulated by a global view of the course and competences to be acquired.
1st Year Coordinator: Professor Jorge Cruz Pinto;
2nd Year Coordinator: Professor João Pedro Costa;
3rd Year Coordinator: Professor Jorge Spencer.
- 2nd Cycle Specialization Profile in Integrated Architecture: Professor Pedro Rodrigues (pr@fa.ulisboa.pt)
1st Year Coordinator: Professor Hugo Farias;
2nd Year Coordinator: Professor Pedro Ravara.
- 2nd Cycle Specialization Profile in Urbanism, City and Territory: Professor Carlos Dias Coelho (diascoelho@fa.ulisboa.pt)
1st Year Coordinator: Professor João Leite;
2nd Year Coordinator: Professor Luís Carvalho.
- 2nd Cycle Specialization Profile in Interiors Architecture and Building Rehabilitation: Professor João Pernão (jnpernao@fa.ulisboa.pt)
1st Year Coordinator: Professor João Pernão;
2nd Year Coordinator: Professor Dulce Loução.
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MiARQ (1st Cycle) |
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| 1st Year | 1st Semester | HCW | ECTS |
| Design Studio I | 8 | 12 |
| Architectural Drawing I | 4 | 6 |
| Descriptive and Conceptual Geometry in Architecture | 4 | 6 |
| Applied Mathematics | 2 | 3 |
| City, Architecture and Art Culture | 2 | 3 |
| 1st Year | 2nd Semester | ||
| Design Studio II | 8 | 12 |
| Architectural Drawing II | 4 | 6 |
| Building Materials | 4 | 6 |
| History of Architecture I | 2 | 3 |
| Statics | 2 | 3 |
| 2nd Year | 1st Semester | ||
| Design Studio III | 8 | 12 |
| Digital Representation | 4 | 6 |
| Geography | 4 | 6 |
| Structural Design | 4 | 6 |
| 2nd Year | 2nd Semester | ||
| Design Studio IV | 8 | 12 |
| Physics and New Materials for Architecture | 4 | 6 |
| Architectural Drawing III | 4 | 6 |
| Geometric and Generative Modeling | 2 | 3 |
| History of Architecture II | 2 | 3 |
| 3rd Year | 1st Semester | ||
| Design Studio V | 8 | 12 |
| Urbanism and Territorial Planning | 6 | 9 |
| Building Technologies | 4 | 6 |
| History of Architecture III | 2 | 3 |
| 3rd Year | 2nd Semester | ||
| Design Studio VI | 8 | 12 |
| Interior Architecture and Building Rehabilitation | 6 | 9 |
| Infrastructures, Systems and Regulations | 4 | 6 |
| Theory of Architecture | 2 | 3 |
The Integrated Master in Architecture is developed in two cycles. The first cycle corresponds to the Bachelor in Architectural Studies and aims to provide students with basic and broad training in the disciplinary area. The second cycle affords the title of Master in Architecture and allows for a greater specialization of the training, whilst still being transversal, which allows graduates to approach a wide range of problems and varied scales, in multidisciplinary contexts, constituting a factor of employability.
The Architecture specialization is as much focused on the project of new buildings, as on the rehabilitation of existing buildings. The Interior Architecture specialization is more dedicated to the intervention and rehabilitation in pre-existing spaces, whilst the Urbanism specialization is focused on interventions in urban space and in the territory. (For more information, consult the respective study plans of the specializations in Interior Architecture, in Interiors and Rehabilitation of Constructed Spaces, and in Urbanism.)
| 1st year / 1st semester |
HCS |
ECTS |
| Architecture Laboratory I | 9 | 12,5 |
| Drawing | 6 | 7 |
| Conceptual and Descriptive Geometry I | 3 | 3,5 |
| Culture of Architecture and the City | 3 | 3,5 |
| Complements of Mathematics and Statistics | 3 | 3,5 |
| 1st year / 2nd semester | ||
| Architecture Laboratory II | 9 | 12,5 |
| Architectural Drawing I | 6 | 7,0 |
| Conceptual and Descriptive Geometry II | 3 | 3,5 |
| Materials | 3 | 3,5 |
| History of Contemporary Art | 3 | 3,5 |
| 2nd year / 3rd semester | ||
| Architecture Laboratory III | 9 | 12,5 |
| Architectural Drawing II | 3 | 3,5 |
| Physical Geography | 3 | 3,5 |
| History of Classical and Medieval Architecture | 3 | 3,5 |
| Buildings I - Support Elements | 3 | 3,5 |
| Digital Representation Systems in Architecture | 3 | 3,5 |
| 2nd year / 4th semester | ||
| Project Laboratory I | 9 | 12,5 |
| Drawing in the City | 3 | 3,5 |
| Buildings II - Coverings and Materials | 3 | 3,5 |
| Construction Physics | 3 | 3,5 |
| Urban Geography | 3 | 3,5 |
| History of Modern Architecture | 3 | 3,5 |
| 3rd year / 5th semester | ||
| Project Laboratory II | 9 | 12,5 |
| Buildings III - Networks and Technical Installations | 3 | 3,5 |
| Environmental Comfort | 3 | 3,5 |
| Urbanism I | 3 | 3,5 |
| Statics | 3 | 3,5 |
| Architecture Theory | 3 | 3,5 |
| 3rd year / 6th semester | ||
| Project Laboratory III | 9 | 12,5 |
| Urbanism II | 6 | 7,0 |
| History of Contemporary Architecture | 3 | 3,5 |
| Structures I | 3 | 3,5 |
| 3D Modelling and Visualization in Architecture | 3 | 3,5 |
Possibility to opt for a variant specialization area
| Specialization area in architecture | Specialization area in urbanism | ||||||
| 4th year / 7th semester | HCS | ECTS | 4th year / 7th semester | HCS |
ECTS | ||
| Project Laboratory IV | 9 | 12,5 | Project Laboratory IV | 9 | 12,5 | ||
| Technological Innovation and New Materials | 3 | 3,5 | Infrastructure and Urban Networks | 6 | 7 | ||
| Structures II | 3 | 3,5 | Law in Architecture and Urbanism | 3 | 3,5 | ||
| Place Theory | 3 | 3,5 | Urban Sociology | 3 | 3,5 | ||
| Urban Sociology | 3 | 3,5 | Urban Economics | 3 | 3,5 | ||
| Geometric and Generative Modelling | 3 | 3,5 | |||||
| 4th year / 8th semester | 4th year / 8th semester | ||||||
| Project Laboratory V | 9 | 13,0 | Project Laboratory V | 9 | 13 | ||
| Conservation, Restoration and Rehabilitation I | 3 | 3,5 | Landscape Architecture | 6 | 7 | ||
| History of Architecture in Portugal | 3 | 3,5 | Urbanism Theory and Methods | 3 | 3,5 | ||
| Rehabilitation and Conservation Technologies | 3 | 3,5 | Urban Administration | 3 | 3,5 | ||
| Project Economics | 3 | 3,5 | Optativa de Especialização | 3 | 3 | ||
| Optativa de Especialização | 1,5 | 1,5 | |||||
| Optativa de Especialização | 1,5 | 1,5 | |||||
| 5th year / 9th semester | 5th year / 9th semester | ||||||
| Project Laboratory VI | 9 | 13,0 | Project Laboratory VI | 9 | 13 | ||
| Buildings IV/Project Support | 3 | 3,5 | Urban Rehabilitation | 6 | 7 | ||
| Structural and Building Systems | 3 | 3,5 | Road and Transport Systems | 3,5 | 3,5 | ||
| Energy Efficiency and Environment | 3 | 3,5 | Optativa de Especialização | 3 | 3 | ||
| Optativas de Especialização | 1,5 | 1,5 | Investigation Seminars | 3,5 | 3,5 | ||
| Optativas de Especialização | 1,5 | 1,5 | |||||
| Investigation Seminars | 3 | 3,5 | |||||
| 5th year / 10th semester | 5th year / 10th semester | ||||||
| Master's Final Project / Dissertation* | 9 | 22,0 | Master's Final Project / Dissertation* | 9 | 22 | ||
| Support Seminars for MFP/Dissertation | 3 | 8,0 | Support Seminars for MFP/Dissertation | 3 | 8 |
1st and 2nd Cycle
ECTS Credit Units ECTS
HCS / WCH Weekly Contact Hours
* Curricular Units that contribute to the Master Final Project or Dissertation or Internship.
The Lisbon School of Architecture provides its students with a wide set of spaces to support academic life in its diverse stages, including: the library, the reprography, the ‘espaço 24 horas’ (24-hour space, where students can develop their work), the editorial centre, the multimedia office, the photography and videography studio, the cartography and media library, the computing centre (CIFA), the fashion design sewing atelier, the workshops, the rapid prototyping lab (LPR), the colour lab (LABCOR), the photography and synthesis image lab (LAFIS), the 3D scanning lab, the intellectual property and knowledge transfer office, and the School’s incubator.
FA.ULisboa professors have promoted Open Classes and Conferences of broad interest to the academic community.
View the latest editions HERE.
DGES accreditation and registration:
Integrated Master in Architecture
Initial registration: R/A-Ef 1822/2011 of 03-18-2011
Change records: R/A-Ef 1822/2011/AL01 of 20-04-2018
Integrated Master in Architecture Specialization in Interiors and Building Rehabilitation
Initial registration: R/A-Ef 1823/2011 of 03-18-2011
Change records: R/A-Ef 1823/2011/AL01 of 22-09-2014 | R/A-Ef 1823/2011/AL02 of 08-18-2016
A3ES
Dispatch of the Integrated Master in Architecture, in the Specialization Area in Architecture/ in the Specialization Area in Urbanism - Dispatch n.º 4723/2018 of May 14, 2018: Check the results HERE
Integrated Master in Architecture in the area of specialization in Urbanism: Check the results HERE
Integrated Master in Architecture with specialization in Interiors and Building Rehabilitation: Check the results HERE
Note: Awaiting publication for the year 2023.
Ranking of the Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa)
Architecture at the Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) gained enormous prominence at the international level by being positioned among the 12 best Universities in the world and among the 6 best in the European Union, in the international ranking SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) (2023).
1st Place in Portugal in the Main Rankings: SCIMAGO, ARWU, NTU, CWUR, URAP, CWTS-LEIDE (2022) Link