The graduate will get general knowledge and number of acquirements. He/she builds up a global overview of the societal development, its history and changes in the relationship between civilisation and architecture. He/she has been given basic knowledge from many fields; he/she understands the interdependencies and is able to apply the knowledge and skills in a suitable manner. He/she is oriented in problems, understands the cause and causality, recognises values and is able to set priorities. As an architect, he/she is able to deliver on the brief in all the necessary objective and subjective parameters; he/she is also able to cast a critical eye and consider the long-term implications. In the course of his/her practice, the graduate acts autonomously and creatively, and works with information, good practice and experience in a responsible manner. He/she is capable of a professional dialogue with clients, institutions and the public at large; he/she is able to conduct a focused discussion and use arguments. Also during professional practice, and in the course of the follow-up studies the graduate is capable of teamwork and effective collaboration with professionals from other fields.
Architectural design is the graduate’s key acquired competence, which practically and systematically draws on knowledge from other courses. The students become proficient in the individual phases of the design process – from analysing the brief, through searching for a concept and a form, to the final presentation of the design. In order to be able to design projects and present them in the visual form, an architect needs to cultivate his/her artistic sensibilities, master traditional and digital means and the basics of the relevant arts and crafts. The graduate is proficient in the basic design and graphic software, and is well versed in making three-dimensional models from different materials. The graduate will also learn the fundamentals of construction structures, materials and technologies in construction, and the way of applying them in principle and in detail in the design. In addition to design itself, the graduate is oriented in theory and critique; he/she is able to assess the quality of existing and projected architecture in all material respects. The study incorporates practical experience – orientation in processes at a construction site, real aspects of architectural practice; cognition of existing buildings, spaces and urban patterns and, last but not least, current issues of the architectural profession and its ethical dimension.
The graduate of the study programme will also acquire a number of additional skills and knowledge, especially through the courses in the history of architecture, urbanism and the arts; the application of these disciplines in the field of conservation, revitalisation and renovation, as well as in the largely marginalised field of landscape architecture, urban planning and public space design.