Integrated Master Degree

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6 Years
31 Jul 2025
Accreditation DGES
Initial registry R/A-Ef 3381/2011 de 18-03-2011
Update registry R/A-Ef 3381/2011/AL03 de 03-06-2025
Contacts
School of Technology and Architecture
Secreatariat
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E07
secretariado.ista @iscte.pt
(+351) 210 464 013
9:30 - 18:00

Tuition fee EU nationals (2025/2026)

1.stYear 697.00 €
2.rdYear 697.00 €
3.thYear 697.00 €
4.thYear 697.00 €
5.thYear 697.00 €

Tuition fee non-EU nationals (2025/2026)

1.ndYear 7000.00 €
2.thYear 7000.00 €
3.thYear 7000.00 €
4.thYear 7000.00 €
5.thYear 7000.00 €
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Lectured in Portuguese
Teaching Type In person

The Integrated Master degree in Architecture has a duration of 10 semesters, corresponding to 300 ECTS credits: 180 ECTS in the first cycle (3 years) and 120 ECTS in the second cycle (2 years).

Programme Structure for 2025/2026

1st Year
Theory and History of Architecture I
3.0 ECTS
Drawing I
6.0 ECTS
Architecture II
12.0 ECTS
Drawing II
6.0 ECTS
Geography I
3.0 ECTS
Fundamentals of Building Physics
6.0 ECTS
Architecture I
12.0 ECTS
Architectural Culture
3.0 ECTS
Geography II
3.0 ECTS
2nd Year
Theory and History of Architecture II
6.0 ECTS
Construction Systems II
6.0 ECTS
Architecture III
12.0 ECTS
Architecture IV
12.0 ECTS
Construction Systems I
6.0 ECTS
Drawing III
6.0 ECTS
Visual Communication I
6.0 ECTS
Theory and History of Architecture III
6.0 ECTS
3rd Year
Urbanism I
6.0 ECTS
Theory and History of Architecture IV
6.0 ECTS
Architecture VI
12.0 ECTS
Visual Communication II
6.0 ECTS
Architecture V
12.0 ECTS
Theory and History of Architecture V
6.0 ECTS
Constructions Systems IV
6.0 ECTS
Constructions Systems III
6.0 ECTS
4th Year
Environment and Sustainability
6.0 ECTS
Architectural Conservation and Rehabilitation
6.0 ECTS
Architecture Project I
12.0 ECTS
Architecure Project II
12.0 ECTS
Urbanism II
6.0 ECTS
Urbanism III
6.0 ECTS
Internship in Architecture
6.0 ECTS
5th Year
Urban Management
6.0 ECTS
Architecture Final Project
42.0 ECTS
Project and Construction Management
6.0 ECTS

Recommended optative

Optional courses will only be held if they achieve a minimum number of enrollments.

1st semester, 4th year

03555 | Humanitarian Urbanism and Collaborative Processes

2nd semester

03141 | Contemporary Religious Architecture (ISTA | TA)

5th year | 1.º semester

01827 – Ecological Urbanism (ISTA | URB) 

Objectives

It is intended that students, in terms of knowledge, skills and competences, be capable of:

Knowledge:

  • Have a solid and comprehensive architectural and urban culture;
  • Know the methodologies of the project;
    To know the materials and the constructive systems, as well as the physical phenomena related to its performance and its degradation;
  • To know the aspects related to the infrastructure of the territory, the city and the constructions;
  • Know the normative structures of construction and urbanism.

    Aptitudes:
  • Have a domain of representation and communication of ideas, spaces and forms;
  • Have the capacity for analysis and synthesis, as well as coordinate and organize;
  • Recognize the ethical and aesthetic dimensions underlying the building and the humanized territory;
  • To recognize the morphology and the natural physical environment, integrating them in the readings and the proposals of creation and transformation of the territory, the cities and the constructions;
  • Determine functional and architectural performance properties of constructive solutions;

To use digital tools for the production, management and representation of architecture and the city, integrating them both in the development of the project, and in the collection and systematization of data on the project itself and the built reality.

Skill

  • Develop a progressive methodological and conceptual autonomy;
  • Develop capacity to integrate and lead multidisciplinary work environments;
  • To conceive architecture projects, in their various scales of intervention, that equate critically the ethical, aesthetic, functional and technological dimensions of contemporaneity.

The learning goals are implemented in the curricular plan within the various CUs through their processes of teaching and learning, furthering the objectives of the programme. The fulfillment of these objectives if affirmed in the various processes of evaluation for each course. This measure depends on the CU and the specific content for evaluation, as well as the potential for final numerical classification.

To train architects for disciplinary work leading towards the (re)creation, (re)organization and (re)signification of the physical space of society and its individuals, this program fosters in students an architectural way of thinking with artistic, social, and technological dimensions, in which science and technique combine into poetic and ethic thought.

It is intended that students:

  • Experiment, represent and communicate ideas, spaces and forms, framed in the methodology of the project and in the architectural and urban culture, as well as contextualized in the urban phenomena and the organization of the territory, real and current;
  • Know the materials and the constructive and functional systems, as well as the ecological demands of contemporaneity, integrating them in the architectural thinking;
  • Use traditional and innovative production and design methodologies and tools, exploring emerging digital instruments, prioritizing rigor and knowledge for a critical positioning in relation to the conditions of the profession.

Contacts
School of Technology and Architecture
Secreatariat
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E07
secretariado.ista @iscte.pt
(+351) 210 464 013
9:30 - 18:00
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