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The Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte (DAU-Iscte), was created in 2007 following the area of Architecture and Urbanism being established at Iscte in 1999 with the Degree in Architecture. The origin of the area of Architecture and Urbanism occurred with the creation of the Master's Degree in Urban Design in 1995, which operated for a few years in conjunction with the departments of Sociology, Anthropology and Economics.
Currently the DAU is integrated into the Iscte School of Technologies and Architecture (ISTA) on a reference university campus located in the center of Lisbon and designed in different phases by the architect Raúl Hestnes Ferreira.
DAU brings together several scientific areas such as: Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism, Architectural Technologies and Geography and integrates a faculty of 20 professors and researchers with doctorates who, in addition to teaching activities, carry out research activities associated with the different Iscte Research Centers such as DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, (Study Center on Socioeconomic Change and the Territory), the ISTAR-IUL (Center for Research in Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture), the CIES-Iscte (Center for Research and Studies in Sociology) and the CRIA-Iscte (Center for Research Network in Anthropology).
The area of Arquitetura has a digital fabrication laboratory (Vitruvius FabLab) that works using technology and digital tools, promoting new approaches to the creative processes inherent to the practice of architecture.
DAU's main teaching products are the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture, where the aim is to create an intimate articulation between theoretical and practical training linked to professional practice, and the Doctorate in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, where the articulation of teaching and research are quite present.
Given the multidisciplinary nature of architecture and urbanism, the inclusion of DAU in Iscte, where social and economic sciences, technologies and management are considered areas of excellence in the national panorama, allows training and research in architecture and urbanism to be articulated with other disciplines, constituting an alternative to current training models in architecture and urbanism.
