Advanced School of Architecture (ASA)

Advanced School of Architecture (ASA)

The Honours Programme Advanced School of Architecture (ASA) of the Politecnico Milano is an "additive" training course that runs parallel to the Master's Degree Programs in Architecture (class LM-4). The mission of the ASA is to strengthen and develop the figure of the architect-designer, through design and research activities that put the student in direct contact with the professional reality and with the complexity of the processes currently underway in the various European and extra-European realities.

ASA is aimed at talented young students (20 per year) selected based on their educational background and the average achieved in the three-year degree course (or in the Bachelor's course for those coming from abroad) or in the three-year single-cycle five-year course.

Director Pierre-Alain Croset
info:
asa@polimi.it

Students from the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering at Politecnico Milano can apply:

  •  enrolled in the first semester for the current academic year in the first year of the following Master's degree courses (class LM/4):
    • Architectural Design History - Progettazione Architettonica e Storia
    • Architettura-Ambiente Costruito-Interni/Architecture - Built Environment - InteriorsArchitettura
    • Architettura delle Costruzioni/Building Architecture
    • Architettura e Disegno Urbano - Architecure and Urban Design
    • Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design - Architettura Sostenibile e Progetto del Pesaggio
       
  • enrolled in the fourth year of the single-cycle degree course in Construction Engineering - Architecture (class LM/4)

Practicum programme
The programme takes place over the two years of the Master's Degree and the fourth and fifth years of the Single Cycle through educational experiences, with compulsory attendance, of two types:

  1. Master Class
  2. Advanced project practice

Master Class
There are 3 Master Classes lasting one week, to be held at the Politecnico di Milano premises in the following periods:

  • Master Class 1 of architectural design, period beginning of Septemebr at the beginning of the second year of the MSc Magistrale / fifth year of the MSc Magistrale 5ys;
  • Master Class 2 of Architectural Design, period January-February in the middle of the second year of the MSc Magistrale /fifth year of the single-cycle Magistrale;
  • Master Class 3 of architectural design, period June-July at the end of the second year of the MSc Magistrale /fifth year of the single-cycle MSc Magistrale.

Advanced Design Practice
The Advanced Design Practice experience takes place after the end of the Master's degree/ single-cycle degree years, for at least 500 hours (15 weeks) in an architecture studio of excellence, to be chosen from a list of international studios affiliated to the Politecnico. 

Students will have to return the completeness of their design and professional experience as a 'logbook', with a critical text illustrated with sketches, drawings and photographs.

In keeping with the ASA's mission to strengthen and develop the figure of the architect-designer, the degree thesis must compulsorily be a project thesis (Research by Design), the elaboration of which may begin within one of the Master Classes or during the period of Advanced Project Practice in the architectural practice of excellence.

Honour Commitee 

  1. Ferruccio Resta
  2. Emilio Faroldi (Vice Rector)
  3. Ilaria Valente (Vice Rector for International Affairs)
  4. Manuela Grecchi (Vice Rector for Lecco Campus)
  5. Federico Bucci (Vice Rector for Mantova Campus)
  6. Guya Bertelli
  7. Kazuyo Sejima

Scientific Committee

  1. Benedetta Tagliabue
  2. Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra 
  3. Nathalie Régnier-Kagan
  4. Roger Riewe
  5. Mia Roth

Calls, Committees, Rankings

Call 
Applications: by 12:00 noon (Italian time) on 8th April 2024

Committee

Admitted to interview

  • GROUP 1 INTERVIEW
  • GROUP 2 INTERVIEW
  • GROUP 3 INTERVIEW

Ranking (final)

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