Architecture

专业详情

We live, work, learn, amuse ourselves and, even, cease living in them. Human constructions are as diverse as those who imagine them and those who live in them. They are born of people’s preoccupations and desires – technological, social, practical, aesthetic, cultural, economic and, more and more often, environmental.

Volume modeling, studying the light, daring to try new materials, or designing a structure are all tasks in which architects must demonstrate great creativity. The challenges of sustainable development which, for example, means careful use of energy, space, and soil, are today part and parcel of their approach.

However, architects are not always satisfied with purely conceptual work that can be carried out at a drawing table or in front of a screen: after having developed a project, it also falls to them to prepare its execution and to manage the building work, not unlike the conductor of an orchestra, overseeing the execution of the work which must be completed within the framework of the set budget and fixed deadlines. The architects’ field of activity has greatly widened during the past few years, because they can now practice their skills in fields ranging from heritage management to the remediation of sites and property valuation.

Training in Architecture must be able to meet varied problems. It relies on a structured methodological approach which incorporates the interdependency of the architect’s levels of action, namely land, city, and building.

Today, Bauhaus’ almost century-old premise “From the door handle to the city” must therefore be revised because architects work in increasingly complex fields which cannot be reduced to one discipline but which call for a set of combined skills.