Architecture Program

"My education at UPC's Architecture program provided me with a variety of approaches to face architectonic and urban projects. The courses, in general, encouraged the development of divergent and creative thinking. Moreover, thanks to the Housing and Urbanism Master's degree that I pursued in the Architectural Association in London, I have been able to deeply explore the existing relationship between the architectonic project and the city in its different intervention scales."

MARIANELA CASTRO DE LA BORDA
Alumna
Workshop 3 and Urbanism Seminar Professor at UPC

 

"At UPC you really get to live what you learn. I studied Architecture and enrolled in the China-Japan project and, thanks to my high weighted average, I was able to travel and see the architectonic structures I studied in class. It was a highly rewarding experience."

NATHALY JESSEN
Alumna
Assistant in the Drawing and Design area at Target Arquitectos Asociados

 

"UPC trains architects prepared to take an active role within the industry. Theoretical knowledge regarding art, architecture and technology—as well as practical knowledge—are components of its academic program, an important part of an essential global knowledge. Additionally, the reduced amount of students per professor in the workshops translates into a highly personalized education. Undoubtedly, this is an advantage for UPC students over other universities' students. On a personal level, important competencies acquired during my studies, such as questioning, critical thinking and commitment with society, were decisive to then explore and develop a personal judgment regarding the concept of architecture."

ROXANNE LEVY
Alumna 
2010 Master´s degree in Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

 

"The University has the great virtue of acknowledging its students' efforts and hard work with privileges. I greatly valued that quality since my freshman year. Additionally, teaching is practical and goes beyond a piece of paper. On the other hand, relationships between faculty and students are personalized, thus allowing students to perform in a relaxed and pleasant academic environment.
Finally, at a more specific level, the School of Architecture where I study trains architects with technical skills and rational minds, which are the foundations to guarantee a satisfactory future work performance. Personally, I feel firmly supported by the knowledge acquired at university."

ESTEBAN ÑÁÑEZ
AEG Student

"On an academic level, I feel satisfied as a School of Architecture student at UPC. The environment offered by the University is ideal for my learning and critical thinking development. Besides, UPC—recognizing my good performance as a student—offered me the possibility to belong to a leadership program, which promotes my soft skills and my personality as a good leader and human being. My professors have given their best to transform me, aiming at my own benefit and society's. I deeply appreciate them because of this. Getting the Laureate Academic Excellence Scholarship and the Lumni academic credit are some of my recent achievements. At the moment I am carrying out my pre-professional internship in the firm of the architect Juan Carlos Doblado; in the future I would like to have my own real-state business with a high social impact, after having finished graduate studies in Germany."

KERVIN NOBOA
AEG Student

 

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20 years UPC: Rafael Contreras, Architecture Program Alumnus