Urbanism Fontys Academy of the Arts

The educational concept of this Master program is unique; education in concurrency with employment in a professional practice. This concurrent education offers students experience and education beyond the school curriculum, essential to their professional formation as urban designers. Additionally, the Academy itself is a laboratory for spatial assignments from real stakeholders. Our tutors are professionals from a variety of disciplines, but all with a strong relation to practice.

The Design Studio is the heart of the master program. In the studio students are trained to apply all kinds of skills and methods towards ever more convincing design proposals for complex spatial problems. The studio assignments are invariably related to the complexity of contemporary societies and will engage social, cultural, political, economic and technological parameters.

Entry requirements

Required degree

• Bachelor (B/ BSc) Architecture
• Bachelor (B) Art Academy (Architectural design/ Interior design)

According to the Code of Conduct regarding International Students, international students seeking admittance to an English-taught Masters programme must be able to prove that their command of the English language is at least equal to a score of 6.0 of the IELTS Test.

Admission to the study programme is subject to the following qualitative admission requirements. 
• CV 
• Portfolio 
• Motivation letter 
• Admission interview 

Applicants are required to:

Work a minimum of 20 hours a week in a relevant practice (Architect’s firm or related).
The Academy offers alternative practice studio’s for students who are temporarily unable to find a regular job. In these alternative practice studio’s students will work on assignments by real stakeholders and will be supervised by practitioners. There is usually no remuneration for participating students.

The application deadline is 1st of May, but we advise Non-EU students to apply as soon as possible to get a visa, living arrangements and a relevant employment.