BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAM

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 1

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 10

Academic hours: 300 (in-class: 96, self-study: 204)

Course brief: 

In Semester 1, the Studio focuses on laying the practical foundation for the general training of a student of architecture, including basic architectural graphics, work with various projections, and development of spatial and compositional thinking. It also trains the skills of team work, project presentation, context analysis and, as a result, forms an understanding of architectural project work as a spatial projection of an idea based on research, analysis and imagination.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 2

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 10

Academic hours: 300 (in-class: 96, self-study: 204)

Course brief: 

The course discusses the house and housing as the Studio’s major foci this semester and trains freshmen-architects in the whole methodology of designing an architectural object with a familiar function. 

At the same time, project work done for a specific context and specific clients with their individual values provides grounds for research, critical analysis and discussion of the efficiency of using the existing housing typologies.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of a performed course project. 

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 3

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 10

Academic hours: 300 (in-class: 96, self-study: 204) 

Course brief: 

This semester the Studio focuses on a building with a public function (a school, a museum, a library, a theatre, etc.). It trains sophomores in the full methodology of designing a complex architectural edifice as early as in Semester 3. At the same time, designing for a specific context and specific clients with their individual values and views of the future provides grounds for research, critical analysis and discussion of the efficiency of using the existing buildings: standardised panel-based schools or community centres, etc.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of a performed course project.

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 4

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 10

Academic hours: 300 (in-class: 96, self-study: 204)

Course brief:

This semester, the Studio aims at providing experience in designing multifamily housing, from a flat to a whole house. To this end, the students will learn to conduct research into different quarter formats, multi storey housing and various life styles. 

As a result, in their projects the students will be able to reveal the interrelation between the space and its occupants, to acquire the skill of parallel multi-scale thinking (ranging from a flat to a house), to analyse prototypes, to use the layout and the section as the main design work projections and also to conduct critical analysis and to make a high-quality presentation of their architectural project.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of a performed course project.

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 1

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116)

Course brief: 

The course in Tectonics is a component of the Technical Block focusing on the study of architectural space in relation to architectural constructions and materials. The course includes theoretical lectures, yet, most of its academic time is scheduled for self-study, which enables the students to practice the lecture material by way of prototyping, model-making and technical drawing and to supplement it with individual research. 

The goal of the course is to form an understanding of the materials constructive properties according to a specific architectural intention.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 2

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116)

Course brief: 

The course is a component of the Technical Block and part 1 of a one-year course focusing on the study of architectural space in relation to architectural constructions and materials. 

The course includes theoretical lectures, but most of the academic time is scheduled for self-study, which enables the students to practice the lecture material by way of prototyping, model-making and technical drawing and to supplement it with individual research. 

The goal of the course is to form an understanding of construction schemes and materials according to a specific architectural intention.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 3

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116) 

The course is a component of the Technical Block focusing on the study of architectural space in relation to architectural constructions and materials. The course offers theoretical lectures, but most of the academic hours is scheduled for self-study, which enables the students to practice the lecture material by way of prototyping, model-making and technical drawing and to supplement it with individual research. 

In Semester 3, the course aims at forming an understanding of construction schemes and mechanical properties of materials according to a specific architectural intention. The course objectives are  to introduce static construction schemes and specific distribution of tensions in different materials, to train the students to apply the schemes in their professional work when analysing the strength of a construction.

Final control: Exam

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 4

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116)

Course brief:

The course is a component of the Technical Block focusing on the study of architectural space in relation to architectural constructions and materials. The course offers theoretical lectures, but most of the academic time is scheduled for self-study, which enables the students to practice the lecture material by way of prototyping, model-making and technical drawing and to supplement it with individual research. This Semester, the goal of the course is to form an understanding of construction schemes of buildings on the basis of the mechanical properties of materials according to a specific architectural intention. The course objective is to introduce methods of creating construction schemes of residential buildings, performing comparative analysis and studying the variety of alternative solutions in the context of different boundary conditions and standard construction tasks.

Final control: Exam

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 1

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 5

Academic hours: 150 (in-class: 48, self-study: 102)

Course brief: 

The course integrates cultural anthropology and the theory of a city and starts the BA programme in the Humanitarian Block at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. Its goal is to plunge the students into the context of a modern city (a specific neighbourhood, street, square, building and its surrounding area, etc.) which provides the environment for various processes and complex scenarios. The course focuses on developing the skills of basic observation, in-depth description and interpretation of the city and urban life.

During the semester, the students work with theoretical references, read and discuss them at seminars, do field research of the area designated at the start of the semester, write their own texts and publicly present the results of their research and its interpretation.

Final control: Exam

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 2

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 5

Academic hours: 150 (in-class: 48, self-study: 102)

Course brief: 

In its first part, the course investigates the issue of contemporary housing and plunges the students into research of specific 20th century housing landmarks. The students will describe and analyse the architecture of contemporary housing focusing on its architectural concept and quality.  

In its second part, the course focuses on the issue of private housing within the broader context of consumption. After studying individual dwellings, the students continue with family housing; they discuss today’s challenges faced by an architect within the post-colonial paradigm in the Humanities.   

The goal of the course is to expand the students’ vision of various approaches to project work, planning and stylistic solutions in the architecture of contemporary housing, to develop critical sociological vision of urban life and the ability to apply sociological theory to analysing neighbourhood communities.

Final control: Exam 

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 2

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 3

No. of academic hours: 90 (in-class hours: 32, self-study: 58)

Course brief: 

The course is an integral part of the Humanitarian Block of the BA Programme. It aims at developing the students’ EFL competence and broadening their scope in English-speaking architectural culture. The course gives the students an opportunity to acquire linguistic and cultural competences and to form a system of speaking, reading, writing and listening skills within the context of the Humanitarian, the Technical and the Studio Blocks as part of the students’ professional training in architectural project work and urban planning.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 3

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116) 

Course brief: 

Where do we learn about culture? How does the system of education develop? What kind of things get into museums? How are libraries stocked? What do we consider valuable, store, return to and why?

The goal of the course is to answer the urgent question: what is the place of education and upbringing of an individual within the larger frame of freedom? To achieve the set goal, during the 16-week course we will discuss several basic (and undoubtedly valuable) texts by contemporary philosophers and architects (Rem Kolhaas, Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt) in the slow reading format; consider the phenomena of the school and the library within the global and the local contexts and also conduct a research about the challenges for an individual studying in today’s Ukraine.

Final control: Exam

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 4

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116) 

Course brief:

This course is a review of the historical development of urban form, the key issues and instruments of urban planning and the role of urban reformers and planning pioneers in the evolution of the concept of the modern city. 

Historic large-scale city building campaigns and significant urban interventions will serve as a background to the discussion of the fundamental principles of urban planning defined in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The ideological battles of the twentieth century and the urgent issues faced by the profession today will be examined in order to understand the boundaries and the interdisciplinary nature of the profession and define a new planning agenda for the future of the Ukrainian city.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 1

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 5

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116)

Course brief: 

The course is a component of the Skills Block aimed at training the applied aspects of architectural profession. Hence, it offers only practical classes, which this semester include manual architectural graphics, sketching, computer processing, technical drawing, model-making, architectural photography and project work organization.   

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 1 year

Semester: 2

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 5

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116)

Course brief: 

The goal and objectives of the course are to master the basic methods of constructing 2D images of spatial objects; to develop the skill of imaginary recreation of a spatial object from its 2D image.

After completing this course, the students will have the command of: 

– basic RhinoCeros 3D

– basic Adobe Photoshop

– various materials for model-making

– composition skills

– axonometric projections

– isometric projections

– methods of composing and reading technical drawings

– one-point, two-point and three-point perspectives

– the grid method and the architectural method for creating a perspective 

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks. 

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 3

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116) 

The course is a component of the Skills Block aimed at training an applied architectural skill. Hence, it offers only practical classes in computer-assisted simulation and drawing, model-making with NC machine tools and a laser-cutter, architectural photography and work organization. The course offers 4 in-class and 5 self-study hours on the weekly basis and aims at developing computer skills required to create architectural projects.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.

Academic year: 2 year

Semester: 4

Specialisation: 191 Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS credits: 6

Academic hours: 180 (in-class: 64, self-study: 116)

Course brief:

The discipline consists of a series of workshops dedicated to digital tools for designing and presenting architectural projects. The purpose of the course is to develop the skills of digital design, prototyping and presentation of architectural projects.

Main task: to introduce the methods and tools of creating digital models and drawings, to design and further represent the architectural design.

Students acquire the basics of digital design with Revit or Archicad programs (elective). Skills for creating digital 3D models in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper for further prototype production using CNC, laser cutting and 3D printer. Laser scanning skills, point cloud work and photogrammetry that help future architects capture and reproduce the environment. To further represent the architectural projects, use the development of architectural graphics in Photoshop. Video shooting and editing are the final aspects of this semester’s presentation skills.

Final control: Pass/fail exam based on the results of all the performed tasks.