Bachelor's Degree Course in “Architecture Sciences for Heritage”

Overview

The Bachelor's Degree Course in “Architecture Sciences for Heritage” is an international inter-university course, delivered in conventional mode (in-person) at theUniversity “Ismail Qemali” of Vlorë (Albania) and at the Polytechnic University of Bari (administrative headquarters of the Course). Through a structured and assisted mobility, students will complete the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th semesters at the University of Vlorë and the 3rd and 6th semesters at the Politecnico di Bari, where they will discuss their thesis and obtain their degree.

The Course is a three-year training program in Architecture focused on the themes and issues of Knowledge and Design for Heritage, understood in its broadest and most current sense.

The educational path is structured over three years organized on a semester basis. In its common path, this program is articulated according to two interpretations of the meaning of Heritage, one referring to architectural-archaeological Heritage and the other to urban-landscape Heritage. Training according to these two interpretations is completed, in addition to monographic courses, in the laboratories of the second and third years.

Students may choose to enhance their curricular training by selecting one of the three optional integrated courses, offered in the second semester of the third year. Two of these provide in-depth study regarding the two interpretations of the meaning of Heritage; the third offers an in-depth study of technical and digital cultures applied to architectural design and related to Heritage themes.

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Educational Objectives

Responding to needs expressed by the reference territories (Adriatic Ionian and Mediterranean macro-regions), the Course is dedicated to training a professional figure oriented towards the themes and issues of Knowledge and Design for Heritage, understood in its broadest sense as a good inherited from the past (far or recent) to which a value is collectively attributed, linked to its significance or its potential for renewal. An idea of Heritage that refers to 'extraordinary' heritage, architectural-archaeological and monumental, but also to 'ordinary' heritage. An idea of Heritage that unfolds in the architectural, urban, and landscape dimensions. This new way of looking at Heritage and understanding it as a resource for the development of cities, territories, and communities (Faro Convention, 2005), while at the same time raising issues of recognizability and accessibility, of re-signification and reuse, of protection and enhancement, requires new skills capable of combining conservation and transformation. It requires new modes of knowledge and interpretation and new techniques of composition, design, and planning that make it possible, case by case, to combine conservation concerns related to historical-documentary value with transformative concerns related to its re-signification and its correspondence to the needs of contemporaneity.

Location

University “Ismail Qemali” of Vlorë (Albania) and Polytechnic University of Bari.

Duration

The expected duration for the completion of this Course is 3 years.

Language

Classes, seminars, and laboratories are conducted in English language.

Admission

Admission is subject to passing the National Arched Test.

Study Plan BROCHURE GUIDE

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The Skills

The Course aims to train a professional figure capable of articulating the general skills corresponding to the qualifying educational objectives of the degree class in the direction of knowledge and transformation of the existing with the aim of its enhancement, through the actions of conservation as well as recovery and reconstruction.

EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES

Professional opportunities

The Course prepares for the profession of “Civil Construction Technician and related professions” (Istat Code 3.1.3.5.0).

The graduate with a bachelor's degree in “Sciences of Architecture for Heritage” will be able to work for government entities of cities, territories, and architectural, historical, cultural, and landscape assets, public and private companies, engineering and architecture firms, sector industries, and construction companies, or position themselves in the world of freelance work and consulting activities, carrying out autonomous or supportive activities, according to current regulations.

Specifically, they will be able to perform professional activities such as:

design, project management, supervision, measurement, accounting, and settlement related to simple civil constructions, using standardized methodologies, as well as direct and instrumental surveys of current and historical buildings;
collaboration in documentation, digitization, programming, design, project management, estimation, and testing of construction works, including public works, interventions for the organization and transformation of the built environment at various scales.

In Italy, graduates in Architecture Sciences for Heritage will be able to register, upon passing the State Exam, in the Register of the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, and Conservators, in the “Junior” section.

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Subsequent Training

Graduates in Architecture Sciences for Heritage will be able to continue their studies by choosing to enroll in first-level master's programs or inmaster's degree courses offered in Italy or internationally and obtain, in this case, the title of Master of Architecture.In particular, they may continue their educational path in the Master's Degree Course in Architecture that is expected to be established at the Polytechnic of Bari and the University of Vlorë, in order to provide continuity and completion to the educational project related to knowledge and design for Heritage.

DEPARTMENT ARCOD

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