Master of Urban Design (MUD)
Master of Urban Design in the Department of Architecture at EMU is a 12 months’ (3 semesters) project-based interdisciplinary program at the Department of Architecture, offering a strong and focused learning experience for architects, landscape architects, and planners holding professional degrees developing design skills and expertise in urban design.
The program is built upon the key concerns of the contemporary cities - livability, sustainability and resilience and advocates the ecological turn in urban design. It deals with the design of cities under the parameters of new urban challenges considering the impact of climatic changes, urban sprawl, and conflict.
It aims to give knowledge about the use of administrative, legal, and fiscal tools with reference to local and global conditions.
The program makes full use of its setting in Cyprus, an island with great historical, traditional, and natural qualities and explores its evolving environments of settlements which act as wide-ranging planning and urban design laboratories for the studio-based projects. The international case studies are encouraged as well. Students share working methods, acquire additional skills, and explore new avenues of development under the supervision of an interdisciplinary group of faculty members. The program is integrated with other programs within the Faculty of Architecture.
Master of Science in Urban Design (MSc in UD)
MSc in Urban Design in the Department of Architecture at EMU is basically a research-based program including one urban design project which aims to contribute to the enhancement of the quality of cities. The program addresses urban design as a framework of research and practice and enables students to develop skills and techniques of communicating innovative and creative approaches in urban design with an emphasis on contemporary urban challenges such as smart cities, resilient cities, healthy community design, and ecology-human relations. The program seeks to develop students’ ability to analyse existing urban context and provide sustainable solutions for future city development in local as well as global scale.
It provides knowledge of urban concepts and issues, preparing architects, planners, landscape architects, and other relevant professionals to affect patterns of urbanization, manage urban growth, respond to urban problems, and sustain existing urban areas in an interdisciplinary and holistic context.
The program is also intended to act as an introductory vehicle for those wishing to pursue further research at PhD level. The program is run in collaboration with the Master of Urban Design program of the Department of Architecture through sharing the first semester design studio and compulsory courses.
