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Acquisition of advanced individual knowledge in various fields of architecture and the ability to use this knowledge reflectively and strategically for architectural applications.

Future Cities focuses on climate resilience of the built environment on the urban scale. In Future Cities, students explore global concepts of urban sustainability and ecological design and combine mitigative and adaptive strategies for urban landscapes in the age of anthropogenic climate change. Students apply a participatory mixed-methods approach inclduing generative AI-tools to map, diagram, model, draw, and visualize project outcomes, research findings, and data through various media.

INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Future Cities is taught by an interdisciplinary team of instructors, including architecture, urban design + planning, geography, civil + environmental engineering.

COURSE ENVIRONMENT
This course includes guest speakers from the “Building Futures Series” and takes place at the Archiv für Bau.Kunst.Geschichte at Lois Welzenbacher Platz 1, 6020 Innsbruck. Students from the University of Texas at Arlington work collaboratively with students from the University of Innsbruck.

Global Campus Course: This course is open to students from LFU Innsbruck and UT Arlington. More information about the Alpinestudio International Program here: alpinestudioprogram.uta.edu