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Introduction
The Berlage is a
laboratory where
participants from
all over the world
research and
design architectural
and urban design
projects for the
twenty first century.
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In the second decade of the twenty-frst century, global shifts of
culture, economy, and geopolitical power structures continue to
redefne the built environment on an unprecedented scale. The
Berlage Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design program
aims for a unique, international postgraduate education within this
context. Building upon its legacy of international research, along
with its excellent global network of alumni, students, practitioners,
and scholars, the Berlage provides students with the knowledge
and skills to enter more advanced levels of globally oriented
architectural practice. Its mission is to create an environment to test
and communicate models, insights, and principles from a global
perspective, educating architects and urban designers as a global
professionals engaged in reality-based research and design.
The practice of architecture and urban design has become
increasingly global. On the one hand, the spread of professional
skills and new technologies around the world has expanded the
market for international design services. On the other hand, diferent
regions around the world are dealing with similar questions such as
urban sprawl, rapid urbanization, the consequences of aging, and the
challenges of the middle class.
It is tempting to view architects and urban designers as members of
a global, cosmopolitan culture that transcends national boundaries
and identities. Drawings, technologies, clients, and workforces fow
easily between continents and cultures. Yet designers still confront
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with strong international profles. At the basis of the program is the
explorative nature of research and intellectual curiosity. The Berlage
ofers an international, one-and-a-half-year English-language
postgraduate Master of Science-degree program in architecture
and urban design, as well as complementary public programming
of distinctive lectures, exhibitions, and other events. As a small-
scale institution, the Berlages students work very closely with a
distinguished network of scholars, professionals, and innovators.
Studying at the Berlage, prepares students for a more international
future. Students not only to learn how to understand the complexities
of the contemporary built environment but they also learn how to
operate and innovate within them.
Nanne de Ru
Director
Salomon Frausto
Head of Education
the sometimes intractable characteristics of local conditions. The
organization of the construction industry varies widely from nation to
nation, with profound consequences for building design. National and
local governments continue to defne specifc legal frameworks with
a large impact on building practice. And, signifcantly, value systems
remain strongly bound to culture: particular social and cultural norms
continue to efect dwelling patterns, models of collective and public
space, and notions of privacy.
How can we learn from diferent cultures of building all over the globe?
How can a designer perform within the clash of cosmopolitanism and
localism? Which design strategies and research approaches allow
for mediation between international and local conditions? How can
a globally oriented designer engage with local mores and trades?
Do practitioners who operate internationally have an ethical duty to
assist in the transfer of new skills to local architects? These questions
underscore the new reality of architectural practice: globalization
afects every practitioner, even those practitioners who never leave
their home nations.
The Berlage has created an educational program to meet the
challenges of globally oriented practice by expanding the range
of education architects receive and by redefning the methods,
instruments, and approaches of research and design practice. Based
in Delft, the Netherlands, the Berlage is situated within the heart of
the Dutch architectural landscape, known for its innovative practices
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About the
Berlage
History
Organization
Program Advisory Committee
Collaborations
Public Program
Master Classes
Fieldwork
Presentations
Facilities and Services
Admissions Procedure
To study at the
Berlage is not only
to learn how to
understand the
complexities of our
contemporary built
environment, but
also how to operate
and innovate within
them.
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COLLABORATIONS The Berlage collaborates with the International
Architecture Biennale Rotterdam; the Shenzhen Urban Border Bi-City
Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2013; and the New Institute in
Rotterdam.
PUBLIC PROGRAM The public programming aims to stimulate
the international debate on architecture and its related felds, and
expresses the Berlages central commitment to engage with the world
beyond its walls. It consists of outstanding public lectures and events
as well as master classes and workshops with both established and
emerging architects, artists, designers, and scholars. Recent lecturers
include Emre Arolat, Charles Bessard, Petra Blaisse, Yung Ho Chang,
Adriaan Geuze, Herman Hertzberger, Kengo Kuma, Sbastien Marot,
Valerio Olgiati, Joan Ockman, Peter Wilson, Go Hasegawa, Patrick
Healy, Daan Roosegaarde, Madelon Vriesendorp, Ma Yansong, and
Jason Young. For the Fall of 2014-2015 The Berlage will present a
series of public event exploring the dialog between thinking and
making in architectural practice. From September 2014 to January
2015, leading and emerging architects and designers at the forefront
of innovation will present their recent work. They will focus on how
innovative forms of research infuence their work. The series aims to
stimulate and contribute to the international debate on the relationship
between thinking and making in architectural practice, expressing the
Berlages central commitment to link theory and practice.
HISTORY The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture
and Urban Design builds on the legacy of the former Berlage Institute.
The Berlage Institute was established in 1990 as an international study
program for architects, urban designers, and landscape architects
to promote excellence in architecture and urban design. In 2012, it
became an independent entity based at the Faculty of Architecture
and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology (TU
Delft), where it changed its name to the Berlage Center for Advanced
Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, or the Berlage for short.
During twenty-three years, the Berlage has created a body of more
than 300 alumni from over 52 countries, creating a global network of
knowledge and professional interaction.
ORGANIZATION The Berlage is a privately funded, small-scale
institution that consists of a small permanent staf, and a large
international network of architects and designers that teach, lecture,
and contribute through shared publications, and exhibitions. This group
of leading and emerging practitioners and scholars assures that the
Berlage engages with the most recent developments in architectural
practice and thinking.
PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE The Berlage defnes both
its educational and public programming in close consultation with
its program advisory committee, which meets three times per year.
Members include Tom Avermaete, Yung Ho Chang, Jean-Louis
Cohen, Ellen van Loon, Michelle Provoost, and Daan Roosegaarde.
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with local authorities and practitioners. In addition, students visit
canonical and contemporary examples of architecture and urban
design projects in Europe in the frst term.
PRESENTATIONS Every project has at least two presentations in
which students present there work to the public. In this way, students
learn how to publicly state their ideas and learn how to present
research work and work in progress to a professional audience. At the
Berlage, we invite a wide range of architects, stakeholders, and critics
to attend the presentations and refect upon the work. This creates a
unique atmosphere of critical refection and cultural exchange between
the students and the visiting architects, scholars and thinkers.
FACILITIES AND SERVICES Facilitated by the Faculty of
Architecture and the Built Environment, students will be able to
proft from interaction with the TU Delfts community, facilities, and
resources. In collaboration with the TU Delft, the Berlage assists its
students with their visa application, in fnding housing, contracting
insurance, and opening a Dutch bank account. Furthermore, students
can make use of the excellent libraries and model workshop facilities.
ADMISSIONS PROCEDURE For admission requirements and the
application procedure, please check our website www.theberlage.
nl. The application period for the 20142015 academic year starts 15
September 2013 and closes 1 July 2014. The tuition fee for 2014-2015
is set at 16.333 per academic year, thus 24.500 for all three terms.
MASTER CLASSES Twice a year, the Berlage organizes two
intensive two-week master classes led by distinguished architects
and professionals from related felds. One master class is organized
around a design assignment; the other emphasizes a theoretical issue.
During the two weeks, students work closely with the master, attend
lectures related to the assignment, and participate in presentations,
creating a high-intensity week of content and production. The master
classes are open to a limited number of outside participants, including
students and professionals. Previous masters include Dominique
Perrault, Rem Koolhaas, Herman Hertzberger and Ole Bouman. For
the 20132014 academic year, Madelon Vriesendorp and Sbastien
Marot are invited as masters. The results of selected master classes
maybe published and/or exhibited, as well as further developed for
future study. The result of the fall 2012 master class, led by Herman
Hertzberger, was published as a special insert to Volume magazine
in spring 2013. The Berlage Fall master class will be led by Ben van
Berkel and will take place from 13 to 20 November 2014. The master
class will promote a design-driven discourse on the changing role of
the architect in order to defne new felds and conditions of work. This
master class is open to a limited of external participants.
FIELDWORK Students take part in feldwork that is integrated into
the project curriculum during the frst two terms. They broaden and
expand their acquaintance with international practices, cultural
institutions, and universities by attending workshops, seminars,
lectures, and excursions organized by the Berlage in close association
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c o l l e c t i v e p u r s u i t s , p e r s o n a l a s p i r a t i o n s , a n d t h e c o n t e m p o r a r y w o r l d . C o n s i s t i n g o f a s e r i e s o f d e s i g n a n d r e s e a r c h p r o j e c t s ,
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c o n t e x t s a r c h i t e c t u r e a n d u r b a n d e s i g n c a n c o n t r i b u t e a n d e n r i c h s o c i e t a l l i v e l i h o o d .
A l l e v e n t s a r e f r e e a n d o p e n t o t h e p u b l i c , u n l e s s o t h e r w i s e n o t e d
T h e B e r l a g e
p u b l i c e v e n t s f a l l 2 0 1 4
4 . 9 T H E G O O D L I F E
1 2 . 9 T H E F U T U R E O F
A R C H I T E C T U R E I S I N T H E P A S T
1 8 . 9 P A T I E N T ( R E ) S E A R C H
2 6 . 9 T O B E D E T E R M I N E D 9 . 1 0
R E C E N T P R O J E C T S 2 4 . 1 0
B I O G R A P H I C A L C O N S T R U C T
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T H E P U B L I C = T H E S P A C E I N
B E T W E E N 2 8 . 1 1 M O M E N T A R Y
M A N I F E S T O F O R P U B L I C
A R C H I T E C T U R E
1 2 . 1 2 O H , L A B E L L E V I E
8 . 1 S O U R C E M A T E R I A L
4.9 NANNE DE RU
12.9 GILLES PERRAUDIN
18.9 KENNETH FRAMPTON
26.9 JING LUI
9.10 MANUEL AIRES MATEUS
24.10 PASCAL FLAMMER
13.11 BEN VAN BERKEL*
14.11 RIANNE MAKKINK
28.11 HEDWIG HEINSMAN
12.12 JEAN & LUC LARNAUDIE
8.1 DAVID VAN SEVEREN
The Berlage
public events fall 2014
The Berlage will present a series of public events exploring the dialog between thinking and making in architectural practice.
From September 2014 to January 2015, leading and emerging architects and designers at the forefront of innovation will present
their recent work. They will focus on how innovative forms of research infuence their work. The series aims to stimulate and
contribute to the international debate on the relationship between thinking and making in architectural practice, expressing the
Berlages central commitment to link theory and practice.
* The Berlages fall design master class, entitled Architecture without ArchitectsArchitects without Architecture?, will be led
by Ben van Berkel and will take place from 13 to 21 November 2014. It will promote a design-driven discourse on
the changing role of the architect in order to defne new felds and conditions of work.
This master class is open to a limited number of external participants.
For more information on these events, along with program updates, please visit www.theberlage.nl/events
Focus
Cross-culturalism as a principal
Engagement with reality
Alternative forms of practice
Responsiveness to current developments
Focus on social sustainability
Leading and emerging designers
The Berlage
activates the cross-
cultural character of
its students, tutors,
and invited guests
to introduce the
next level of debate
and reflection
on architecture,
urbanism and its
related fields.
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related to or completely outside of the feld of architecture. However,
recent changes in building production, as well as current economic
conditions, have accelerated the need for emerging professionals
to move beyond traditional architectural and urban design practice.
Hence, the Berlage points not just to the possibility but also to the real
necessity of exploring how architecture is played out in a multiplicity
of settings, ofering new opportunities for architects and other spatial
designers.
The Berlage defnes its program according to the following six foci:
1. CROSS-CULTURALISM AS A CONDITION OF PRACTICE AND
AS AN EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLE The Berlage is cross-cultural
in two ways: First, the educational curriculum is developed to qualify
designers able to operate in an international and, thus, cross-
cultural feld. This implies developing specifc tools, instruments,
and approaches that allow designers to act across cultural borders.
Second, the Berlage uses the cross-cultural character of its student
and tutor population to introduce a diferent level of debate and
refection within education. Tutors and especially students are
asked to bring the experience of their local cultural conditions to
the program, such that the development of new architectural tools,
instruments, and approaches are immediately discussed and
evaluated within a broader cultural framework.
The Berlage meets the challenges of globally oriented practice by
expanding the range of education architects receive and by redefning
the methods, instruments, and approaches of research and design
practice. Its program focuses intensively on how architects and
urban designers practice in a globalized world, concentrating on
the complex development of the built environment within diferent
contexts.
The Berlage uses the cross-cultural character of its students,
tutors, and invited guests to introduce a diferent level of debate
and refection on architecture and its related felds. Its population
is asked to bring the experience of their local cultural conditions
to the program, such that the development of new architectural
tools, instruments, and approaches are immediately discussed and
evaluated within a broader cultural framework.
The Berlage is embedded in a reality-based frame of reference, as
represented by the public authorities, cultural institutions, and private
entities, with which students directly communicate and debate at
diferent moments of their education. This commitment to reality
prompts a diferent type of refection, speculation, and understanding
of todays architectural and urban challenges.
The Berlage prepares graduates for innovative career paths. Due
to the broad education and generalist practice of an architect,
individuals with an architectural education regularly pursue careers
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4. RESPONSIVENESS TO CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS The
Berlage is characterized by high degree of responsiveness to current
developments. Each year, the curriculum is organized according to
a set of defned themes. These themes are determined in response
to current issues and developments in the discipline. In general, the
aim of the curriculum is to address supra disciplinary knowledge,
by relating institutional research ambitions to other disciplines
(economy, sociology, ecology, etc.); and sub-disciplinary knowledge,
by focusing on specifc aspects of architectural and urban design
production (planning, organization, representation, typology, etc.).
The curriculum includes lectures, seminars, master classes and
reviews by specialists, and feldwork, all of which contribute to
a deeper understanding of the themes at hand and help young
professionals respond to the challenge of contemporary economic
and environmental crises.
5. FOCUS ON SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT Sustainability and ecology are at the crux of
contemporary architectural discourse and urban political rhetoric.
The Berlage aims to move away from a traditionally dominant image
of sustainability and will instead focus on how to analyze the built
environment, lifestyles, and life choices as populations age, grow,
and become increasingly embroiled in a global society. It will focus
on an integrated design approach to create new models for a more
sustainable global future. Design principles will then be deployed
and articulated into concrete urban and architectural settings.
2. ENGAGEMENT WITH REALITY The Berlage is embedded in
a reality-based frame of reference, as represented by the public
authorities, cultural institutions, and private entities, with which
students directly communicate and debate at diferent moments of
their education. This commitment to reality prompts a diferent type
of refection, speculation, and understanding of todays architectural
and urban challenges. Students engage with stakeholders and
other professionals to study reality-based conditions and projects,
broadening and expanding their acquaintance with international
practices,cultural institutions, and universities. They also interact
with a team composed of public authorities, research organizations,
corporations, real estate developers, and municipal planners, as well
as scholars and professionals.
3. ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE The
Berlage aims to prepare graduates for innovative career paths.
Due to the broad education and generalist practice of an architect,
individuals with an architectural education regularly pursue careers
related to or completely outside of the feld of architecture. However,
recent changes in building production, as well as current economic
conditions, have accelerated the need for emerging professionals
to move beyond traditional architectural and urban design practice.
Hence, the Berlage points not just to the possibility but also to the real
necessity of exploring how architecture is played out in a multiplicity
of settings, ofering new opportunities for architects and urban
designers.
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The goal is to ground a more structural debate on the impact of
societal and economic forces on architecture and urban planning
and simultaneously measure the social and cultural aspects of the
proposed organizational principles.
6. LEADING AND EMERGING DESIGNERS AND SCHOLARS The
Berlages educational model depends upon an in-depth, collaborative,
and experimental laboratory setting, characterized by guidance and
exchange with a teaching staf composed of leading and emerging
designers and researchers. Leading and emerging practitioners
and scholars are invited to act as visiting tutors and guest lecturers.
This group of visitors assures that the Berlage engages with the
most recent developments in architectural practice and thinking.
Simultaneously the Berlage solicits continuous and consistent
involvement from members of the academic staf within the TU Delfts
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
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Curriculum
Structure
Term 1: Cultures, Methods, and Instruments
Term 2: Societies, Environments, and Economies
Term 3: Final Thesis
Projects
Theory Seminars
Master Classes
Guided and inspired
by a global network
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TERM 2: SOCIETIES, ENVIRONMENTS, AND ECONOMIES
Students focus on societal, environmental, and economic
determinants related to contemporary architecture and urban design,
building on the knowledge gained in term 1. Within select architectural
and urban contexts, they develop advanced research methods, design
tools, and theoretical approaches.
TERM 3: FINAL THESIS Synthesizing the knowledge gained in
the previous two terms, students culminate their education by
producing an individual research- and design-based thesis project
under a defned thematic framework. They are encouraged to refect,
speculate, and develop alternative models and new insights on todays
architectural and urban challenges. Students conduct independent
research, under the supervision of an advisor, learning to position
themselves at the intersection of theory and practice. Recent thesis
advisors include Ido Avissar, Ole Bouman, Olaf Gipser, Freek Persyn,
and Marc Schoonderbeek.
Study is conducted in an in-depth collaborative and experimental
setting, characterized by guidance and exchange with leading and
emerging practitioners and scholars. Students participate in design-
and research-based projects, theory seminars, feldwork, and master
classes. Students are expected to be eager to research, and better
understand, the contemporary built environment; while, at the same
time, transform their research into clear design proposals. Moreover,
as most projects involve reality-based stakeholders, the mastering
of communication skillsincluding spoken and written word, as well
as through drawings, images, models, and video. The program is
aimed at students who seek an intense educational setting in which
to improve and sharpen their scholarly and research skills, as well
as critical thinking abilities. The one- and-a-half yearlong, English-
language program is structured into the following three thematic terms:
TERM 1: CULTURES, METHODS, AND INSTRUMENTS Students
are introduced to methods of advanced critical thinking and research,
to historical and contemporary design instruments, and to emerging
digital technologies and platforms. Students engage in a broad range
of methods, tools, and topics, examining the relationship between
architectural thought and practice to diferent cultures and contexts.
Intelligent communication is developed as a tool for learning, research,
and design, exploring how experimental mediums may frame
academic work for engagement with a broader public audience.
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Recent courses taught at the Berlage include the following:
PROJECTS Ecological Modernity: The City as Matrix of Urban
Biotopes, taught by Olaf Gipser and Gary Freeman; Fence, Trade,
Desire, Happiness: Shenzhen from Necessity to Destination, taught by
Sanne van den Breemer and Don Murphy; From CIAM to Cyberspace:
Architecture and the Community, taught by Laura Baird and Reinier
de Graaf; Knowledge Spaces: Envisioning the Future of Architecture
of Knowledge Creation, taught by Dietmar Leyk and Giorgio Ponzo;
Taksim Square: The Animist City, taught by Ido Avissar and Marcus
Kempers with Emre Arolat; The Nile Metropolitan Delta, taught by Pier
Paolo Tamburelli, and Oliver Thill with Diederik de Koning
THEORY SEMINARS Los Angeles: 72 Suburbs in Search of a City,
taught by Jean-Louis Cohen; Infrastructure Things, taught by Filip
Geerts; Introduction to Apparatus and Afect of Architecture, taught
by Sang Lee; Architecture in the Age of Digital Production, taught by
Henriette Brier and Lara Schrijver
MASTER CLASSES Open Structures, led by Herman Hertzberger
with Tom Avermaete and Dirk van den Heuvel; Reimagining the
Guangdong Float Glass Factory: From Background to Foreground,
led by Ole Bouman with Jorn Konijn; The Idol Tower, led by Madelon
Vriesendorp with Filip Geerts, Mark Pimlott, and Sylvia Libedinsky.
Environment, Time and Architecture led by Sbastien Marot
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Year 1 (40 weeks) Year 2 (20 weeks)
Term 1: Cultures,
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Term 2: Societies,
Environments, and Economies
(30 ECTS)
Term 3: Final Thesis
(30 ECTS)
Project (12 ECTS) Project (12 ECTS)
Thesis Project (30 ECTS)
Theory Seminar (6 ECTS) Theory Seminar (6 ECTS)
Postgraduate Research
Colloquium (8 ECTS)
Thesis Preparation Lectures
(4 ECTS)
Thesis Preparation Seminar
(4 ECTS)
Design Master Class
(4 ECTS)
Theory Master Class (4 ECTS)
The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies
in Architecture and Urban Design
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
Delft University of Technology
Julianalaan 134
Room BG.OOST.600
2628 BL Delft
The Netherlands
T +31 15 2782384
E info@theberlage.nl
W www.theberlage.nl
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