Architecture (Grado en Fundamentos de Arquitectura)
A unique, international, immersive experience based on advanced technical knowledge and study trips. 40 courses, 10 destinations, 5 years and a shared learning resource: travel.
Students who possess a scientific and practical outlook, an aesthetic sensibility, and an interest in technological progress and artistic trends. Students who want both to examine and to create their surroundings.
Our innovative method uses travel as a resource for learning. Travel is an essential part of the degree programme itself, bringing together different areas of study and ensuring the students get a real feel for the values of the buildings, places, and cultures they visit.
An architect with a global outlook, enabling you to undertake an international career while also being keenly aware of how sustainability is the key to transforming the world.
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ArchiTRIPture: A unique degree. A global trip.
To project. The Architecture's future
What makes us different
Our Intensification Programmes
At CEU, we are very focused on ensuring that our students acquire the technical skills related to their discipline – but we also want to ensure they gain the personal and professional skills they need for real growth. We firmly believe that providing high-quality, rigorous and challenging education to our students is the key to their future career success. And today's employers are ever more demanding in looking for potential employees who have well-rounded skillsets. This is how we are rising to this challenge:
- Competency Development: Having the right range of skills and competencies can really make the difference in the job market. That's why at CEU we place a focus on competency development working on our students' personal and professional skills. This will ensure that not only will they be experts in their fields, but they will also be able to act as leaders in their social and working environments. Our goal is to enhance our graduates' employability and to provide them with the tools they need to take on the challenges today's world faces.
- Academic Excellence Programme: For our high-performing students, we have created a training plan to intensify their development, to enhance what they can offer to employers and to provide them with greater career opportunities. This programme will enable them to develop key competencies while working with highly prestigious companies.
1. Learning by traveling.
This is a ground-breaking approach to learning about architecture, by looking at sites and building projects in situ. You’ll learn about the context for which the buildings were designed, how they fit in with their surroundings and particular features of their design. Travelling is food for the soul. Every semester there’ll be a new place to visit and study.
Every year, we choose a different European city and all the courses for that year are taught with its cultural, social, climatic and geographical characteristics in mind. We also invite architects from this city to come to our School to lead an international workshop and explain their vision of the place in which they live and work. Afterwards, we visit the city itself to compare what has been learnt with the reality on the ground.
ArchiTRIPture is about giving our Architecture students a global vision of the profession and the ability to create buildings anywhere in the world. That’s why, we’ll be travelling to places like Barcelona, Zurich, Madrid, and Berlin during the degree.
2. The world in one school
Our architecture school, ESET, is the very definition of international – it has students from 45 different countries and lecturers from 14. That’s why the degree is taught in English. For the practical project development sessions, you can choose to work in English or Spanish, as you’ll work closely with your lecturers as you learn. All our students are different, but they share the same passion for architecture.
At ESET, you’ll find:
- Small groups: 25 students, enabling us to provide personalized education.
- Multicultural classes, with students from many different countries, such as Sweden, Germany, Ukraine, Canada, Norway, Kuwait, etc. You’ll be in Spain, but it will feel like you’re in a British or American university.
- Personalized teaching, via one-to-one tutorials in the project development courses.
- Educational experiences outside lectures: you'll complement your training with workshops, site visits, trips and also interaction with international architects.
- International placements, enabling you to get the international professional experience you need. These placements take place at top Spanish and international studios.
- Take advantage of our Bachelor's + Master's Programme (known as PARS in Spanish), which enables you to complete your Bachelor's Degree in Architecture and then your Master's Degree in Architecture with us without interruption. By applying for the PARS programme, you can register for the Master's Degree when you still have up to 30 ECTS final-year credits to complete, including the end-of-degree project (TFG). Those who are not on the PARS programme cannot apply for the Master's Degree until they have a maximum of 9 ECTS credits left to complete (excluding the TFG).
3. Your lecturers or real maestros?
Why go to university anyway? Becoming an architect has to be about more than just passing exams. During your time at ESET, your degree will be a journey; your course credits, practical challenges; your lectures, forums for debate. For us, Architecture isn’t about exams, timetables and courses – it’s about you telling us how you want to become an architect.
Your Architecture degree won’t be a series of unconnected courses with final exams – that’s not what we think a university should be. Inside and outside of our classrooms, we will foster your ability to think critically, giving you the skills to develop your own considered viewpoint on architecture – and life. You’ll learn gradually and sequentially, assimilating the results of the work you complete and the challenges you undertake over the course of the degree, under the guiding hand of your lecturers. Reflection, interpretation, understanding and analysis: all these things will form a key part of how you become an architect.
4. Architecture with a conscience
Our architectural philosophy can be summed up with the three Ps: prosperity, people and the planet. We want architecture to be sustainable and for it to be ready for the challenges of tomorrow: do you see things the same way?
- Prosperity: we see architecture as the engine for progress and the improvement of life through the enhancement of the urban environment. Architecture can be a driving force in the modern economy.
- People: architecture has to be inspired by and made for real people. The human factor is the key when creating shapes and spaces.
- The planet: architecture must create sustainable spaces which contribute to the improvement of the planet.
- Our students get continuous advice and feedback on their designs and the development of their projects throughout their degree. Top architects and firms from Spain and across the world come to our School of Architecture to give special lectures and workshops, ensuring that our students receive up-to-date and well-rounded training in sustainability.
5. Practical experience around the world
Real experience is the best source of information for an architect and that's why, in addition to our teaching, our students undertake placements at the best studios in Spain and across the world. Here are some examples of the studios we work with: Aires Mateus (Portugal), Müller Sigrist (Switzerland), Cruz y Ortiz and OAB Ferrater (Spain), McCullough-Mulvin (Ireland), Merom Architects (Sweden), and Mjölk (Czech Republic).
By studying with us, you'll have classmates from all over the world, learn from Spanish and international lecturers, participate in international workshops, visit sites under development, undertake stimulating placements, receive innovative and dynamic teaching, and travel to see the architecture you study. This is the path to a career in tomorrow's architecture: global and dynamic, but also conscientious and sensitive to the cultural, geographical, economic and social environment.
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your lecturers
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Your Campus
This degree is taught at the School of Design, Architecture and Engineering (ESET). This is located on the Alfara del Patriarca campus (Valencia). It is a striking building, as it is a former factory which has been rehabilitated, making it the ideal place to foster creativity and artistry. How to get here
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Why CEU?
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Go internationalGo international
At CEU, you will have a truly international learning experience, whatever degree you study and whichever campus you study on.
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PrestigePrestige
CEU has become synonymous with prestige and research. And it’s not just us who think so – check out the THE World University Ranking.
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EmployabilityEmployability
We have a range of initiatives in place to boost your career prospects: placements, Open Badges, job fairs and career advice on campus.
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CommunityCommunity
The university, everything it represents, your learning experience and your personal development - all of these things will remain with you for the rest of your life.
Study programme
Your journey over 5 years + 1
Your Teachers
Partners
Your classmates
Sara Norway
"I was looking for an international university where I could both learn and explore new places, so CEU Valencia has been the perfect choice for me."
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Walat Sweden
"In Sweden, there’s one palette for architecture, one style, one way of doing things, but here in Spain you have much more creative freedom, with a greater variety of architectural styles. That’s really exciting for me, as it encourages me to be more creative."
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Simon South Korea
"I found out about the university through my sister, who’s studying Physiotherapy here at CEU UCH. I also thought about going to Florence and Barcelona, but in the end I decided to come to Valencia. I think it’s to do with its size. It’s more manageable. And Valencia’s a quiet and pleasant place to live."
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Alidia Sweden
"What I like best about ESET are the trips we take. Being able to study architecture and travel at the same time is just the best! You really learn something because you can see it all with your own eyes.
And I really love my classmates. They’re people from different countries and it’s really interesting to get to know them and discover new things about their cultures and traditions."
Placements and employment
The future of the profession
Architects create and build our world, and it’s a world which is changing at an exponential pace. What effects does sustainability have on the profession? What new challenges are there with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic? Can we put health at the heart of the design and creation of our cities? Here are some things to think about, for you to consider what shape the future may take.
Get ready
If you want to learn how to build, build. If you want to learn how to manage a project, start a project. Learning by doing: it’s the best way. Our Careers Service can help you to find to the path for you, so that if you want to be an architect, you can start doing architecture for real from the beginning at top Spanish and international firms.
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Here are some of the firms at which you could take your first career steps
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Mobility
If you’d like to enhance your education by spending a period of study at another international university, you can. If you’d like to learn from lecturers visiting from universities across the world, you can. We have academic agreements with institutions in Europe and across the globe, so with us, you can.
Learn
Seminars and workshops given by lecturers visiting from universities in Europe and the Americas.
Experience
Student exchange programmes for you to have a study period abroad – if you want to do it, we can make it happen.
Try something new
Discover new cities and get new career perspectives.
Key partnerships
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Quality
Memory and reports
Survey results
Evaluation reports of student satisfaction, PAS and PDI on different aspects of the degree, allow to gather information to identify key strengths and weaknesses of the title and provide relevant data to define improvement plans.
Monitoring
Grado en Fundamentos de la Arquitectura is revised and updated in order to maintain its high quality. Therefore:
We carry out a Monitoring Report of our degrees each year and evaluate them through the Valencian Agency AVAP (Agència Valenciana d'Avaluació i Prospectiva) twice a year.
We actively participate in an Internal University Quality Guarantee System, which shows what we are doing well as well as where we can improve and monitor our courses.
Monitoring reports
Suggestion mailbox
Guidelines
- All members of the university community will be able to make suggestions.
- The suggestions may be expressed individually or as a team.
- To make a suggestion you must provide the personal data requested in the corresponding form. Suggestions, which do not meet these requirements, will not be processed.
- The mailbox can be accessed directly from the website. The mailbox will function through the e-mail, so a reply will be sent to the sender e-mail address.
- The Strategic Development and Quality Unit will forward the received suggestions to the responsible of the corresponding area weekly.
- The Strategic Development and Quality Unit will only have the function of a link between the parties, since it has no executive capacity.
- The mailbox will be public, but not the documentation inserted in it, only the Strategic Development and Quality Unit will have access to it.
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Regulations
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Regulations for the Continuation of Studies and Enrolment Conditions for Bachelor’s DegreesPDF -
Regulations Concerning Continuous Assessment at the CEU UCHPDF
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General Regulations Concerning End-of-Degree Projects (TFGs) and End-of-Master’s Degree Projects (TFMs).PDF
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Regulations on the Recognition and Transfer of CreditsPDF
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Normativa sobre Enseñanzas Propias y Formación Permanente de la Universidad CEU Cardenal HerreraPDF
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Reglamento para el reconocimiento académico en créditos ECTS por la participación en actividades culturales, deportivas, de representación estudiantil, solidarias y de cooperación en los títulos de GradoPDF
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Normativa de compensación de calificaciones de la Universidad CEU Cardenal HerreraPDF
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ADMINISTRATION OF THE ERASMUS+, SICUE AND IBEROAMÉRICA PROGRAMMES – BACHELOR’S DEGREESPDF
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Seventh and last examination opportunity – ProceedingsPDF
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Prospective students
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Student fees
CEU Merit Program GrantsWelcome to the grant program for Spanish students – with no small print! The. CEU Merit Program offers more than 90 grants per year, providing a reduction in annual student fees of between 75% to 100%. This is the only grant program for which you will know whether or not you will receive it before you enrol – so, if your application for a grant is not successful, you will still have time to apply to a different university if you wish. As we said, no small print.
CEU Merit International Program Grants
And if you are an international student, there is also a financial support program which can help you undertake a Bachelor's Degree with us. 
Collaboration GrantsWhat do you think of the idea of earning money by providing assistance in different areas of the University’s activities? And what if these activities were directly related to your future profession? That is what the CEU Collaboration Grants for spanish e international students are all about. The popularity of these grants demonstrates that the combination of assistance and learning that they enable is the perfect mix. |
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First year Discover
Your first contact with architecture. During this year, you’ll get the basic training you need to get to grips with architecture. You’ll study maths, physics, technical drawing, geometry, and the history of art as you gain an introduction to architecture.
Second year Explore
By the second year, you’ll already know what architecture is and it will be time to explore and experience it. During this year, you’ll undertake your first projects and learn about urban planning, while also gaining an introduction to structures and construction. Courses on theory and anthropology will also guide you in your approaches to constructing space. But it will be the use of graphical communication tools which will really characterise the year, enabling you to flesh out your first ideas in models, sketches, renders and photographs, as you establish the crucial link between creation and communication.
Third, fourth, and fifth years Develop
In the third stage, comprising the third, fourth, and fifth years of the degree, what you will do will be more and more like professional practice. The first semester will comprise theoretical and practical content regarding the different disciplines, and then the second semester will draw the different strands together in a single project. In this project, the lecturers will become part of the students’ advisory team, in a similar fashion to a professional environment.
Over these years of the degree, the complexity of the challenges will increase, as you gain the skills needed to manage all the different aspects of a project, blending the knowledge from the different disciplines with one purpose in mind.
Master’s Degree Connect
The core of the Master’s Degree programme is a professional project which you will undertake, enabling you to bring together everything you have learnt during your studies and to show that you are ready to begin your architectural career. An expert team will guide you through the process so that you can produce the best possible project.
And all the things you learn on the courses will strengthen your practical skills, enhancing your project still further. As the Spanish architect Alejandro de la Sota said, “architecture is the air we breathe, but it is one which is laden with aromas and wisdom. The air itself is transformed through architecture.”