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Degree in Architecture Studies
Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV)
Graduates of this degree in Architecture Studies will be technically competent and scientifically rigorous professionals who will be involved in productive architectural work and architectural designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements. You will have knowledge of the history and theories of architecture, urban design and urban planning, research methods and preparation of construction projects, in addition to the problems of structure, construction and engineering related to building design. You will understand the relationships between people, buildings and their environment, and the architectural profession and its role in society, enabling you to take into account the social factors of design.
- Duration
- 5 academic years
- Study load
- 300 ECTS credits (including the bachelor's thesis). One credit is equivalent to a study load of 25-30 hours.
- Delivery
- Face-to-face
- Admission mark 2026-2027 academic year
- 10,142
- Timetables
- First year is taught in the afternoons. The following years are taught in the mornings.
- Language of instruction
Check the language of instruction for each subject (and timetable) in the course sheet in the curriculum.
Information on language use in the classroom and students’ language rights.
- Fees and grants
- Approximate fees per academic year: €1,061 (€1,800 for non-EU residents ). Consult the public fees system based on income (grants and payment options).
- Location
- Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV)
- Official degree
- Recorded in the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
- New intake places
- 110
- Pre-enrolment code
- 31079
- New intake places via a change of degree
- 10
- Admission mark 2026-2027 academic year
- 10,142. Admission mark
- Weighting. University entrance examinations (PAU)
- Weighting. University entrance examinations (PAU)
- Registration and enrolment
- What are the requirements to enrol in a bachelor's degree course?
- CFGS credit transfer
- Consult the university studies search engine of the Universities Channel of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- All documents issued in non-EU countries must be legalised and bear the corresponding apostille.
First semester
Second semester
Third semester
Fourth semester
Fifth semester
Sixth semester
Seventh semester
Eighth semester
Ninth semester
Tenth semester
Optional
- 1:1 Scale 5
- 3D Model Rendering 3
- Abc: Methodological Studies in Urban Analysis 3
- Advanced Architectural Interiors 4
- Analysis, Consolidation and Reinforcement of Existing Structures 3
- Applied Reinforced Concrete 4
- Architect Gaudí 4
- Architectural Building Solutions Workshop (Tosca) 3.5
- Barcelona, Its History and Its Architecture 5.5
- Barcelona-Chicago Architecture 3
- Barcelona. Architecture. Imagination 4
- Barcelona. Architecture. Imagination 4
- Barcelona. Architecture. Imagination 4.5
- BIM for Project Design and Management 3.5
- Bioclimatic Architecture 3.5
- Building Envelope Design 3
- Building in Extreme Conditions 3
- Canons of Catalan Architecture 5.5
- Canons of Catalan Architecture: After Coderch I (Up to 1992) 5
- Canons of Catalan Architecture: After Coderch II (From 1992) 5
- Cartographies of Care: Architecture as Ecological Diplomacy 3
- Cities: Stone on Paper 3.5
- City and Memory: Public Space, Art, Activism, Politics and Community 5
- Communicative Structures 3
- Community Labs, the Art of Living Together 4
- Computer-Aided Structural Design 3.5
- Computer-Aided Structural Design 4.5
- Construction Details 4.5
- Construction of Steel Structures 2.5
- Cooperative Organisation and the Professional World 4
- D-Urbanism 4
- Designing Resilience: Architecture, Climate Change and Extreme Climatology 3
- Digitization of Architecture 4
- Drift Drawings 3
- Drift Drawings and Watercolour 4
- Dtechnology 4
- Earth Architectures 3
- Ecological Utopias 4
- Execution Process and Technological Innovation 4.5
- Exploring Architectural Media and Video Documentaries 3
- Food Takes Command 3
- Forming Form 5
- Formmars_Labs 3
- Gaudí: Geometry and Mechanics 5
- Gaudí: Geometry and Mechanics 4.5
- Gis: City and Regional Analysis with Esri Technology 3.5
- Graphic and Qualitative Methods in Structural Analysis and Design 3
- Informal Mathematics and Computer Programming for Parametric Design 3
- Introduction to Parametric Architecture 4
- Le Corbusier's Architectural Legacy Fifty Years Later 3
- Lightweight Construction 4.5
- Lightweight Construction 4
- Local Action 1 6
- Local Action 2 3
- Local Action 3 6
- Low3 - Zero Living 5
- Making Without Plans: Mediated Authorships, Synthetic Architectures 4
- Medea_Lab 3
- Msp Vallès: Material, System, Prototype 5
- Needs of the Catalan Baroque: the Miracle of the Miracle 3
- Now, What? on Architecture and the Environment: a Theoretical Perspective 4
- Pierre Lavedan's Gothic Architecture 90 Years After 4
- Plaster Models 3.5
- Project and Research Workshop 1 3
- Projects in Cultural Landscapes 4.5
- Radical Reynals 3
- Rehabilitation Criteria and Techniques 4
- Rehabilitation Criteria and Techniques 3
- Reinforced Concrete Structures. One-Way and Two-Way Slabs 4
- Rendering 3D Models V.2 4
- Research Workshop 1 3
- Rowe After Rowe 3
- Rpv-Inhabiting, Cohabiting and Coexisting: a Journey from the Home to the City 4
- Solar Decathlon 2018 6
- Solar Decathlon: Assembly 1 6
- Solar Decathlon: Assembly 2 4
- Sound Makes Space 4
- Sound Shelter 4
- Spatial Network Dynamics 4.5
- Steel Structures 4.5
- Steel Structures 4
- Steel Structures 2.5
- Steel Structures 3
- Streets & Streams. Integrating Infrastructure, Ecology and Society 3
- Súnion: Learning Innovation 3.5
- Súnion: Learning Innovation 3
- The Experience of Architecture 3
- The Experience of Architecture 03: ‘Brussels’ 3
- The Invisible City 4
- Theory and History of Visual Thought in Architecture 4
- Theory Workshop (The One by Gaudí at the Sagrada Familia) 4.5
- Tosca 3.5
- Transformations_Lab 3
- Travel Notes 6
- Trees in Landscape Architecture 3.5
- Urban and Architectural Drawing and Photography 3
- Urban Metabolism: the Rels Project 4.5
- Urban Metabolism: the Rels Project 2 4.5
- What IT is Important to Explain About an Architectural Project and How to Communicate IT 2.5
- Wooden Structures 3
- Wooden Structures 3.5
- Wooden Structures 2.5
- Workshop: Local Action 3
- Zeta 4
- CompulsoryECTS
- OptionalECTS
- ProjectECTS
- Professional opportunities
- Building design.
- Design of public space.
- Calculation of structures in the building.
- Urban and territorial planning.
- Real estate management.
- Interior design and the design of furniture and objects.
- Design of temporary structures, exhibitions and theatre sets.
- Graphic design.
- Diagnosis of energy consumption of buildings and urban spaces.
- Environmental impact studies.
- Architecture and the law: appraisal, arbitration and valuation; dealing with procedures regarding building use.
- Teaching and research.
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- Academic regulations
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