Architecture and Urban Design

The art of creating and building systems

Architecture creates a material framework and conditions for the functioning and development of the whole society. In a narrower sense, architecture is the art of creating and building systems.

It is often thought that an architect only designs houses, but that is only a small, albeit prominent part of the architect’s work. Architecture also includes learning about engineering, the humanities, and various software, building endless models and prototypes to create and experiment with new structures and worlds. The most important part of architectural education takes place as practical work in a studio, in an environment similar to an architectural office, where an actual project is born from the initial sketches. Theory and engineering subjects, painting, drawing and experimental studios support the studio work.

The latter is related to the laboratories of the Faculty of Architecture (3D Laboratory, VR Laboratory, PAKK) and the research work carried out in it, where it is possible to touch the fringes of space creation. There, you can acquire knowledge and specialise in restoration, landscape architecture or planning.

Our vision for the future

Architects have the difficult task of giving modern technology a commonly comprehensible material form and face in accordance with cultural expectations; create a whole from parts whose value is greater than the sum of any individual parts. Architecture is meant to constantly innovate, rebuild and offer different visions of the future – this is also one of the important ambitions of EKA’s architecture programme.

Read more about the curriculum here.

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News and events

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The winners of the 2024 national student research competition were announced in Tartu.

In the doctoral student category, the first prize was awarded to Gregor Taul for his work “Confusions with Monumentality. Monumental-Decorative Art in Late Soviet Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania” (supervisor Anu Allas). In his doctoral thesis, Taul analyses the production and functioning of monumental-decorative art in the late Soviet Baltic States from the 1960s until the restoration of ...
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Architectural and urban design studio inspections 11. – 19.12.2024

In December, studio work reviews of the architecture and urban planning curriculum will take place: Wed, Thu, 11. – 12.12 at 9.00–16.00 room A-400 Interim reviews of master’s studios. Mon, 16.12 at 10.00-18.00 room A-400 2nd/3rd year “Hotel”. Instructors Leonard Ma, Tuomas Toivonen, Markus Lähteenmäki (theory and history course). Tue, 17.12 at 10.00-18.00 room A-400 4th year of Architecture ...
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City Scholarships (Raestipendium) 2024 in Architecture and Urban Design

The City Council Scholarship (Raestipendium) is aimed at supporting and recognising successful master’s and doctoral students in their research and studies, with a focus on topics related to the activities of the city as a local government. The research should have practical relevance in terms of organising city life and contribute to addressing specific challenges faced by the City of ...
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Open Architecture Lecture: Petra Marko

The Open Lecture series of the EKA Faculty of Architecture will take place in the autumn of 2024 under the general title S*cial – Values in the built realm. The lecturers will focus on the ongoing shift in planning practice, where considerations other than pure economic viability increasingly play a role in decision-making. On November 28 Petra Marko will hold the lecture “Meanwhile City – ...
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BAUA Awards 2024 exhibition at EKA

Baltic Architects Unions Association Awards the Best Master’s Theses. The projects are available online and at the exhibition at the Estonian Academy of Arts until the November 1, 2024. BAUA Awards competition organised by the Baltic Architects Unions Association (BAUA) was won by the Master’s thesis of Katrīna Marta Peizuma from Riga Technical University on the experimental preservation of ...
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Open Architecture Lecture: Erik Sigge

Erik Sigge will give an open lecture “The Worth of Welfare: A Historical Perspective on the Costing and Financing of Public Buildings” on October 28 at 5 pm at EKA classroom A-501 Since 1993, Sweden has deregulated many of its welfare services, with a majority of the privatization taking place after 2007. In a historical perspective, the longstanding problem of being able to make decisions ...
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BAUA Awards 2024 featured: Diana Drobot

The BAUA Awards 2024 competition, organized by the Baltic Architects Unions Association (BAUA), was won by Riga University of Technology student Katrīna Marta Peizuma’s master’s thesis on the experimental preservation of architectural heritage. Diana Drobot, a student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, earned the jury’s mention, whose thesis deals with the restoration and reuse of post-mining ...
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Open Architecture Lecture: Christian Pagh

The Open Lecture series of the EKA Faculty of Architecture will take place in the autumn of 2024 under the general title S*cial – Values in the built realm. The lecturers will focus on the ongoing shift in planning practice, where considerations other than pure economic viability increasingly play a role in decision-making. On October 31 Christian Pagh will hold the lecture “Mission ...

Student Work

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