The aim of the course is to present acoustic comfort as an architectural design aspect that is necessary for the function of the building, to shape the architectural design mindset, to promote the creation of quality, modern buildings, to present the objectively measurable and subjective factors determining acoustic comfort, to illuminate the relationships between the characteristics determining acoustic comfort and other design objectives, and to clarify the connection between building function and acoustic requirements.

This course aims to expand the existing CAD knowledge of students to be able to create and modify complex CAD models easily. During the course, we use Archicad, so a basic knowledge of the program is expected.

Different departments of the Faculty of Architecture offer the same course titled Architectural Research for Exchange Students. However, the specific research topic varies according to each department’s area of expertise. Please apply to only one of these courses, based on your research interests.If you register it in the Fall semester, you can also register it in the Spring semester, but at a different department.
Please note: this course can only be taken once per semester.
Architectural Research for Exchange Students on the topics of the Department's competency. The aim of the subject is to carry out a research on a special topic. The research contains specifying and processing the related international literature, summing up the findings in a study and finally a presentation. The language of the research depends on the consultant - the available topics are listed on the department's homepage.

Different departments of the Faculty of Architecture offer the same course titled Architectural Research for Exchange Students. However, the specific research topic varies according to each department’s area of expertise. Please apply to only one of these courses, based on your research interests.If you register it in the Fall semester, you can also register it in the Spring semester, but at a different department.
Please note: this course can only be taken once per semester.
Architectural Research for Exchange Students on the topics of construction technology and management. The aim of the subject is to carry out a research on a special topic. The research contains specifying and processing the related international literature, summing up the findings in a study and finally a presentation. The language of the research depends on the consultant - the available topics are listed on the department's homepage.

Different departments of the Faculty of Architecture offer the same course titled Architectural Research for Exchange Students. However, the specific research topic varies according to each department’s area of expertise. Please apply to only one of these courses, based on your research interests.If you register it in the Fall semester, you can also register it in the Spring semester, but at a different department.
Please note: this course can only be taken once per semester.
Thestudents choose from the topics offered by the Department of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation and conduct research independently or in small groups. They are introduced to the basic methods of research in architectural history, architectural theory, and monument preservation, such as research in the specialist literature, archives, design and map archives, research techniques, etc., and apply them in practice. The range of possible topics is determined by the department and the personal interests of the students. In addition to architectural issues, students and their consultants also deal with interdisciplinary topics and issues relevant in an international context, reflecting the openness and inclusive-synthesizing nature of the course and the program. As part of the course, students work independently, with the help of consultation, to process a set of issues, summarize them in the form of a study, and present them at a final conference, all in English. The fundamental goal is to develop the given topic based on the university"s educational principles and the synergy between student motivation and lecturer competence.
General information and previous research topics are listed in the Moodle:
https://edu.epitesz.bme.hu/course/view.php?id=1435

Different departments of the Faculty of Architecture offer the same course titled Architectural Research for Exchange Students. However, the specific research topic varies according to each department’s area of expertise. Please apply to only one of these courses, based on your research interests.If you register it in the Fall semester, you can also register it in the Spring semester, but at a different department.
Please note: this course can only be taken once per semester. 
Similar to the international practice aims the course primary research activity on architecture and its documentation. The possible horizon of the research topics is determined by the course lists of the departments and the personal interest of the students. Beside the architectural topics will give the course an appreciation of interdisciplinary and special fields in international environment too. The project work demonstrating generic and specific skills and understanding of the open and synthetic character of the research. The objective of this course is to hone the skills of analysis and abstraction in order to develop a framework for research. The student should be able to draw from precedent in both art, architecture and engineering in the development of this framework, which will act as scaffolding for the theoretical, experimental and creative decisions. This course will consist of a series of consultations to the teachers, but the essay should written by the student. The available topics are given by the Departments of the Faculty. The student can propose also a special topic for research during the course, but the teacher has to be agree with the proposal.

Different departments of the Faculty of Architecture offer the same course titled Architectural Research for Exchange Students. However, the specific research topic varies according to each department’s area of expertise. Please apply to only one of these courses, based on your research interests.If you register it in the Fall semester, you can also register it in the Spring semester, but at a different department.
Please note: this course can only be taken once per semester.
Architectural Research for Exchange Students on the topics of the Department's competency. The aim of the subject is to carry out a research on a special topic. The research contains specifying and processing the related international literature, summing up the findings in a study and finally a presentation. The language of the research depends on the consultant - the available topics are listed on the department's homepage.

Different departments of the Faculty of Architecture offer the same course titled Architectural Research for Exchange Students. However, the specific research topic varies according to each department’s area of expertise. Please apply to only one of these courses, based on your research interests.If you register it in the Fall semester, you can also register it in the Spring semester, but at a different department.
Please note: this course can only be taken once per semester.
Architectural research for exchange and international students: with the professional leadership of the tutors of the Department of Urban Planning and Design students work on individual research topics (eg.. Urban History, Urban Tipologies, Urban Morphologies, Housing estates etc.). The course is based on individual work, with a final output of an essay.

The history of industrial architecture, the history of Hungarian industrial architecture. Load-bearing structures of halls and of multi-storey buildings. Size standardization. Constructions of space separation, facades, subsytems of space separation constructions (foundations, roof structures, intermediate floors, external wall systems, finishes. Characteristic architectural requirements, social facilities. Logistics: transport, storage. From location to layout, emplacement of industrial plants. Design methodology, re-use, reconstruction. Offices.

This subject presents the details of the main load-bearing constructions (walls, floors, stairs) and the joints between them. Wall supported / skeleton frame, or mixed construction.Walls: Effects on walls, and how to fulfil the requirements. Sorting the walls by function, position, material, by layer-order. Walls built from elements, the development of walling elements.Floors: Functions, effects on floors, how to fulfil the requirements. Elements of floor construction. Types: plain floors (in details), arches (overview). The materials, construction lines, building methods, About the future of floors Joints between walls – floors, skeleton frames – floors. Methodology of the floor design.Stairs: Functions, effects on staires, how to fulfil the requirements, principles of stressing and how to choose construction. Sorting the constructions by material, load bearing method, building method … etc. Design possibilities.

General and detailed review of the structures of the elevation constructions. The most important aim of the subject is the analysis of the external separating constructions. Principles of the continuity of the protecting levels depending on the position in the structure. Multi-layer external separating walls, construction methods of the elevation claddings and elevation coverings, the ordinary and special external doors and windows. Complementary structures for the external doors and windows, especially the shading devices. Requirements for the external separating structures and performances of the different constructions. Building physics: heat and vapour physics, acoustic features of the external separating structures.

The aim of the subject is to familiarize the student with the basic building engineering and energetic concepts and simplified building engineering sizing that occur during architectural studies and later work. The student acquires further knowledge in the fields of heating technology, air conditioning technology and renewable energy. The subject's matter prepares the student by applying the knowledge acquired here, enables to solve complex and unique building engineering and energetic tasks. Based on the competencies described in the topic requirements, based on the knowledge acquired in the Building Energetics subject in the architectural engineering training, the student is “Able to determine the adequate mechanical system for an energy efficient design of the building including heating, ventilation and air conditioning”

Calculation of heat loss of buildings. Energy consumption of a heated space. Introduction to fluid flow. Classification of Heating. Central heating. Elements of water heating system. Pipe distributing networks Emitters and surface heating. Controlling. Renewable energy sources for heating and producing domestic dot water. Introduction to psychometrics. Psychometric processes. Ventilation (Classification, natural ventilation and mechanical one, fundamental systems of air inlet and extract) Estimation of the necessary air volume. Air heating and cooling systems. Air conditioning.

The aim of the course is to integrate the encyclopaedic knowledge of building constructions acquired in the pre-specialisation courses at the building scale, to develop the ability to think and adapt to structural choice, requirements and performance-based building construction design, to understand the logic of building systems and to practice their application, primarily through the development of large-scale residential and small public buildings. In this context, the exploration of the characteristics of each building type, together with the appropriate structural subsystems and detailed solutions, is justified, and the independent establishment of a system of requirements for the building types under consideration, with its documentation broken down into individual elements, can be mastered. The subject also develops the practical application of building acoustic, fire protection and building physics principles in design practice through the implementation of complex, modern, realistic tasks.

Aim: investigate the economic side of a real estate development emphasizing the Social cost and benefit of development.This module concentrates economical computation models, theories dealing with real estate valuation. There is a homework concerning with calculation, valuation of a real estate development. Successful submission is required for the module acceptance. Written mid-semester test as indicated, minimum pass grade required. Following main topics are discussed: construction cost, estimates, time value of money, building life cycle cost , measuring the worth of real estate investments.

The goal of the subject is to present information on the planning of elementary construction technologies related to superstructures and finishing work.The subject introduces how to apply recent innovations of building technologies during design and realisation. It gives a basic knowledge to evaluate construction options and make appropriate decisions about technology. There are case studies of building technologies used in construction of loadbearing structures, finishing and cladding works.The practical part contains workshops on planning of construction technologies: connection of structures and technologies, volume calculation, resource estimation, scheduling and construction site planning.

The aim of the Colour Dynamics course is to familiarise students with: The relationship between colour and colour, colour and people, colour and the built environment. To understand the major role of colour in the development of individual creative character and meaningful built environment. Understanding the process of exterior and interior colour design. The concept and conditions of colour harmony, different theories of harmony and colour systems. Understanding the characteristic colours associated with different historical periods. To learn about the most important historical and ongoing research on colour harmony in the Department of Forms, Drawing and Design. Problems of different approaches to current and future colour design problems, free of any period schemes, focusing on the eternal expression of colour.

Taking part in architectural competitions is one of the ways for an architectural practice to express architectural opinions or to obtain contracts. As part of the course, students can learn about the legal and theoretical background of architectural competitions and gain routine in participating in them by taking part in the mini-competitions announced in class during the semester. These tasks deal with current architectural affairs, universal design, and the frontiers of the profession, with constantly updated topics. Students have the opportunity to experience competitions from multiple perspectives, taking part both as participants and as members of the jury, deepening their understanding of the evaluation process and design discourse. Throughout the semester invited professionals talk about the routine and participation strategies of their own practices.

The aim of the subject is to give an overview about the IT tools, softwares and algorithms that can support the construction projects, let them be management or process related. We introduce the latest applications in theory and practice.

Curricula, themes, individual projects, tests, subjects of lectures and seminars of the Course are embracing managerial and organizational learnings useful and necessary for all civil engineers, such as: - jobs and organizational structure of Contracting Construction Trade; - jobs and relations of parties collaborating in executing construction projects;- time and resource needs of executing construction projects (basic methods and terms of time-, resource- and cost estimates);- basics of mechanizing Construction, construction equipments and auxiliary plants, typical applications;- organizing construction site (site layout designs).Individual project: Organizational plans (time estimates, resources calculations and site layout designs) of building a simple linear structure (reinforced concrete retaining wall) well known in practice of all civil engineers.

The course aims to introduce architectural CAD modeling, promoting a higher level of understanding and creation of geometric forms used in architecture, so that students learn to consciously interpret more complex architectural forms and build and reconstruct them in a CAD system.

A special urban design course focusing mainly on urban public space design with the help of invited lecturers and landscape designer consultants. The course is a partly theoretical and partly practical where students get acquainted with special issues and problems of public space definition, basic notions and tools of public realm and public space design. In the design assignment students deal with a smaller spatial entity, where they start from the analysis of the urban problem and provide a possible solution for the publicly attainable zones in between buildings.

Design Methodology course introduces theoretical and practical principles of architectural design flow. The point of theoretical part is to show the history and philosophical aspects of design process, while practice is mainly trained in parallel courses. Through lectures and home works students develop skills of creativity, representation and modeling the real design activities. The process of architectural design thus can be compared to an informatics system, so for making the method more clear. Practical Design Methodology is closely connected to the Public Building Design 2 course, extending it with special design aspects and details. Through analyzing existing buildings and fictional situations interesting practical problems and solutions can be introduced and discussed. Several special methods of new facilities, building reconstructions and technologically or structurally determined buildings are also presented, to gear towards understanding the need for collaboration with design partners. Because of its importance, local and global responsibility, sustainability, free access and ecological design will be touched along whole study, to understand the meaning of “fair architecture”.

The aim of the course is to become familiar with the important construction and calculation methods of structural design. The main themes of the course include design of frame structures, bracing of frames, hierarchical structures; construction and design of steel and timber structures, like slabs and frames and other auxiliary elements, like railings, stairs, and furniture. The analysis focuses on both the ultimate limit state and serviceability limit state, and deals with durability and fire protection. The course prepares students for the construction of steel and timber buildings, that is related to architectural needs. Besides getting to know the structural systems, the subject also deals with the dimensioning of structural elements and provides an opportunity to learn modern computer calculation methods.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to environmentally conscious and sustainable construction approaches and the related design and structural methods. Students will review the theoretical background of environmental friendly structural design, "alternative" construction techniques (adobe, earth, and straw bale construction), and the architectural applications of natural building materials. Skills developed during the course include sustainable technical solutions, life cycle design, and the coordination of its environmental, aesthetic, and technical considerations. The semester assignment involves the detailed, partial implementation plan for a small-scale, environmentally conscious methods of a residential building. The practical and theoretical elements of the course serve to develop responsible, sustainable architectural thinking.

The goal of the subject is to present theory of Facility Management, introduction of Cost Efficiency concepts. Based on case studies and several site visits on commercial properties, list of managerial tasks will be indentified and explained as registration, maintenance, crisis management and others. The course also will cover related subjects as Workspace Planning and CAFM (Computer Aided Facility Management).

Form and Composition 2 is the second course in the academic unit extending over four semesters, titled
'Studio of Architectonic Thinking'. The course aims to provide students with guidance:
- from the aspect of forms: to the exploration of the interconnections between perpendicular and nonperpendicular
or curved, planar and spatial architectonic compositions based on the plane (flat or
curved surface) as fundamental structural and geometrical component, and to the creation of individual
compositions in plane and space, employing the acquired principles;
- from the aspect of composition: to grasp the possibilities, fundamental concepts and operations of
planar and spatial composition of planes;
- from the aspect of colour theory: to understand grayscale and coloured monochromaticity, the
different monochromatic colour scales of the colour plane, and the context and aesthetic content of
colours and the various colour systems;
- from a technical aspect: to the steps of preparing drawn linear, drafted as well as manual-digital hybrid
graphics, manual and digital models, collages and visualizations;
- and from the aspect of visual communication: to further potentials and techniques of raster graphics,
image manipulation, digital collage, photo montage, typography and infographics.
Projects of the semester include instructor-assisted and supervised individual and group works.

Form and Composition 4 is the fourth and summative course in the academic unit extending over four
semesters, titled 'Studio of Architectonic Thinking'. The course aims to provide students with guidance:
- from the aspect of forms: to the potential principles of architectonic shaping, form-finding and form
research based on space as fundamental structural and geometrical component in perpendicular, nonperpendicular
and curved configurations;
- from the aspect of composition: to grasp the possibilities and elementary framework of spatial
compositions; the compositional principles of the division of space and the possibilities of compositional
articulation of colour, texture, material and light – attributes most directly related to spatial forms.
- from the aspect of colour theory: to the application of colours in their most commonly used saturation,
triad and quadriad colour harmonies in graphics, the aesthetics of realistic visualization (surface textures
& factures) and its application possibilities in digital collage
- from a technical aspect: to digital or hybrid graphical techniques, and a more advanced level of
creating quality manual or digital scale models; the synthesis and independent application of the various
acquired form-creation skills and related visualization techniques.
- and from the aspect of visual communication: to an advanced use of raster graphics and realistic
visualization or (matching to scale) abstraction of the characteristics of light and materials.
Projects of the semester include instructor-assisted and supervised individual and small-group design
works.

The intended task of the subject is to investigate the evaluation and formation of the European architecture of the four main cultures as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Before introducing to the evaluation of architecture we are speaking the used building materials and the structures involved. The presentation of architecture follows chronological order, analysing the functional expectation of the building types used. In Mesopotamia we discuss the space demands of the sacral, the dwelling and the palace architecture. The analysis makes possible to prove the early use of space systems in architecture. The accented topic in Egypt is the evaluation of monumental architecture in stone. It is important to understand, that the later funerary buildings are not unique architectural constructions, but part of a composition. The Hellenic and the Roman civilisation is basically an urbanistic culture. That is the reason, that both cultures are discussed through their developments in settlements. The analysis of Hellenic temple construction gives opportunity to discuss the evaluation of the Greek and Roman orders.

Brunelleschi and the early renaissance architecture in Tuscany. The evolution of the renaissance palace in Florence and in the Northern regions of Italy. The architect and scholar Leon Battista Alberti. Bramante and and the influence of his circle in the first half of the 16th century. Michelangelo Buonarroti architect. Renaissance in Lombardy and Venice. Mannerist architecture. The late sixteenth century: Palladio and Vignola. Urban development and early baroque architecture in Rome under Pope Sixtus V. The architecture of Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. Baroque in Venice and in Piemont. Architecture in France in the 16-17th centuries. Baroque in central Europe: Austria, Bohemia and Germany.

The course gives an overview of the architecture in the 20-21st centuries. The classes follow chronology with focusing on the works of some great architects: Modernism and Modern Movement. Architecture between the two world wars – De Stijl, Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, Less is more – Architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Toward a New Architecture – Architecture of Le Corbusier. The Nordic Classicist Tradition – Architecture of E. G. Asplund and S. Lewerentz. Alvar Aalto and the modern Finnish architecture. In the second part the course picks up some relevant architectural trends: New Empiricism, New Humanism, New Brutalism and the Team X, the way from large housing estates to architecture without architects. Unfolding post-modern architecture, participation and the Las Vegas strip, Colin Rowe’s studio, Critical Regionalism. The third part concentrates on timely problems: new materials or the multi-sensorial experience of space and surface, Rem Koolhaas’s Dirty Realism, new technology and digital perception, architecture of seduction.

The course gives an overview of the architecture in the 20-21st centuries. The classes follow chronology with focusing on the works of some great architects: Modernism and Modern Movement. Architecture between the two world wars – De Stijl, Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, Less is more – Architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Toward a New Architecture – Architecture of Le Corbusier. The Nordic Classicist Tradition – Architecture of E. G. Asplund and S. Lewerentz. Alvar Aalto and the modern Finnish architecture. In the second part the course picks up some relevant architectural trends: New Empiricism, New Humanism, New Brutalism and the Team X, the way from large housing estates to architecture without architects. Unfolding post-modern architecture, participation and the Las Vegas strip, Colin Rowe’s studio, Critical Regionalism. The third part concentrates on timely problems: new materials or the multi-sensorial experience of space and surface, Rem Koolhaas’s Dirty Realism, new technology and digital perception, architecture of seduction.

HISTORY OF THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2.
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The course presents, exposes and explains the most important constituent facts, selected from the innumerable different intellectual reflections of the twentieth century and the second millennium, as a rich and simultaneous interplay of parallel stories, either promoting, or opposing each other. It doesn’t interpret history as a homogeneously evolving story, emerging from the past, but at the same time, it doesn’t deny the importance and operative function of creating histories. Instead of a simple, successive presentation of well-known historical facts, or a collection of fashionable notions, topics and themes, it rather concentrates on exploring their synchronic functional relationships and finding creative and relevant conclusions.
1. Introduction, theory and history in the 20th century.
2. Dominant modern reflections: Riegl, Loos Corbusier
3. Science, technology, art, future, constituent parts of the modern identity
Submission and discussion of first paper.
4. Great histories of modern architecture. History, or theory?
5. The destructions of modern technologies. Totalitarian regimes, and the war. Post war time, neo-technicism and total utopias of the sixties, Banham, Archigram.
6. Rediscovery of the operative function of history. Kahn, Venturi. Vulgar modernism and vulgar historicism.
Submission and discussion of second paper.
7. The global, the regional, the rural, the archaic. Structuralism, accidentism.
8. Positive and negative side of modern urbanism.
9. Beyond modern histories. Critical theories anthologies. Presence and representation. Deconstruction, phenomenology, hermeneutics.
Submission and discussion of third paper.

Hungarian Historic Buildings in Context is an elective subject for architecture students learning in the English language. Its objective is twofold: on the one hand, the comprehensive exploration and study of the historically significant buildings featured in the lectures offers students who are already somewhat familiar with the history of architecture in Hungary further in-depth analysis. On the other hand, by getting to know the selected key monuments of architectural history, the guest students who choose the subject can gain a comprehensive insight into Hungarian architectural culture. The thematic outline of the lectures serves as an architectural historical framework in which we study the topic"s most important domestic key monuments, emphasized in the context of European architectural relations and placed in the historical, social and cultural context of domestic architecture.
Students - mainly those participating in training courses in English and the Erasmus exchange program - can get to know the building(s) through a historical typological analysis presentation and possibly a building visit, sometimes with the participation of an invited building researcher who is in-depth on a narrower topic. By completing the subject, the international student can adapt our architectural culture to the previously acquired knowledge of universal architectural history through the key concepts of Hungarian architectural history.

The subject is based on the cooperation between the design and engineering Departments of the Faculty of Architecture. Throughout the semester, exchange students work in two different design studios — one on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the other on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Each studio involves two separate projects, each project is mandatory and lasts seven weeks in order to receive credits.

PRAXIS  (Architectural strategies BMEEPIPQ703) is a theoretical course about Hungarian architecture. Guest lecturer Hungarian architects take lectures and site visits week by week from new buildings. In the end of the semester students have to take a theoretical presentation from one of the lecture which was presented in the course. The topic of the presentation is given for the students by the department. . There are opportunity for consultation In the presentation the students have to analyze the current building through her/his own viewpoint, opinion, plus have to compare with a similar building (function) from her/his country (region).  The presentation has to be a scientific and theoretical. Rating view: own idea and own opinion, research, quality, design of the presentation,  self made pictures (site visit), well fitted comparison, theoretical background of the comparison.

The lecture series covers the theory and fundamentals of residential building design. The aim of the course is to introduce students to housing design, from historical examples to usable knowledge on functional and spatial relations in a dwelling. Thoroughout the semester lectures introduce new pieces of information with the analyses of historcally important residential buildings. Contemporary examples are used to provide deeper insights into the extremes of dwellings of the 21st century. The semester is broken up into three parts. In the first third students get an insight into the basics of residential building design. Lectures in the second third show off the anatomy of the residnetial building where residnetial functions are analised and discussed. In the final third a possible workflow of residential building design is presented. The course is based on the textbook: Residential Building Design by Dr. János Bitó, and ends with a written exam in the exam period.

The aim of the course is to become familiar with the special construction and calculation methods of structural design. The main themes of the course include large span structures, tall buildings, shells, and space trusses. The course focuses on construction, and deals with raw calculations for conceptional design. The course prepares students for the construction of large span trusses, Vierendeel-trusses, moment frames, deep beams, shells, membranes, cables, and space trusses, that is related to architectural needs. Besides getting to know the structural systems, the subject also deals with the dimensioning of structural elements.

Statics is a compulsory first-year BSc level course of the architectural engineering curriculum, which aims to promote basic engineering skills. We focus on the theory of statics, as well as the basic steps of structural analysis and modelling. Basic concepts of mechanics are introduced (force, distributed force, moment, resultant, equilibrium). The basic elements of structural models are presented. Statically determinate structures in two and three dimensions, including beams, columns, frames, trusses, and complex structures are analysed. Reactions, internal force diagrams and their extremal values are calculated. Applications to building structures are demonstrated.

Strength of Materials 1 is a compulsory engineering basic subject. The main goal of the subject is the analysis of the materials failure of frame structures and to determine the load-bearing capacity of the structural elements. We aim to explain the theoretical basis, to present examples close to the practice of architectural engineering, and to develop the appropriate skills in solving basic structural design tasks. In addition, we also extend the principles learned from statics to some special structures (e.g. arches, cables, 3D structures).

Strength of Materials 1 is a compulsory engineering basic subject. The main goal of the subject is the analysis of the materials failure of frame structures and to determine the load-bearing capacity of the structural elements. We aim to explain the theoretical basis, to present examples close to the practice of architectural engineering, and to develop the appropriate skills in solving basic structural design tasks.

The "Landscape Architecture" and the "Sustainable and Liveable Cities" courses form a common module. Both courses are held on Fridays between 12 and 3 p.m., but do not overlap; instead, they alternate every two weeks. As part of the module, we recommend taking both courses in parallel.
The primary aim of the course is to introduce architecture students to sustainability issues at the architectural and urban design scale, and to provide practical knowledge that will help them to apply theories to practical architectural and urban design tasks. In addition to the issues of livability and sustainability, the subject will address the holistic issues of climate change, possible strategies for addressing it and how it is reshaping our perception of cities and the built environment. It will feature guest speakers from renowned authorities in the field. In addition to the theoretical lectures, a practical exercise will be carried out to assess a specific project (e.g. a complex plan) according to a rating system.

The course aims at enabling the students to have knowledge on conceptual design of sustainable load-bearing structures and sustainable rehabilitation of heritage load-bearing structures. The discussion puts the emphasis on how the embodied carbon content of the structures can be reduced by the right choice of building materials, structural forms and structural systems to fulfill the climate requirements. Important part of the course is knowledge on how the resilience, retrofitting and rehabilitation of the historical load-bearing structure may be provided on a sustainable way.

The "Landscape Architecture" and the "Sustainable and Liveable Cities" courses form a common module. Both courses are held on Fridays between 12 and 3 p.m., but do not overlap; instead, they alternate every two weeks. As part of the module, we recommend taking both courses in parallel.
The urban landscape is an interdisciplinary theoretical concept in which the concepts of landscape, open space, and garden architecture appear in close symbiosis with architectural and urban architecture approaches. For this reason, interdisciplinary interpretations of the concept can be developed primarily in the interprofessional dialogue, from the comparison of different positions and visions. The aim of the subject is the complex interpretation of the concept of the urban landscape, the search for connections between the concepts of architecture, urban architecture and related disciplines. In its multi-scale methodology, the subject examines the interpretation of the urban landscape as both an ecological and social issue. During the semester, the emphasis is placed on the theoretical and practical problems of the urbanized landscape, interprofessional dialogue with invited specialist speakers, and joint site visits.The theme of the course analyzes the transformation along the three lines of "positions, visions, concepts", which can also be understood as a model of landscape theory, through which the urbanized landscape and the green areas and gardens appearing in the urban environment can be examined from the viewpoints of different disciplines (landscape architect, garden designer, urban architect, architect, etc.) , problems of parks. Contemporary horticulture and landscape architecture projects are presented by invited speakers, with particular attention to their practical experience gained during creative work. On each occasion, the theoretical perspectives of the urban landscape are shaped by a series of scale changes emerging from different concepts. The concept of the urbanized landscape appearing in the contemporary literature directs attention to the new qualitative dimensions that try to interpret the changes in territories that are becoming malleable, borders that are blurring, and territorial identities that are getting mixed up. The ever-changing, ever-changing landscape, the ever-stronger landscape-shaping role of humanity requires new approaches to the relationship between landscape and architecture.The motto of the subject also assumes the active participation of the students, in connection with the topic of the lectures, during the semester it is possible to present individual analyzes of the raised landscape problems. The core of the occasions is shaped by joint conversations and the discussion of different points of view arising in connection with the topics.

The course is a series of lectures of the eighth semester of the regular MSc curriculum and an elective course for Erasmus students, with 2 hours lecture weekly.The goal of the course is to get students acquainted with the multidisciplinary urban challenges due to the climate change, introduced by basic theoretical knowledge and illustrated with contemporary projects from all around the world. The semester will terminate by student’s power-point presentations, demonstrating the best practices from their home countries.

The objectives of this seminar are to bring together international and Hungarian students and to encourage critical thinking about contemporary mass housing issues and potential solutions. The course aims to provide an international comparison of urban housing situations and to deepen understanding of the complexities of housing development from an architectural and urban point of view.As students come from diverse countries, the seminar creates an opportunity for mutual learning through the exploration and comparison of various case studies. The 5 double -lessons ( every second Tuesdays ) are differentiated by geopolitical context and structured around key topics (housing estates, alternative housing solutions, etc.) This seminar is linked to the Urban Housing LAB at the BME Department of Urban Planning and Design.
https://urb.bme.hu/en/urbanhousing/

The Visual Communication course aims to introduce students to: At a higher level the use of graphic design and typography tools in architectural work and visual communication. The basic principles of corporate identity design, layout, poster, publication design and Environmental Graphic Design, the purposes of their use and the tools for their creation.