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Deadline:
June 1, 2018
The Berlage Post-Master Program in Architecture and Urban Design Program
The Berlage announces its call for 2018 applicants to its post-master program, which
consists of three semesters of full-time study after which students receive a Master of
Science in Architecture and Urban Design degree, accredited by Delft University of
Technology. The Berlage encourages its students to operate disruptively within the
mainstream, to adopt speculative positions that generate provocative, personal, original,
and relevant architectural projects. The Berlage seeks applicants who are imaginative and
self-motivated, who are prepared to work both individually and collectively across a series
of design-based projects, proseminars, fieldwork excursions, and master classes, and
who are eager to participate in a rich and diverse public program.
Bare Necessities
From 2016–2019, the Berlage is structured around a multiformat thematic program called
“Bare Necessities,” revisiting the preoccupations of architectural modernism (commerce,
housing, leisure, transportation, and work), examining their sources, processes, and
legacies, and assessing their influence on contemporary practice.
Proseminars
Throughout the first two semesters, a succession of proseminars will engage students in
bridging speculative and actual architectural production, along with issues related to the
transformation of the contemporary built environment. Recent proseminars have been led
by Tom Avermaete, Salomon Frausto, Filip Geerts, Olaf Gipser, Francesca Hughes, and
Thomas Weaver, on subjects such as the role of the architect, the interrelations between
research and project, precision and measurement, and the interrelations between
centrifugality and centripetality.
Master classes
Additionally, twice a year students will work with world-renowned architects, designers,
and thinkers in an intensive workshop setting to analyze a relevant issue in the built
environment, experimenting with alternative formats of representation and dissemination.
Recent master classes have been led by Assemble, Beatriz Colomina, OMA/AMO, Rural
Urban Framework (RUF), Herman Hertzberger, and Madelon Vriesendorp.
Public program
Each semester, a public program will foster a climate of intellectual rigor and deliberate
inquiry that challenges both the traditionally conceived discipline of architecture, and the
production of the built environment at large. Recent lecturers include Kunlé Adeyemi,
Tatiana Bilbao, Tom Emerson, Pol Esteve, Anne Holtrop, Francesca Hughes, Louisa
Hutton, Joan Ockman, and Jonathan Sergison.
Teaching staff
Regular teaching staff include Tom Avermaete, Ido Avissar, Salomon Frausto, and
Thomas Weaver. Recent guest critics include Alessandra Ponte, Atelier Bow-Wow, Jean-
Louis Cohen, Sébastien Marot, Lars Lerup, Martino Tattara, and David van Severen.