B.A. in Architecture
Sustainable spaces and cities
Career field
On graduating from B.A. in Architecture, you will be able to dedicate your career to:
- Offer architectural solutions based on analysis that starts with an in-depth understanding of social needs in diverse contexts, using a systemic approach.
- Design architectural spaces applying habitability, constructability and sustainability criteria.
- Work in prestigious architecture firms.
- Form part of multidisciplinary teams lined to the government, NGOs, and the private and business sectors.
- Develop building projects based on design premises, safety criteria, legality, technical and construction rigor, and sustainability.
- Manage architectural and real-estate projects from the detection of needs to human, financial, and technical-building operation. resources operation, applying a comprehensive vision for the habitat.
Is this right for you?
If you are aware of the grave consequence of the unbridled development of cities and feel that you have the capacity to transform through creativity, urban planning, creating inspiring spaces, and teamwork the world around you. This is in order to enhance people's quality of life. Then B.A. in Architecture is the right degree for you.
Objective:
The B.A. in Architecture program at Tecnológico de Monterrey has the goal to educate professionals that plan, design, build and manage architectural and urban spaces that people need to fully develop. Its graduates are designers of sustainable spaces, promoters of real estate opportunities, with a solid urban and environmental awareness and mastery of technologies for design, representation and construction. They have a critical attitude, a humanistic conscience and a social and ethical commitment through environmental preservation and the economic and social improvement of their community.
Competencies
- Generate architectural solutions based on research methods that respond to users’ needs, with a systemic approach.
- Design architectural spaces applying inhabitability, constructability and sustainability criteria.
- Develop building projects based on design premises, safety criteria, legality, technical and construction rigor, and sustainability.
- Manage architectural and real-estate projects from the conception to their operation, applying a comprehensive vision for the habitat.
Entry profile
Tecnológico de Monterrey is looking for a new generation of students that have finished their high school studies and are talented, enthusiastic individuals, who are committed to the development of their environment and the wellbeing of society; people who have the potential to study an undergraduate program and become leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit, humanistic sense and competitive on an international stage.
Entry requirements: High school or equivalent.
B.A. in Architecture (BA)
Este programa se ofrece también como B.A. in Architecture en idioma inglés permitiendo a los egresados contar con un perfil multicultural.
Si cuentas con un nivel de inglés B2 de acuerdo al Marco Común Europeo de Referencia (MCER) podrás estudiar este Bachelor donde tendrás la oportunidad de:
• Cursar unidades de formación impartidas en inglés
• Realizar proyectos con socios formadores de perfil transnacional
• Cursar unidades de formación con profesores Elite Huésped Internacionales así como con estudiantes extranjeros
• Cursar concentraciones, Semanas TEC y/o Semestre TEC en inglés dentro y fuera de México (opcional)
• Obtener una constancia de Bachelor en tu graduación al cumplir con los requisitos del programa, adicional al título de Arquitectura
Para poder obtener la constancia de Bachelor deberás:
• Cursar al menos el 75% de los créditos del programa en inglés
• Demostrar un nivel de dominio C1 del idioma inglés referenciado al MCER, en alguno de los exámenes autorizados por la Institución
• Cumplir con los requisitos para obtener un título profesional en el Tecnológico de Monterrey
The three stages of the model
Choose your path
Exploration
- You will open your competency file and add to it throughout your degree program.
- You will learn the foundations of the area of Creative Studies.
- You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Creative Studies, interacting with peers from different degree programs.
- You will study general education courses, selecting them from a collection.
- You will participate in a challenge that integrates all the competencies to be developed in this phase.
Focus
- You will acquire the core competencies of your degree, in other words, those that distinguish it.
- You will participate in more focused challenges to reinforce what you have learned and broaden your basic knowledge.
- You will have the elements to decide whether to deepen your knowledge or diversify and, subsequently, build your specialization plan.
- The Tec Weeks, challenges and overall university experiences will enrich your file.
Specialization
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You have decided between diversifying or focusing deeply in your major, which you will achieve by choosing a concentration or a stay, to name a few of your options. The TEC Semester is a flexible time to start.
- You will develop the competencies related to your specialization, increasingly connected to your passions, interests and plans.
- By passing a concentration, you will develop your competencies, and, on graduating, will be a candidate for obtaining a Diploma in that concentration, after meeting the established requirements.
How can you specialize?
Concentrations
Specialize in one of the different concentrations available at the campus of your choice, according to the profile you would like to develop.
Internships
Internships allow you to participate in the development of specific projects with companies, organizations, or research groups, in a context of total immersion related to a specialty field. They can be carried out locally, nationally or internationally.
International experiences
Experience life outside Mexico to broaden your horizons and delve into the topics of your interest.
Courses or blocks
Choose the education units that best adapt to your objectives, enabling you to specialize in your specific interests.
Concentrations
Disciplinary
Delve into your field of study
- Advanced Architecture
- Art and Architecture Theory, History and Criticism
- Arts and Tech Incubator
- Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- City Development
- Digital Journalism
- Efficiency and Digitalization in Construction
- Entrepreneurship in the Creative and Cultural Industries
- Open Innovation and Technology Transfer
- Real State Intelligence
- Regenerative Design
- Technology-Based Design and Futures
- User Experience and Interfaces
Transversal
Delve into other fields of study
- Conscious Business
- Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Tools
- Design, Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Families, Sustainability and Transcendence
- Entrepreneurship in Action
- Financial Vision for Decision-Making
- Government and Public Transformation
- Mexican Culture
- Quality of Life and Well-Being
- Social Innovation
- Jewelry Design, Manufacturing and Marketing
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Track integrating block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
Final integrating block (CHALLENGE)
| ARQ |
| 1st |
| Creativity and Design |
| Methodologies of Investigation for Projects of Design |
| Elective Course Mathematics and Science |
| 2nd |
| Methods of Design |
| Technologies of Spatial Representation and of Image |
| Elective Course Humanities and Fine Arts |
| 4th |
| Architecture and Contexts |
| Community Facilities |
| Research and Architectural Project |
| Elective Course Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
| 5th |
| Collective Housing |
| Single Family Home |
| Constructibility |
| Elective Course Ethics and Citizenship |
| 6th |
| Elective I |
| Elective II |
| Elective III |
| Elective IV |
| Elective V |
| Elective VI |
| 7th |
| Professional Elective I |
| Professional Elective II |
| Professional Elective III |
| Professional Elective IV |
| Professional Elective V |
| Professional Elective VI |
| 8th |
| Elective Multidisciplinary Professional |
| Entrepreneurship in the Field of Architecture |
| Architectural Management |
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