Objectives and competences

The generic objectives of this doctorate are to develop research in architecture through a series of lines already experimented and to encourage the emergence of new ones through the internship transversality and multidisciplinarity. Through the training provided by the program and its staff effort, guided and directed by experienced faculty , students will acquire the different competencies that correspond to the doctorate and will achieve the mastery of a series of skills and abilities that will enable them for the autonomous exercise of research.

Core competences

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.

• Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.

• Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.

• Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.

• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.

• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a society based on knowledge.

Personal skills and abilities

• Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.

• Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.

• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.

• Work both in a team and autonomously in an international context or multidisciplinary.

• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgements with limited information.

• Intellectual critique and defence of solutions.