Introduction to the entrepreneurial activity, Survival and growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the managerial aspects of SMEs compared to large firms, the benefits and drawbacks of being an entrepreneur, developmental structures and designs, focus development, management during fast growth periods, lack of resources and financing, development of sustainable intangible resources

Introduction to modern programming design techniques using C and C++. A study of basic programming constructs, techniques, and fundamental control structures, Object-Oriented and modular programming, data types, functions, arrays, and pointers, problem analysis, decomposition, and modern programming paradigms and methodologies.

Aim & Description Main Topic: Basic Form and Structure Architecture - Basic spatial structures with the sense of proportion and relations, measuring, technical drawing and modelling, comprehension and sensibility of the surrounding built reality, spatial experience with critical observation and analysis. The course content follows design fundamentals working with initial experiential physical

Main Topic: Public Realm and Street Design Architecture - Space design with an open collective program (markets, meeting points, transportation hubs, etc…), applies concepts and methods taught to develop user-sensitive context-specific design with a basic technical and structural logic, translating systems of user activity settings into the required supportive environment based on the functional

Architecture – This studio applies all principles learnt in ARU241 Dwelling and Neighbourhood Design to design dwellings and their aggregation into buildings and clusters fulfilling the meaning of home, and considering social, psychological and cultural aspects of everyday life, the variation in user needs by age, sex and ability, and innovative housing typologies and layout design that achieves

Main topic: Medium Size Public Facilities and Collective Space Architecture - Drawing from people-centred courses on special building types and considering social, psychological and cultural user-need variables of different user groups to design medium sized facilities (e.g., schools, health centres, libraries, etc.) designed to enhance the relation between function in its broadened definition

Main topic: City Extension and innovative Architecture Architecture – Designing new buildings that are based on fast-changing needs of humanity, faster-evolving technologies, address the relation between human-oriented design and experimental technology-driven forces, cities and lifestyles of the future, design innovative buildings, complex structural and high-tech building solutions, materials

Main Topic: Urban Regeneration and Adaptive Re-use Architecture – Designing ‘acupuncture’ interventions in the form of new buildings and adaptive re-use of existing buildings with student-developed programs to retrofit their spatial, functional, and material configuration, incorporating existing valuable elements into a hybrid project that introduces, reviving and conserving the living heritage

Graduation Project I and II constitute a 2-term studio that synthesize knowledge of the Architecture and Urban Design Program through a multidisciplinary, integrative and professional approach. The course aims to develop the students’ personal skills to enable them to provide critical responses and demonstrate independence and ability to tackle a wide range of architectural and urban design

Graduation Project I and II constitute a 2-term studio that synthesize knowledge of the Architecture and Urban Design Program through a multidisciplinary, integrative and professional approach. The course aims to develop the students’ personal skills to enable them to provide critical responses and demonstrate independence and ability to tackle a wide range of architectural and urban design

Freehand sketching, contours and cross-contours, praline drawings, shade and shadows, model making, and architectural representation, digital sketching and mixing techniques of representation, graphical solution to three dimensional spatial problems, an exploration of different methods and graphical solutions, perception discussing concepts such as (enclosure, complexity, uniformity, etc.), VR lab

Drawing and modeling as a tool of communication, observation and perception, form and proportion, representation, analysis and diagramming using a variety of materials and media, digital graphic communication tools and techniques in building and urban space, representation and modelling, use of infographics and representation techniques of space and form in 2D and 3D using digital modeling, visual

Understanding architectural terminology, themes and building types used in world architecture from Greek and Roman periods up until the 17th Century, acquire the knowledge of significant structures and buildings in their historical, regional, and cultural contexts in this period, explore the definitions of architecture and style as well as the relation between the built environment and the socio

Introduction to Modern Architecture and the Contemporary Architecture of the 21st century, developments followed the 19th C. and industrial revolution into the 20th C, theories of Modern Architecture, global trends in the design, characteristics of “Modernism” and its different phases, the history of modern architecture from its intellectual and artistic origins, an overview of contemporary

The aim of this course is to enable students to design public spaces based on an understanding of how people perceive, understand, and utilize urban space, that would in turn lead to future places that are supportive to what people want to do, minimizing the chance of misuse or neglect of these spaces. The course covers the seminal normative theories of urban design and landscape design

Introduction to the fundamentals of thermal aspects of building performance, building physics, heat and mass transfer in buildings, thermal comfort, energy performance of buildings, determination of heating and cooling loads of buildings, solar controls and shadings, thermal optimization of buildings, energy-efficient and sustainable building design, human ecology, climate, moisture control in