Program Overview

University Program Information

The university offers a range of programs, including Bachelor's, Integrated Master's, Master's, Post-graduation's, and PhD's.

Degrees

• Bachelor's
  • Design
  • Fashion Design
  • General Studies
• Integrated Master
  • Architecture | Specialization Profiles
• Master's
  • Communication Design
  • Fashion Design
  • Product Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Territorial Management and Urban Studies
  • In partnership outside FA
• Post-graduation's
• PhD's
  • Architecture
  • Urbanism
  • Design

Research

• Research Units
• HR Excellence in Research

International

• International cooperation
• Incoming Students
• Outgoing Students
• Degree and Diploma Recognition

Organization

• About
• Press Release
• Agendas FA.ULisboa
• Ofertas de emprego

Doctorate in Urbanism (PhD)

The PhD in Urbanism was created in Portugal within the Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, with the first defended thesis in 1990. The current doctoral study results from the adaptation of the old study to the Bologna process, and continues to be the only PhD in Urbanism offered by public universities in Portugal.

Aim of the Study

The PhD in Urbanism has as its main goal to provide training guided towards the development of advanced individual research, preferably integrated in assessed and financed projects, conducing to the generation and transmission of knowledge. The specific goals are intellectual satisfaction, the acquisition of advanced competences that allow for the exercise of professional practice in a more informed way, with competitive advantages, and the contribution to the development of society and the economy.

Study Plan

The study plan combines Course Units of a theoretical-practical nature, in a seminar format and through tutorial supervision, as a way to ensure a teacher-student relation that implies a guided work. The study plan was conceived in order to integrate invited teachers at all stages of the curricular path, allowing the recognition of credits earned at partnering institutions, with which FA holds bilateral or special mobility programmes.

Research Groups

• FORMA URBIS LAB
• GESTUAL
• GEU
• MURBS
• URBinLAB
• DESIGN AND COMPUTATION GROUP
• GESTU
• URBANIDADES EMERGENTES
• SUSTENTA

Material Resources

The FA provides its students with a wide set of spaces to support academic life in its diverse stages, including: the library, the reprography, the 'espaço 24 horas' (24-hour space, where students can develop their work), the editorial centre, the multimedia office, the photography and videography studio, the cartography and media library, the computing centre (CIFA), the fashion design sewing atelier, the workshops, the rapid prototyping lab (LPR), the colour lab (LABCOR), the photography and synthesis image lab (LAFIS), the 3D scanning lab, the intellectual property and knowledge transfer office, and the School's incubator.

Accolades/Awards

• Best overall grade average of the course: José Lamas Award (300€)

Program Structure

The program offers two different schedules, and the candidates must choose the one they prefer when registering, taking into account the registration periods for each option:

• Regular Program, with in-person classes from September to November (first semester) and from February to May (second semester), with weekly classes on Fridays and classes taught exclusively in English.
• Intensive Program, with in-person classes from January/February (first semester) and June/July (second semester), concentrating each semester's classes daily over 5 weeks, and classes taught exclusively in Portuguese.

Timeline

• Course Start and Opening: Regular schedule during the month of September, Intensive schedule during the month of January.
• End of the 1st Academic Year: Regular schedule end of May, with assessments taking place in June and July, Intensive schedule end of July, with assessments taking place in November and December.