By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities, setting a challenge for architects: to create spaces and buildings that will enhance the quality of life with functional, comfortable, aesthetic and sustainable proposals. As an B.A in Architecture graduate, you will be able to work in multidisciplinary teams seeking to transform human habitat; participate in initiatives and projects aimed at enabling spaces that will contribute to social and economic development.
Career field
On graduating from the B.A in Architecture program, you will be competent in:
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 human habitat in order to enhance people’s quality of life, then the Architecture program is the right option for you.
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.
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 Built Environment.
You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Built Environment, 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
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
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
B.A. in Architecture Syllabus
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)