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16TH EDITION MARCH-DECEMBER 2024, MADRID, SPAIN
OUTSTANDING FACULTY

MCH: Master in Collective Housing

Architecture Master's of Advanced Studies UPM/ETH in Collective Housing

Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH of Zurich

 


The Master of Architecture in Collective Housing, MCH, is a postgraduate full-time international professional program of advanced architecture design in cities and housing presented by Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). After 15 editions, it is rated as one of the best architecture master’s programs by architects and experts.
 
Next edition will start in March 2024. The application period for MCH2024 welcomed till 31.01.2024, or till no more vacancies are available. MCH is the first UPM-ETH official postgraduate program. It takes place mainly in Madrid. Apply here!
 
MCH has always committed to the highest level of excellence combining teachers of international prestige and a thorough participant selection process in order to make the best out of this course.

Program Key details

LENGTH

8 Months Lessons +
Final Submission in December

 

LOCATION

ETSA Madrid, Spain
+Studytrips

NEXT EDITION

Lessons: 01.03.24

to 20.10.24

Final Work: 02.12.24

 

LANGUAGE

English
100%

TUITION FEE

19.800 €
MCH2024

María Estela Amado Mannise
CULTURAL EXCHANGE

The exchange of culture, the different experiences and their knowledge and opinions, enrich myself as a person and as a professional. I’m sure that during this seven-month experience I have made many life long friends.

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María Estela Amado Mannise
Uruguay | 2017
Moran Amikam Darr
INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS

The MCH created many international contacts with participants and teachers, and through this, allowed me to work in an internationally acclaimed European office.

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Moran Amikam Darr
Israel | 2008
Juan José Sánchez-Aedo Arrieta
PRACTICAL AND EFFICIENT

 The specialties really take you deep into the topic, you learn a lot of things from the professors and also from classmates.

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Juan José Sánchez-Aedo Arrieta
Mexico | 2020
Beltrán Jaime Moreno Manso
CHALLENGING AND REFRESHING AT THE TIME

If you are interested in architecture and especially in the part related to collective housing and city, this master will not disappoint you. It is a breath of fresh air and at the same time a hard challenge in the path of learning this wonderful art.

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Beltrán Jaime Moreno Manso
Spain | 2019
Francisco Espinosa
PRACTICE-ORIENTATED DYNAMIC

The richness of the program relies on the intensive curriculum counting site visits, lectures, studio-work, one-week workshops and study trips. All of them integrated through practice-orientated dynamic and supported by brilliant Architects, educators, and colleagues.

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Francisco Espinosa
Chile | 2018
Alfredo Diez Torre
SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE

Professionally, the MCH has allowed me, at a very young age, to develop and build a city planning & housing project where I could apply everything learnt during my training.

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Alfredo Diez Torre
Spain | 2006

MCH Alumni Profile

15

COMPLETED
EDITIONS

Teaching about housing,
city and energy studies

>305

INTERNATIONAL
ARCHITECTS

Who have experienced the
excellence of our intensive program

38

COUNTRIES

From 5 continents: Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania

MCH Rankings

3rd

IN THE WORLD

Architecture Postgraduate
BAM Ranking

1st

IN EUROPE

Architecture Postgraduate
BAM Ranking

1st

IN SPAIN

Architecture Postgraduate
El Mundo Ranking

3rd

IN THE WORLD

Architecture School - ETH
QS Ranking 

Thermodynamic Interactions
MCH Papers 2011
Vivienda Colectiva Espana 1992-2015
Housetag. European Collective Housing 2000-2021
Vivienda, envolvente, hueco
Penshirubiru. Collective housing in Japan taken to its limits

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