Learning architecture outside the classroom: Trips, workshops, and international experiences
DATE
06.11.2026
Advanced training in architecture and design requires transcending the physical limits of the classroom to confront academic theory with built reality and the dynamism of the global professional sector.
In this context, international study trips are consolidated as a fundamental pedagogical tool, allowing students of a program that includes all this and more—such as the MBA MArch Advanced master’s degree in architecture, design, and business administration—to explore firsthand the most emblematic works of contemporary benchmarks in key destinations such as Venice, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Switzerland, Porto, or Japan, analyzing in situ their integration with the landscape and material mastery.
Likewise, the learning methodology is structured through intensive workshops taught by architects and creators of international prestige. These practical workshops, which take place in Olot led by RCR Arquitectes and in Lisbon at the studio of Manuel Aires Mateus himself, foster direct experimentation, construction rigor, and the exchange of ideas in an environment of maximum inspiration such as the Espai Alfaro.
This experiential immersion is complemented by a close connection with the business fabric and benchmark studios, enabling students to understand not only the design dimension of a project, but also the challenges of management, industrial production, and communication in the current market.
This experiential and international approach, present in the MArch Valencia postgraduate programs, equips those who take them with a global, critical, and highly qualified vision, preparing them to successfully lead their own projects in the contemporary architectural landscape.
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