Architecture

Graduates, having passed the state entrance exam, will be able to register with one of the national orders in Section A – Architecture Sector of the register of architects, planners, landscape architects and conservators (art.15, DPR n.328/2001); they will also be able to practice their activity and establish their professional headquarters in one of the member states of the European Union (Legislative Decree 206/2007, art.31/52-57).

Likewise, graduates of this single-cycle Master's Degree in Architecture (DM 270/04) who have passed the state entrance exam will be able to register with one of the national orders in section A – Civil and Environmental Engineering Sector of the Register of Engineers.

The main professional opportunities include, in addition to independent freelance work or in associated studios and design companies, highly responsible roles in public (Technical Offices) and private bodies, administrations for the government of the city and the territory including museums and cultural institutions (technical managers of the Protection structures), in professional studios, companies or businesses, operating in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction, recovery and restoration and in companies and institutions for real estate valuation.

Possibility of teaching in public education according to specific competition classes. In particular, professional opportunities are foreseeable in the following fields:

• Instrumental survey (topographic, laser scanner or photographic restitution – from drone shots, and/or from the ground, or by water) of buildings and two- or three-dimensional graphic restitution;
• drafting of stratigraphic documents of the elevations for historical architecture, for historical-cognitive skills and through software programs, aimed at archaeological surveys;
• ability to draw up diagnostic investigation plans (minimally destructive and non-destructive) aimed at the conservation of the structures and materials of historic buildings;
• three-dimensional modeling of architectural artefacts or movable objects;
• design and installation of interior spaces and/or temporary and permanent exhibition spaces;
• design and execution of new architectural organisms, with particular reference to the architectural quality of the work, construction feasibility, technological innovation, energy saving, procedural issues at the Technical Offices of the Public Administration, with access to roles through the current forms of public recruitment, or for private and/or public clients;
• restoration of both ordinary and minor historical and monumental building heritage in relation to the protection of historical-cultural values, the redevelopment and enhancement of building organisms, the conservation and recovery of construction elements and materials, for which the project and works management involves the figure of the Architect and the Civil Engineer
• architect is the only one qualified in Italy;

In this area, the figure may have access to managerial roles for technical figures in public protection structures, for access to which a degree qualification post-degree in the specific discipline is required (PhD, Specialization School, Master II level in the specific area);

• structural design and calculation;
• urban planning and design in relation to the dynamics of transformation of the city and in relation to the recovery of degraded urban areas (drafting of Regulatory Plans, Landscape Plans, Recovery Plans and Strategic or Operational Plans);
• technological design with reference to the quality of the building product as well as to the construction process, both traditional and industrialized, as well as to all recent technical construction methods aimed at environmental sustainability and energy saving (Energy certification of existing buildings and design for energy sustainability);
• organization and control of the executive phases, to the control of all the phases of the construction site in order to ensure the correct correspondence between design and production (figures of the Works Management, the Construction Site Assistant, the Construction Site Technical Director, the Construction Site Operations Director) and finally to the design of safety plans both in the design and construction phases (through the achievement of a specific qualification that can be obtained in the Degree Course through two optional, qualifying and equivalent courses to the required qualifying courses, plus 1 year of attendance at the construction site);
• economic and appraisal evaluation of existing complexes and architectural and real estate enhancement projects with possible outlets at real estate companies, or through the carrying out of appraisals by potential private clients (estimates for asset valuations for successions, sales, etc.), with updates on the new integrated building project evaluation processes (BIM and HBIM);
• consultancy and expert reports in the event of disputes as experts at the Courts and/or as party experts;
• consultancy activities for software designers for Architecture and construction; Graduates who have sufficient credits in appropriate sector groups will also be able, as required by current legislation, to participate in the admission tests for training courses for secondary school teaching.

The internship consists of a qualifying activity from a technical and professional point of view, which the student carries out in internal or external structures that have an agreement with the University, with the supervision of a tutor internal to the associated structure. The aim of the internship activity is to relate the theoretical knowledge acquired during the course of studies with the applicative aspects specifically linked to the professionalism formed during the degree course to begin working alongside professionals who are experts in the sector. Relations with extra-university structures suitable for hosting student interns (companies, public and private bodies, trade associations, voluntary associations, social cooperatives) are regulated by specific agreements. Relations with internal structures of the University are regulated by agreements with the manager of the structure. The agreements and arrangements are stipulated in compliance with the General Regulations for the performance of supplementary teaching activities and the standard agreement scheme approved by the Academic Bodies of the University. The Training and Orientation Project containing: must be attached to the agreement.

the objectives and methods of carrying out the Internship;
the name of the university tutor and that of the person responsible for the institution/company;
the identification details of the insurance companies;
the duration and period of implementation;
the insertion sector.
The agreement must be accompanied by the Activity Record Sheet of the Institution/Company. Students who have carried out or are carrying out certified or certifiable practical professional activities at public or private Institutions belonging to the type envisaged for the internship with functions and purposes strictly related to the educational objectives of the course of study, may request the Internship Commission to recognise such activities, provided they are documented, at the time of submitting the application for carrying out the training activities. The student may carry out the internship abroad. The request for an agreement from the Institution must be forwarded to the UKE PASS office.

At the end of each academic year, the teaching activities conclude with workshops on the topic of the works carried out by the students during the design laboratories. The workshops also represent an important opportunity for comparison with the professional field, allowing the architectural students to put into practice the experiences and skills acquired, through the proposals that they have developed under the supervision of the professors of the University of Enna and their Catalan colleagues.

Some editions of the workshops have been held in collaboration with companies, administrations and with the Provincial Orders of Architects and the Regional Consultation, with the aim of proposing a model of inter-sectoral participatory comparison, with a methodological perspective that foresees the collaboration of the various actors of the community (citizens, professionals, institutions), who through spaces and moments of elaboration are involved in the conception of the path of change, with the awareness that, in this process, architecture has a strong characterizing role.

La Versa Ivana

Calabrese Venere Alessandra

The Tutor has an interface role between teachers and students and takes care of, according to the general guidelines of the Dean of the Faculty and the Presidents of the Degree Courses, specific initiatives within the teaching activities of the teaching structures. Therefore, he/she carries out support activities for what concerns the optimization of learning processes: for example, he/she provides students with indications and suggestions concerning, among other things, the organization of study times, learning methodologies, planning of evaluation phases, design and drafting of the degree thesis, use of commonly used and advanced software.