Architecture and Urban Design

The art of creating and building systems

Architecture creates a material framework and conditions for the functioning and development of the whole society. In a narrower sense, architecture is the art of creating and building systems.

It is often thought that an architect only designs houses, but that is only a small, albeit prominent part of the architect’s work. Architecture also includes learning about engineering, the humanities, and various software, building endless models and prototypes to create and experiment with new structures and worlds. The most important part of architectural education takes place as practical work in a studio, in an environment similar to an architectural office, where an actual project is born from the initial sketches. Theory and engineering subjects, painting, drawing and experimental studios support the studio work.

The latter is related to the laboratories of the Faculty of Architecture (3D Laboratory, VR Laboratory, PAKK) and the research work carried out in it, where it is possible to touch the fringes of space creation. There, you can acquire knowledge and specialise in restoration, landscape architecture or planning.

Our vision for the future

Architects have the difficult task of giving modern technology a commonly comprehensible material form and face in accordance with cultural expectations; create a whole from parts whose value is greater than the sum of any individual parts. Architecture is meant to constantly innovate, rebuild and offer different visions of the future – this is also one of the important ambitions of EKA’s architecture programme.

Read more about the curriculum here.

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News and events

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Riigi Kinnisvara scholarships to EKA Faculty of Architecture MA students

In the State Real Estate scholarship competition “Tops of the Future” 2025, master’s students from the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts were awarded two scholarships. Congratulations, Ella Mari Roosi (architecture and urban design) and Ulvi Tiit (interior architecture)!
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Open Architecture Lecture: Sir Peter Cook

With an extraordinary Open Architecture Lecture, legendary architect and lecturer Sir Peter Cook will take the stage at the EKA hall on November 20 at 6 pm with a presentation “Piquant Motivations”, which will be supplemented by a quick overview of Archigram 10. The lecture will examine the topics “The piquancy of the isolated object”, “The insidious charm of vegetation” and “Odd skins and ...
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Matter of Scale – graduation project by TU Delft students in Tallinn

We invite all architecture and urbanism students to join on Monday, November 17, at 18:00, in EKA auditorium A101, to the presentation of TU Delft students work in the city of Tallinn, which is going on now for the third consecutive year. Professor Klaske Havik will give an overview of earlier projects, as this year’s students during the ongoing two weeks are  researching the city’s diverse ...
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Public Lecture: Spolka: Research and design for feminist futures

EKA Urban Studies / Architecture Public Lecture 14 Nov 2025, 18.00 Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7, A-501 Spolka: Research and design for feminist futures Spolka is a non-profit architecture and sociology studio and collective based in Košice, Bratislava, and Berlin. The lecture will focus on the foundations of Spolka’s practice–the values and positions intertwined with the messiness ...
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KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Robert Mull “The Free World”

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi. On November 27 at 6 pm Robert Mull will give a lecture “The Free World”. ...
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BAUA Awards 2025 The Grand Prix to Cristin Marii Titma

On October 25, the Faculty of Architecture and Design at RISEBA University of Applied Sciences in Riga hosted the central event of the BAUA Awards 2025 — the final presentations and award ceremony celebrating the most outstanding graduation projects by Baltic architecture students. This year’s BAUA Awards 2025, organized by the Baltic Architects Unions Association (BAUA), concluded with ...
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Abandoned Landscapes: Joaveski Paper Factory

Abandoned Landscapes: Joaveski Paper Factory Studio Project 01.2025–05.2025 The focus of the “Abandoned Landscapes” studio of the 2024/2025 academic year spring semester was the Joaveski Paperboard Factory. The studio focuses on the relationship between architecture and the environment, taking the historical industrial landscape and its potential in the modern environment as a ...
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Exhibition “Abandoned Landscapes: Joaveski Paper Factory”

We are opening the exhibition “Abandoned Landscapes. Joaveski Paper Factory” on October 31st at 3:00 PM at the Joaveski Community Center, at Lahemaa. The exhibition presents projects and models by students of the EKA Architecture and Urban Design curriculum, which explore how to value and revitalize the historic Joaveski paper factory. The Estonian Academy of Arts’ Faculty of ...

Student Work

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