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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2025 year’s J. Holt scholarship for Valerii Krinberg

This year’s Jaan Holt Scholarship is awarded to Valerii Krinberg, a student of architecture and urban planning, for his outstanding and active professional activities. Architecture students are encouraged already 6th year by Jaan Holt, an Estonian architect of Virginia origin and Professor Emeritus of Virginia Tech, with a scholarship. The purpose of the scholarship is to support the studies, ...
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Abandoned Landscapes: Kohila Paper Mill

Abandoned Landscapes: Kohila Paper Mill. Studio Project 01.2023–06.2023 The Abandoned Landscapes studio for the 2022/2023 spring semester focused on Kohila Paper Mill. Throughout the semester, students made multiple visits to Kohila and the paper mill, thoroughly analyzing its built environment and the broader area, mapping both its potential and its challenges. Through independent ...
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Gallery: opening of Spatialist Studio’s exhibition “Silicate Ontology I. A Material and Social History 1900-2025” at EKA Gallery

Spatialist Studio’s exhibition “Silicate Ontology I. A Material and Social History 1900-2025” opened at EKA Gallery on Friday, April 11. The exhibition will remain open until April 27, 2025. Curated by: Henri Kopra ja Iiris Tähti Toom (Spatialist Studio) Technical support: Erik Hõim The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Association of Architects, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, ...
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Workshop in Massia: On the Commons

From March 24–29, 2025 students from across disciplines – architecture, fine arts, urban studies, interior design, craft studies, sculpture, and contemporary art – gathered at MASSIA in southwestern Estonia for a week-long workshop on the commons: land, knowledge, and practice. MASSIA, a self-organised residency rooted in collective care and autonomy, became both the setting and ...
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Open architecture lecture: Taktyk

The 2025 Spring semester session of the Open Lectures ”City as novel ecosystem” focuses on landscape architecture and, more specifically, urban nature.  The lecture series is being put together by landscape architects Karin Bachmann, Merle Karro-Kalberg and Anna-Liisa Unt, who have co-founded and edited the landscape architecture magazine ÕU for 7 years and are currently leading the project ...
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Open Architecture Lecture: Jan van Schaik

The 2025 spring semester session of the Open Lectures “City as Novel Ecosystem” focuses on landscape architecture, specifically the interaction of the city, people and nature. In connection with the EKA doctoral school conference taking place on April 10, the lecture series will include a lecture by one of the seminar’s keynote speakers on the meaning of research methods. On April 10 ...
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Open Architecture Lecture: Jan van Schaik

The 2025 spring semester session of the Open Lectures “City as Novel Ecosystem” focuses on landscape architecture, specifically the interaction of the city, people and nature. In connection with the EKA doctoral school conference taking place on April 10, the lecture series will include a lecture by one of the seminar’s keynote speakers on the meaning of research methods. On ...
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Open Architecture Lecture: Ingo Kowarik

The 2025 Spring semester session of the Open Lectures ”City as novel ecosystem” focuses on landscape architecture and, more specifically, urban nature.  The lecture series is being put together by landscape architects Karin Bachmann, Merle Karro-Kalberg and Anna-Liisa Unt, who have co-founded and edited the landscape architecture magazine ÕU for 7 years and are currently leading the ...

Student Work

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