Doctoral Degree Program Architecture and Building Engineering
Branch of study Sustainable development and industrial heritage

The program is designed train professionals in field of the conservation of Czech industrial heritage, which is a part of European industrial heritage. It teaches students methods of registration, evaluation and categorization and how to identify options for conservation and adapted new use. The program covers the current issue of so-called brownfields, industrial sites degraded and then abandoned by industry. The study program touches on relevant sociological, environmental, and industrial-archeological issues.

Graduates of the doctoral program will be thoroughly knowledgeable engineers with comprehensive knowledge of architectural and structural design and the historical and theoretical roots of architecture and urbanism. They will be knowledgeable in both contemporary and historical structures (including design theory and technology), building materials, and the technological methods used to preserve them. They will also be prepared to deal with the regeneration and development of urban and rural areas. Compared to graduates of the master´s program doctoral graduates will have a much deeper ground in science and theory that will enable them to take new stands (develop new outlooks), create new methods, and devise solutions to newly emerging problems relating to sustainable development, and to do so while also being able to assess the environmental impact of the development of urban and rural areas. Graduates will be especially prepared for employment as conceptual workers in important institutions engaged in the development of settlements, their regeneration and rehabilitation, including the reconstruction of monuments, and will be equally prepared to work in management and decision-making bodies of state administration, or to take up teaching and research positions at universities and research centers.