MICRO DEGREE PROGRAM

ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE

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start DATE

June 12, 2021

Accepting from

Middle East

duration

3 months

Cohort #

3

Stand out from thousands of graduating architects.

Be different, elevate yourself & open global opportunities.

Architecting the future is a 3 months immersive experience working alongside leading architects & firms on real projects while acquiring the hottest in-demand skills. 

PROGRAM modules

This program consists of 6 main modules to give you a true immersive and character building experience that elevates you to the next level.

Technical Track. Experience the full life cycle of a real world project

Designing a project in the real world is very different from university. Throughout the program, you will be working alongside leading architects, in teams, on a real world project to acquire the right experience that companies look for.

  • Meeting with the client and understanding project brief 
  • Site Positioning & Analysis
  • Concept Sketches & Massing
  • Concept layouts
  • From Massing to Design Language
  • Facade & Environmental strategy 
  • Interior Layouts
  • Rendering Techniques
  • Presentations & visuals

Project Management for Architecture

Recruiters receive thousands of CVs and portfolios. You need to stand out. You have to think different in terms of landing a job. This program doesn’t only activate all Gritnova’s network to help you connect with decision makers but follows up with you weekly to make sure you’re on the right track to landing a job.

  • Understanding your Client   
  • Project economics  
  • Working with multi-disciplinary teams  
  • Risk Management   
  • Handling Client changes  
  • Value/ Differentiators (design and team)  
  • Time Management  
  • Safety in Design  
  • Mental health and Wellbeing for Architects  

Business for Architects. How to succeed in freelancing & launching your own practice.

The ultimate goal is to start freelancing and eventually launching your own studio. But the majority struggle to land clients and grow on their own. This requires special set of skills that you’ll acquire through the program. 

  • Pricing your designs/work
  • Client Negotiations
  • Landing your first client
  • All things legal (Contracts, registrations, licenses…)
  • Creative marketing 
  • Financing for architects
  • Creating your website
  • Mapping the Architecture world & positioning yourself

The Architects' character

Recruiters hire character.  It’s about how you deal with clients, teammates, managers, contractors and how you train your mind to be consistently creative

  • Personal branding 
  • What Makes A Great Architect
  • From Ego to Empathy
  • Project & Time Management

Explore Specializations

Architecture is a wide field. There are so many career paths to pursue. You will be meeting leading experts in each field to show you what each career path looks like, what it takes to be successful in it and how to start!

  • Future of Urban planning
  • Interior Design Trends
  • BIM
  • Lighting Design
  • Parametric design

Landing a job. A guide to stand out from the crowd.

Recruiters receive thousands of CVs and portfolios. You need to stand out. You have to think different in terms of landing a job. This program doesn’t only activate all Gritnova’s network to help you connect with decision makers but follows up with you weekly to make sure you’re on the right track to landing a job.

  • Personal portfolio critiques by industry experts
  • Why you shouldn’t apply to jobs from job posts. A guide to a new way to landing jobs 
  • Understanding LinkedIn’s algorithms

40+

sessions

4

hours/week

Format

Online/
physical optional

Session times

weekend or after work/study hours.

It's Hands On, Project Based And Fully Immersive

No lectures, theory or exams. None of this matter in the real world.

The real world is different than classrooms and lectures. Throughout the program you will be working alongside teams of architects to deliver projects for real clients. It’s an immersive real world program where you’ll acquire employable skills while adding tremendous experience to your CV!

It's Hands On, Project Based And Fully Immersive

No lectures, theory or exams. None of this matter in the real world.

The real world is different than classrooms and lectures. Throughout the program you will be working alongside teams of architects to deliver projects for real clients. It’s an immersive real world program where you’ll acquire employable skills while adding tremendous experience to your CV!

Personalized path

Here’s a rule of thumb to consider when choosing the right learning program:
If it’s not personalized, it’s not effective.

Each one of the 20 selected young candidate is different. You have different goals, characters, skills and mindsets. This is why our programs are limited to only 20 students per cohort. Each candidate that enrolls in the program has a personal path that is created and tracked by the experts. This makes the learning process much more effective and helps us open the right connections and opportunities for each one! 

Access a global network forever!

The value doesn’t end when you graduate. In fact, building a strategic network is what will actually open the right opportunities.

When you make it in the program, you’ll be benefiting forever. 
When the program ends, you’ll have access to our global experts network from leading companies in cities all over the world! 

Besides the network, you’ll be included in our global community and channels where we host events, share learnings and support each other to reach each one’s goals. Think of it as your everlasting learning community.

Access a global network forever!

The value doesn’t end when you graduate. In fact, building a strategic network is what will actually open the right opportunities.

When you make it in the program, you’ll be benefiting forever. 
When the program ends, you’ll have access to our global experts network from leading companies in cities all over the world! 

Besides the network, you’ll be included in our global community and channels where we host events, share learnings and support each other to reach each one’s goals. Think of it as your everlasting learning community.

Meet the experts!

Learn from award winning global experts who are advancing the field of architecture and shaping future cities & buildings

Will Campion

Architectural Designer
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

Campion founded and grew his practice while studying Architecture at the University of Bath and the University of Cambridge, eventually returning to tutor and lecture at each institution with the vision to create Sustainable Luxury Architecture. At the completion of his third award-winning project, Orchard House, Will Campion was only 25 years old. At this young age, Campion has won awards and worked at internationally acclaimed practices such as FCBS and BIG, amassing global experience on projects in New York City, London, Cambridge, Hong Kong, Orlando, Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.

Nicolas Turchi

Designer
Zaha Hadid Architects

Nicolas Turchi is a designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, an Adjunct Professor in Computational and Parametric Design at the University of Bologna and the Polytechnic of Milan. Nicolas holds a Master in Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Before joining ZHA, he worked in several international firms including Peter Eisenman Architects, Xefirotarch, Mario Cucinella Architects and 5+1AA. Nicolas is particularly interested in emergent technologies

Iman Taha

Architect & Project Manager
Jacobs

Iman is an architect and project manager with over 5 years of diverse experience in multidisciplinary design projects, a majority of which has been in the UAE.

Her current role includes tasks ranging from project management, development of design concepts and business development. Iman has experience in residential, commercial, industrial, highways, master planning and asset management projects.

Fabio Grilli

Associate Architect
 EMAAR

Fabio has 10+ years of professional experience in the fields of Architecture, Urban Planning, Design and Development Managment gained through collaborations with international companies such as EMAAR, Archea Associati, Lombardini22 (Milan), Studioninedots and Rapp+Rapp.
He has been actively involved in high-end architectural and urban designs and his portfolio includes key projects such as Dubai Creek Harbour; The Address Resort Fujairah; the tallest Tower of Tirana, Albania; large mixed-use master plan in Jinzhou-China ; an awarded project of Housing Block in Amsterdam.

Expert Highlight

WILL CAMPION

Architectural designer at Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG)
Founder of Campion design

Campion founded and grew his practice while studying Architecture at the University of Bath and the University of Cambridge. At the completion of his third award-winning project, Orchard House, Will Campion was only 25 years old, bringing a fresh innovative take on architecture to the world. At this young age, Campion has won multiple awards and worked at internationally acclaimed practices such as FCBS and BIG, amassing global experience on projects in New York City, London, Cambridge, Hong Kong, Florida, California, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia.

PROGRAM INCLUDES

training (1)

40+ hands-on physical & online sessions by the region's leading experts

montreal-biosphere

3 months immersive & real world project experience with a real client

certificate (2)

Unbeatable certificate that recruiters will love to see

interview (2)

Develop in-demand skills and get closer to leading industry experts

world (1)

Access to a community of experts, mentors and
professionals

be among the 20 young adults in the MIDDLE EAST who will work with leading experts and companies in the region and acquire the hottest in-demand skills

Stand out & be different from the thousands of graduates holding the same degree.

Let's get you on-board!

be part of the 3 months immersive PROGRAM and forever community and enjoy

Don't take our word for it, listen to our alumni

"The necessity to constantly re-equip myself and my skills are becoming more evident. This program is a great opportunity to expand on the institutional knowledge I have gained so far and improve my learning curve as I step into my career by learning from experts in the field."
Urva Parmar
University student - Dubai
"As an aspiring architect I think it is important to understand clients' concepts and do my best to implement it in a real life experience. This program is an important experience in my career to understand the world of architecture and the different job opportunities in the field."
Zuhal Imtiaz
Student at AUS
"I feel like most of the projects we have done so far in my undergraduate have been conceptual and I do not think that they have direct relations with how the real world operates."
Ezzeldin El Samanoudy
Design Student - Ajman

A new learning experience model.

Feedback sent from Rashid  Al Suwaidi – Architecting the Future Dubai program.

 

These words don’t only validate the effectiveness of the programs but inspire all of us at Gritnova to add more value to every single person who joins our global campus. Designing effective and impactful learning experiences is not easy, but seeing the impact it creates, it’s totally worth all the effort.  

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Are you an Architecture student or a fresh graduate looking to acquire the skills that companies are looking for and seeking to meet recruiters to land your dream job? If that’s you. These 3 months will elevate your professional life tremendously.

To ensure a high quality experience, each cohort is limited to only 20 students. 

You bet! Each certificate comes with a unique ID number that you can share with future employers. This ID will be used by the recruiters on our website to show your work done, the experts involved in and companies worked with. Don’t worry, they’ll be impressed.

Not at all, we’ve designed the program to be outside working/learning hours. Most sessions will be in the weekend or after work hours.

We don’t guarantee you getting a job after the program because this highly depends on your character and ability to prove yourself (Which is outside our capacity) But what we do guarantee is you meeting the recruiters of several major companies.They will be watching you in action working with the experts, plus seeing that you have acquired the skills they’re looking for and actually meeting them at the end. This puts you in a very strategic position compared to hundreds of other candidates waiting to get a reply to their emails. 

It’s a hybrid model between online and physical learning experience. We have designed the program to be as much hands-on as possible. So you will be engaging physically with the experts while taking all necessary COVID-19 measures.

No worries, all sessions will be recorded in order not to miss any content.

Start by clicking on “Reserve my seat” under one of the plans in this page which will take you to the registration page. Once registered you will receive an email with the next steps to reserve your seat and officially be on-board.

Every program has a waiting list and so will this. If all seats are already reserved, you will be added to the waiting list. If one of the registered candidates cancels their registration for some reason or emergency, we will give the first one on the waiting list the opportunity to enroll. That’s why we always encourage to reserve your seat as soon as possible.

When you receive the email after registration, you will be sent a link to either pay a deposit to claim your seat or pay the full amount. All payments are done online through our website. We accept all major debit/credit cards. If an initial deposit is paid, the remaining amount can be paid during the following 2 weeks. 

The discount code can be applied at the checkout page while submitting the payment, it will automatically discount the price.

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