STUDENT GUIDE
(2025 - 2026)
Master's degree programme in
ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTION CITY (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
COMPULSORY COURSES - ALLOCATIONS
Allocations of compulsory courses for students enrolled in the Master's degree programme
When you create your APSP/PSP, you can choose to attend your Master's degree programme entirely taught in English or with classes both in English and Italian.
The PSP of each path includes both courses that you can  select by yourself until all places in the course are full; and courses that will be assigned to students based on merit and on the order of preference expressed 
Students enrolled in previous academic years who are required to attend introductory seminars must express their order of preference by the deadline for defining their annual perosnal study plan - 12th September 2025.
If you enrolled at Politecnico in a.y. 2025/2026 for the first time, we suggest you to fill out your APSP within the 12th September 2025 so that you have the possibility to rank your courses in order of preference for courses that are allocated by means of merit ranking. After this date, the Student Careers Unit will assign the courses to students ex officio.
ELECTIVE COURSES
You are free to include any first-year course (except for the introductory seminars from Table A and Table B) in your APSP until all places in the course are full.
If the course that you have selected is available, the system will let you add it to your APSP. If there are no more places available in the course, after having saved the APSP the system will display a message as shown in the picture:
In this case, you must open your PSP again and choose another course from the list.
Please make sure that you have actually included the selected course into your APSP. It can be verified in the section "Annual personal study plan - summary"
Considering that first-semester classes begin on 22nd September 2025, we suggest you to complete your APSP within this date.
Elective courses - Italian/English-taught programme
YearGeneric code Course nameSemester
104VLXWIAtelier 11
124ICWWIInsegnamento a scelta da Tabella 1 -Progetto di strutture / Progetto di architettura off-site /  Structural Design / Low impact technology1
104VMDWIAtelier 22
105OBVWIInsegnamento a scelta da Tabella 2 - Urbanistica / Valutazione economica dei progetti / Economic evaluation of projects / Urbanism2
108IFJWIInsegnamento a scelta da Tabella 3Diritto amministrativo / Administrative law2
108IENWI Insegnamento a scelta da Tabella 4Progetto di luce e suono nel costruito / Progetto energetico nel costruito / Energy conscious design of post-carbon building2
Please note that:
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A  + CEAR-08/C, that is:
- Architettura ambiente e spazio costruito
or
- Architecture and built environment
you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-07/A, that is:
-Progetto di strutture
or
- Structural design
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A + CEAR-07/A, that is:
- Architettura e forme strutturali
or
- Architecture and structural forms
you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR- 08/C, that is:
- Low impact technology
or
- Progetto di architettura off-site
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A + CEAR-03/C, that is:
- Architettura ed economia urbana
or
- Architecture and urban economics
you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-12/8, that is:
- Urbanism
or
- Urbanistica
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A + CEAR-12/B, that is:
- Architettura e spazio urbano
or
- Architecture and urban space
you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-03/C, that is:
- Economic evaluation of project
or
- - Valutazione economica dei progetti
If you do not observe the above-mentioned matches, the system will not allow you to complete and save your APSP and the selected courses will not be added.
Elective courses -  English taught courses
Year Generic codeCourse name Semester
105VLXWIAtelier 11
102TCBWI
Free choice course from Table 1
Structural Design / Low impact technology
1
105VMDWIAtelier 22
101VUOWI
Free choice course from Table 2
Economic evaluation of project / Urbanism
2
Please note that:

- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A  + CEAR-08/C, that is:

- Architecture and built environment

you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-07/A, that is:
- Structural design
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A + CEAR-07/A, that is:
- Architecture and structural forms
you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 1 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR- 08/C, that is:
- Low impact technology
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A + CEAR-03/C, that is:

- Architecture and urban economics

you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-12/8, that is:
- Urbanism
- if you added to your APSP an Atelier 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-09/A + CEAR-12/B, that is:

-  Architecture and urban space
you will have to select only one of the two Insegnamenti a scelta da Tabella 2 with Scientific Disciplinary Field CEAR-03/C, that is:
- Economic evaluation of project
If you do not observe the above-mentioned matches, the system will not allow you to complete and save your APSP and the selected courses will not be added.

MERIT-BASED courses ALLOCATIONS
I Seminari introduttivi from Table A and Table B of the 1st year, Atelier 3 and elective courses from Table 5 and Table 6 of the 2nd year (ITA/ENG - taught programme) and Introductive Seminars from Table A, Introductive Seminars from Table B of the 1st 
year, Atelier 3  and Free choice course from Table 5 of the second year (ENG taught programme) will be assigned according to merit criteria and to the order of preference expressed when completing the annual personal study plan.
Important:
  • Outgoing mobility students must not express any preferences regarding courses offered by Politecnico di Torino during the semester/semesters they will spend abroad
  • Incoming mobility students (double degree/ Erasmus +/ bilateral agreement) must contact the International Mobility Unit
HOW TO EXPRESS THE ORDER OF PREFERENCE OF MANDATORY COURSES
How to express the order of preference
To proceed with indicating your order of preference, you must:
1. access your personal page on the Teaching portal, section "Career", portlet "Personal study plan"


2. Fill out your Personal study plan

3. "Add" the generic codes of the courses based to allocation according to merit criteria visible in the "selectable courses" section (Picture 1) in the Annual personal study plan (Picture 2).
Picture 1


Picture 2


4. After clicking on "Next", the procedure will allow you to order the courses according to your preference, using the arrows

5. To complete the step, click "Next" and verify that it has been successfully completed.


You can change the order of your preferences until the deadline of the personal study plan/annual personal study plan definition process, by returning to the personal study plan and annual personal study plan definition procedure, selecting the action "Change preferences for courses subject to ranking".


 
Allocations will take place in the following order:
  • Allocations to students attending the English-taught programme
  • Allocations to students attending the Italian/English -taught programme
Calculation of the merit score 
The score of the merit ranking list is calculated as follows:

Students enrolled in a Master's degree programme 

Calculation of the merit score 
(total weighted average Three-year degree * 180) + [(GR1 * CFU1) + (GR2 * CFU2) + (GRn * CFUn)] _________________________________________________________________________________________          
 6 + number of semesters of enrollment in the Master's degree programme 
6 is the minimum number of semesters required to attain the Bachelor's degree.
The number of semesters is intended as the number from the student’s first enrolment in the Master's degree programme; the calculation only takes into account the exams accepted and validated by Politecnico di Torino.
For allocations of 1st semester courses the merit is calculated taking into account the exams taken by each student by the end of the July 2025 examination session.
For allocations of 2nd semester courses the merit is calculated taking into account the exams taken by each student by the end of the September 2025 examination session.
If several students have the same position on the ranking list but the number of available seats is less than required, places in the course will be offered taking into account the number of exams passed with honors by each student, and subsequently by random computerized drawing.
If you do not express your order of preference by the above-mentioned deadlines,  you will be automatically assigned to the courses with residual places.
If necessary, the Student Careers Unit - Architecture may open a new time frame to rank the courses in order of preference (on top of the standard period), provided that there are at least two courses wih available places.
Allocations cannot be changed under any circumstances.
Students Italian/English-taught programme
AnnoCodiceDenominazione insegnamentoSemester
1 01VLMWISeminari introduttivi da Tabella A 1
1 01VLRWISeminari introduttivi da Tabella B 1
2 04VMMPQ Atelier 3  1 
2 02IDPPQInsegnamento a scelta da Tabella 5 Modellazione digitale parametrica / Restauro / Building information modeling / Restoration 1
2 04IDXPQInsegnamento a scelta da Tabella 6 Storia dell'architettura e della città A / Storia dell'architettura e della città B / Architectural and Urban history1
Atelier 3:
The allocation to Atelier 3 will be based on merit criteria and on the order of preference expressed when defining the personal study plan/annual personal study plan.

Elective course from Table 5
The allocation of elective course from Table 5 will be based on merit criteria, on the order of preference expressed and the Scientific Disciplinary Fields present in the assigned Atelier 3.
If you added to your APSP an Atelier 3 with Scientific Disciplinary Field ICAR/14 + ICAR/17, that is:

- Architettura e progettazione computazionale
or
-Architecture and computational design
you may only be assigned to one of the courses listed in Table 5 pertaining to the scientific disciplinary field ICAR/19, that is:
- Restauro or Restoration
If you added to your APSP an Atelier 3 with Scientific Disciplinary Field ICAR/14 + ICAR/19, that is:

- Architettura e restauro 
or
-Architecture and restoration 
you may only be assigned to one of the courses listed in Table 5 pertaining to the scientific disciplinary field ICAR/17, that is:
- Modellazione digitale parametrica or Building information modeling
Elective course from Table 6
The allocation will be based on merit criteria and on the order of preference expressed when defining the personal study plan/annual personal study plan.

Elective course from discipline affini o integrative
The course of interest must be selected directly from the personal study plan and included in the annual personal study plan when defining the personal study plan/annual personal study plan.
Students English-taught programme
YearGeneric codeCourse nameSemester
1 01DWUWI Introductive Seminars from Table A 1
1 01VLYWI Introductive Seminars from Table B    1 
2 05VMMPQ Atelier 3 1
2 01VPFPQ Free choice course from Table 5  Restoration/Building information modeling 1

Atelier 3
The allocation to Atelier 3 will be based on merit criteria and on the order of preference expressed when defining the personal study plan/annual personal study plan.

Elective course from Table 5
The allocation of elective course from Table 5 will be based on merit criteria, on the order of preference expressed and on the Scientific Disciplinary Fields present in the assigned Atelier 3.

If you added to your APSP an Atelier 3 with Scientific Disciplinary Field ICAR/14 + ICAR/17, that is:

-Architecture and computational design
you may only be assigned only to the Elective course from Table 5 pertaining to the scientific disciplinary field ICAR/19, that is:
- Restoration
If you added to your APSP an Atelier 3 with Scientific Disciplinary Field ICAR/14 + ICAR/19, that is:

-Architecture and restoration 
you may only be assigned to one of the courses listed in Table 5 pertaining to the scientific disciplinary field ICAR/17, that is:
- Building information modeling
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