Research doctorate (PhD)
Doutoramento em Arquitetura
PhD in Architecture
Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa · Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa · Lisbon, Portugal
- Official award
- Doutoramento em ArquiteturaPhD
- Pathway
- ResearchStated for Portugal
- Format
- Hybrid4 anos, 8 semestres, 240 ECTS
- Tuition
- Not published
Hybrid program
About this program
Four-year, 240 ECTS PhD in five specialities, with an in-person first year and distance learning afterwards; offered on a weekly (English) or intensive (Portuguese) calendar.
- Subject
- Architecture
- Department
- Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa
- Awarding body
- Universidade de Lisboa
Qualification and professional pathway
Pathway is classified only from a statement on an official page. A degree title such as B.Arch, BA, BSc, M.Arch or MSc does not decide it, and no degree by itself grants permission to practise as an architect.
- Degree level
- Research doctorate (PhD)A research doctorate focused on architecture (PhD, Dr.-Ing. and equivalents).
- Pathway
- Research degreeA research degree. It does not qualify anyone to practise as an architect.
- Why we classify it this way
- Research doctorate aimed at advanced individual research.“formação orientada para o desenvolvimento de investigação avançada individual”Source
- Previous architecture degree required
- Not published
- Applicants without an architecture degree
- Not published
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional recognition, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and eligibility toward registration are different things; none of them is full professional registration.
No accreditation, validation or registration-pathway record for this program has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- HybridPart online and part in person (studios, residencies, assessments or placements). A hybrid degree is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Blended with required campus elements
- Campus studio required
- Not published
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Year 1 is taught in person; years 2 to 4 are taught at a distance (e-learning)
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- 4 anos, 8 semestres, 240 ECTS
- Credits
- 240 ECTSCredit systems differ between countries and institutions.
- Campus attendance
- First year in person
- Thesis or dissertation
- Defence of the Tese in the final stage
- Intakes
- September (normal regime), January (intensive regime)
- Campus
- FA.ULisboa, Lisbon
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English, Portuguese
- English
- Partly taught in EnglishAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
- Differences by campus or pathway
- Two calendars: the normal regime is taught in English, the intensive regime in Portuguese.
Admissions
- Portfolio
- Not published
- Interview
- Not published
Research degree details
- Department
- Faculdade de Arquitetura (research centre CIAUD)
- Research themes
- Teoria e Prática do Projeto
- Teoria e História
- Tecnologia e Gestão da Construção
- Desenho e Computação
- Conservação e Reabilitação
- Research proposal
- Thesis project (Projeto de Tese) approved at the end of the first year
- Residency expectations
- First year in person, then distance learning
- Study modes
- Normal regime (Fridays, September to May) or intensive regime (5-week blocks)
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether studio, materials, printing, software, equipment and field-trip costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, full-time or part-time options, portfolio requirement, whether a previous architecture degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 19 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)