The architecture course at HCU is characterised by a broad interdisciplinary network with the study programmes Urban Planning, Metropolitan Culture, Civil Engineering, REAP, Urban Design, Geodesy and TGAmitDI as well as the involvement of external cooperation partners. This promotes knowledge transfer and practical relevance and offers space to work on socially relevant and overarching topics, and promotes strategic thinking, reasoning and action. The HCU strives to provide intensive support in small student groups with a high degree of professorial supervision.

Architecture at the HCU has broad interdisciplinary links with the degree programmes Urban Planning, Metropolitan Culture, Civil Engineering, REAP, Urban Design and Geomatics as well as external cooperation partners. This promotes knowledge transfer and practical relevance and offers space to work on socially relevant and overarching topics, and promotes strategic thinking, reasoning and action. The HCU strives to provide intensive support in small student groups with a high degree of professorial supervision.

Opportunity to study at one of the 44 partner universities in more than 20 countries for three to twelve months, support for outgoing students by the International Office, support for incoming students by Student Services (individual advice, support in the organisation of stays abroad, arrangement of places). Regular summer schools in cooperation with international universities (e.g. Ho Chi Minh City, Lyon). Professorships responsible for interfaces organise joint international Courses.

HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) licenses the following specialist databases: Avery Index to Architectural; Periodicals; Bautabellen-digital; Bautechnik-digital; Building Types Online; DETAIL inspiration; nautos (DIN standards, Association of German Engineers (VDI) guidelines, German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA) regulations); RSWB®plus – Literature on Planning and Building International; SCHADIS® – The database on structural damage; SIRADOS Baupreise.de Premium; Urban Studies Abstracts; Testing and Certification Institute (VDE) standards library; Scopus; An HPC cluster (high-performance computing cluster) is available to the department.

The HCU is conceived as a profile university with a focus on metropolitan development and building culture. In addition to discipline-specific research questions, topics are also dealt with from an inter- and transdisciplinary viewpoint. Insights are gained through natural sciences and engineering, planning, design and artistic as well as cultural and social science approaches. The HCU is part of a wide network of universities and research institutions and promotes young scientists with a variety of funding programmes and grants.

Quiet room for expectant and breastfeeding mothers including nappy changing facilities and sleeping facilities for small children; Part-time study