Course General Description

If you want to become a professional architect, at PUCP you will get a thorough academic training based on humanistic and scientific education, integrated with the experience of the architectural project, the study of our physical space, the society and the contemporary culture. Thanks to this education you will be able to do projects in which you will need to integrate cultural, social, landscaping, geographic, functional and economic requirements maintaining the harmony with the environment. In addition, the solid ethical and intellectual foundations provided by PUCP will enable you to do works to address the demands and needs of the Peruvian society or any other foreign society.

School General Description

Founded in 1917 by Catholic priest Father Jorge Dintilhac SS.CC as Peru's first non-profit private institution of higher learning, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú or PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. Students can study courses in architecture and urbanism, arts, performing arts, science, engineering, communications, accounting, social sciences and management. It is home to 19,000 full-time undergraduate students, 5,600 graduate students and over 500 international students. The main campus is located in the Lima district of San Miguel, with the newly built Mac Gregor complex. PUCP is dedicated to promoting and developing new research - it has 17 institutes and research centres, with notable mention for the Structures Laboratory and the Centre of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (CETAM).