12 monthsProgramme duration
44,400 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MArch
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Architectural Design MArch explores the frontiers of architecture and design through emerging technologies that are transforming architectural design, production, and research. Taught through a studio-based design research culture, you develop innovative architectural systems and speculative design propositions through advanced computation, AI, robotics, fabrication, simulation, and material experimentation.
You work within Research Clusters, specialist teaching groups led by internationally renowned researchers and practitioners, each with its own research agenda, design methodology, and technical focus. Within your cluster, you work collaboratively in a team while developing your own research focus and contribution. The clusters connect emerging technologies with technological, environmental, social, and cultural questions, with recent themes exploring autonomous systems, climate futures, the housing crisis, platform economies, post-humanism, material lifecycles, ecological systems, and new forms of architectural practice.
Your work progresses through iterative, research-driven investigations that collectively develop a year-long design research thesis project, supported by tutorials, workshops, and design reviews. You test ideas through physical and digital methods, including computation, AI and machine learning, generative design, robotic manufacturing, game engines, material experimentation and prototyping. Alongside technical exploration, theoretical, historical, and cultural research helps frame design questions and position your work within wider architectural debates.
You also produce an individual design thesis report that develops the theoretical, technical, and cultural context for your research. The course culminates in a final portfolio and public exhibition at the annual Autumn Show, providing a platform to present your work to academics, practitioners, industry professionals, and the public. Graduates leave equipped to operate at the forefront of architectural innovation, applying advanced design research methods, emerging technologies, and critical enquiry to develop innovative architectural systems and new forms of architectural practice.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Architecture and Built Environment
Degree
MArch
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Architectural Design MArch explores the frontiers of architecture and design through emerging technologies that are transforming architectural design, production, and research. Taught through a studio-based design research culture, you develop innovative architectural systems and speculative design propositions through advanced computation, AI, robotics, fabrication, simulation, and material experimentation.
You work within Research Clusters, specialist teaching groups led by internationally renowned researchers and practitioners, each with its own research agenda, design methodology, and technical focus. Within your cluster, you work collaboratively in a team while developing your own research focus and contribution. The clusters connect emerging technologies with technological, environmental, social, and cultural questions, with recent themes exploring autonomous systems, climate futures, the housing crisis, platform economies, post-humanism, material lifecycles, ecological systems, and new forms of architectural practice.
Your work progresses through iterative, research-driven investigations that collectively develop a year-long design research thesis project, supported by tutorials, workshops, and design reviews. You test ideas through physical and digital methods, including computation, AI and machine learning, generative design, robotic manufacturing, game engines, material experimentation and prototyping. Alongside technical exploration, theoretical, historical, and cultural research helps frame design questions and position your work within wider architectural debates.
You also produce an individual design thesis report that develops the theoretical, technical, and cultural context for your research. The course culminates in a final portfolio and public exhibition at the annual Autumn Show, providing a platform to present your work to academics, practitioners, industry professionals, and the public. Graduates leave equipped to operate at the forefront of architectural innovation, applying advanced design research methods, emerging technologies, and critical enquiry to develop innovative architectural systems and new forms of architectural practice.
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