Architecture MArch 24 months Postgraduate Programme By UCL |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

24 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

40,800 GBPTuition Fee/year

Starting Month

SepStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

Architecture and Built Environment

Degree

MArch

Study Level

Master's

Study Mode

On Campus

The Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) is a two-year professionally accredited course. Taught through the Bartlett’s studio culture, the course encourages experimentation, critical thinking and design innovation.


Across the two years, you spend more than half your time learning in studios, or design units. Design units are small groups led by practising architects, designers and academics, each with its own architectural agenda, methods and approach to design research. At the start of each academic year, units present their themes and methodologies before students select their preferred units. Many students remain in the same unit across both years, developing an individual design position through sustained studio-based research and experimentation.


Alongside your studio work, you study architectural history and theory, technology, environment and professional practice. Through design projects, written research and technical investigation, you explore how architecture engages with social, cultural, political, environmental and material questions. Your work develops through a range of media, including analogue and digital drawing, physical and computational models, photography, animation, video, 1:1 installations and more.


The course puts a particular emphasis on the relationship between creative design practice, environmental and ethical responsibility, and building realisation. You develop design proposals alongside investigations into history, theory, material systems, embodied carbon, environmental performance, construction, fire and life safety, and professional practice. Throughout the course, design and research operate in dialogue, supporting you in developing an informed, critical and technically rigorous architectural practice.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Architecture and Built Environment

Degree

MArch

Study Level

Master's

Study Mode

On Campus

The Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) is a two-year professionally accredited course. Taught through the Bartlett’s studio culture, the course encourages experimentation, critical thinking and design innovation.


Across the two years, you spend more than half your time learning in studios, or design units. Design units are small groups led by practising architects, designers and academics, each with its own architectural agenda, methods and approach to design research. At the start of each academic year, units present their themes and methodologies before students select their preferred units. Many students remain in the same unit across both years, developing an individual design position through sustained studio-based research and experimentation.


Alongside your studio work, you study architectural history and theory, technology, environment and professional practice. Through design projects, written research and technical investigation, you explore how architecture engages with social, cultural, political, environmental and material questions. Your work develops through a range of media, including analogue and digital drawing, physical and computational models, photography, animation, video, 1:1 installations and more.


The course puts a particular emphasis on the relationship between creative design practice, environmental and ethical responsibility, and building realisation. You develop design proposals alongside investigations into history, theory, material systems, embodied carbon, environmental performance, construction, fire and life safety, and professional practice. Throughout the course, design and research operate in dialogue, supporting you in developing an informed, critical and technically rigorous architectural practice.

Admission Requirements

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A minimum of an upper second-class degree in architecture from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. It is also expected that all candidates have at least one year of professional work experience, taken after completing their undergraduate degree. If you are currently completing a UK undergraduate architecture programme, which is accredited by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) or the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and your programme contains a professional placement or placements lasting a minimum of 6 months, we will consider your application, providing you are averaging an upper second-class degree. Upon reviewing your application, we may ask you to submit a portfolio of your design work. Please do not send or upload your work unless it has been requested.

2 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
10,050 GBP
International
40,800 GBP

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