MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2)

Why choose this course?During this degree you’ll think and make, and develop the technical and critical skills required to be both nimble and empowered to act in today’s diverse architectural culture. The course features a diverse range of design approaches rooted in a common ethos, and often involving ‘live-build’ projects, recently for the Barbican in London and Kunstmuseum, Bonn. You’ll study in our exceptional, Haworth Tompkins-designed workshops, which are open for creative exploration and offer opportunities to collaborate on projects and share ideas.During this two-year degree, you’ll develop as an architectural designer and thinker and progress to engaging in architectural practice as an independent and reflective practitioner. You’ll be expected to build on the knowledge, understanding and skill acquired during your first degree and a recommended initial period of work-based learning. The emphasis of this course is therefore to deepen and consolidate existing learning and skill from years 1 to 3, rather than to introduce a wide range of new subject material. The design studio aspect of the course is taught through studio units. Students have the opportunity to enter a ballot for the unit of their choice at the beginning of each academic year. The subject focus of the units varies from year to year.Teaching and assessmentAssessment typically comprises exams (eg test or exam), practical (eg presentations, performance) and coursework (eg essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation). The approximate percentage for how you will be assessed on this course is as follows, though depends to some extent on the optional modules you choose.After you graduateGraduates from this degree succeed in architectural careers in professional practice, architecture teaching and associated construction and creative industries; they are actively sought by prominent architectural practices in London, the UK and abroad.