Master of Architecture (Part 2 RIBA/ARB)

Mode of study: Full-time
Study location: AUB Campus
How to apply: Apply directly to us

Master of Architecture (Part 2 RIBA/ARB) course information

The Master of Architecture explores new approaches to architectural practice, through making, innovation and collaboration.

You’ll work alongside fellow makers, collaborators, and enablers who have come from different schools around the world; you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across the arts. The course philosophy has many connections and develops on from the four key issues identified in the BA (Hons) Architecture (Part 1 RIBA/ARB).

This course takes its approach from the context of the ‘shared studio-based arts university’ where all courses are making. This philosophy is applied throughout the taught units by emphasising the role of drawing, models and texts in the making of architecture; the things we make – to think about the things we make.

As a student you’ll be asked to develop projects with strong narratives commenting on current social, cultural and environmental issues. In each unit you’re encouraged to give architectural expression to your own personal views and visions, whilst aiming to produce tangible propositions, mindful of how they might be realised.

Studio culture

The studio is both professional and exploratory. This educational experience is grounded in a strong studio culture of making and thinking, supported by regular lectures by practitioners, seminars and reviews.

The studio generates an atmosphere in which open, critical and reflective practice supports exploration and risk-taking where we test, discuss and present ideas. We’re particularly focused in delivering studio-based and student-centred learning environment.

We offer shared facilities such as the workshop, fab-labs, the print room and the Drawing Studio.

Personal, professional and ecological development

The course will support your personal development towards a creative contribution to architecture and the wider world after graduation. The final Thesis Design year gives you the opportunity to develop your own research design project that integrates making and collaboration through an ecological narrative.

What are the options? What's at stake? Are there really options? How should we choose? At the centre of the investigation is the body: architectural, institutional, corporeal; and the landscape: ecological, contextual, natural and man-made.

The Master of Architecture course is for you if you're looking for something different and fresh in your route to becoming an architect in a changing world.

The urban density of AUB Campus has seen the insertion of a Drawing Studio by visiting professor Peter Cook. This RIBA award-winning building was opened by the late Dame Zaha Hadid in 2016.