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History and Critical Thinking in Architecture MA
at Architectural Association School of Architecture

London, United Kingdom

  • Tuition Fee £ 26,896
  • Country Rank#155
  • Duration12 Months
  • Score

Program Overview

The MA History and Critical Thinking (HCT) programme offers a unique postgraduate platform for theoretical and critical reflection on contemporaneity through systematic enquiry into history. The programme’s ambition is to connect current debates and projects with a wider milieu, and to interpret the contemporary from a historical, critical and cross-disciplinary point of view.
 

The concern with history involves a reconfiguration of the way the architectural and the complex politics of time interconnect. At stake within the actual writing of history is a political engagement with the philosophical, social, material and environmental exigencies of the present. While theoretical reflection on the historical provides resources for the analysis of contemporary architectural thinking, specific histories remain valid sites of investigation. Courses within the programme reconsider histories of the discipline, conventions of representation and norms of use, reflect on the current state and challenges of architectural historiography and recount the links between the practices of architecture and history writing.
 

Writing is a common concern throughout the programme, and is considered as a transformative, demonstrative and cognitive process. Different modes of writing are explored along-side a consideration of drawings, photographs, film and literature, in analysis of the connections between the textual, the visual and the graphic. The aim is to explore, adopt and adapt elements of these disciplines and practices in one’s own writing, while preserving one’s own voice.
 

The programme’s ambition is three-fold: to provide a set of resources to examine architectural histories and the ways in which social, political, economic and institutional structures shape particular accounts of the built environment; to develop a historical and critical understanding of the contemporary and open new possibilities for thought and inquiry; and to investigate technologies of research, production and distribution of knowledge in relation to practices and public cultures in architecture, and in the context of current and emerging social and geopolitical pressures.
 

Graduates of the programme gain well-developed historical and theoretical understanding of conceptual and practical issues in architecture, allowing them to pursue doctoral studies, to reorient their professional development into other fields such as museum and gallery work or journalism, or to become involved in research and teaching in the field of architecture.

Cost Of Studying At Architectural Association School of Architecture

Interest rates as low as 8.9% *

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

Loans Sanctioned