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MPhil Architecture and Urban Design (Projective Cities)
at Architectural Association School of Architecture

London, United Kingdom

  • Tuition Fee £ 44,826
  • Country Rank#155
  • Duration12 Months
  • Score

Program Overview

The MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (Projective Cities) is an 18-month, interdisciplinary research and design programme that examines multi-scalar questions arising at the intersection of architecture, urban design and planning. The programme is dedicated to systematic analysis, design experimentation, theoretical speculation and critical writing, all of which focus on the contemporary city. Student projects combine new design and traditional forms of research, while challenging existing disciplinary boundaries and contributing to emerging spatial design practice and knowledge. The programme recognises the need for multidisciplinary under-standing and design research training to meet the demands of contemporary architectural and urban practice.
 

Each cohort of Projective Cities examines a common theme as the starting point for individual research agendas. The current theme is the Architecture of Collective Living, and the ambition of this agenda is to investigate, by comparative analysis, the different organisational, formal, programmatic and material particularities that define it through a series of historic and contemporary case studies.
 

The programme seeks to rethink the informal and formal relations between subjects, spaces, structural and non-structural elements, objects and protocols of use and occupation.
 

It therefore aims to provoke discussion of how the urban can be understood through specific architecture and its design, and how its effect as an urban armature is not only of spatial importance, but is equally organised by larger political and social discourses.

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