BSc Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1) Programme Directors: Matthew Butcher, Mollie Claypool, Sara Shafiei (acting)
Year 1 Director Frosso Pimenides Year 1 Design Associates Carlos Jiménez Cenamor, Gavin Robotham, Emmanouil Stavrakakis
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
Year 1 Tutors Joel Cady, Fenella Coldridge, Stefan Lengen, Ifigeneia Liangi, Rebecca Loewen, Thandi Loewenson, Emma-Kate Matthews, Brian O'Reilly, Eva Ravnborg, Charlotte Reynolds, Nick Westby, Umut Yamac Year 2 & 3 Design Tutors UG0 Murray Fraser (on sabbatical), Tamsin Hanke, Sara Shafiei UG1 Jon Lopez, Hikaru Nissanke UG2 Soomeen Hahm, Aleksandrina Rizova UG3 Luke Olsen, Graeme Williamson UG4 Ana Monrabal-Cook, Luke Pearson UG5 Julia Backhaus, Martin Tang UG6 Tim Norman, Paolo Zaide UG7 Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier UG8 Colin Herperger, Thomas Pearce UG9 Jessica In, Chee-Kit Lai UG10 Guan Lee, Arthur Mamou-Mani UG11 Kostas Grigoriadis, Sofia Krimizi UG12 Johan Hybschmann, Matthew Springett
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This programme concentrates on providing extensive knowledge and understanding about what architecture is as a subject, a discipline and a practice, with a distinct emphasis on architectural design through research-based education. It aims to establish the student’s core knowledge, critical ability and skills through drawing and making (both analogue and digital), technology (including environmental design, sustainability and computation), history and theory and professional studies. The Year 1 cohort is organised as a single group, and a vertical unit system begins in Year 2. A core ethos of the entire BSc programme is that students relate their design projects to all other taught modules on an incremental basis. This culminates in Year 3, where design and technology are developed in synthesis, augmented by complementary self-selected themes in history and theory and professional studies. Year 1 Year 1 is a ‘contextual’ year where core architectural expertise and knowledge around cities, buildings and practice is developed through diverse experimentation and exploration, including drawing, making, writing and film. The ‘History of Cities and their Architecture’ module is shared with fellow Bartlett BSc students of Planning, and the ‘Making Cities’ module is shared with fellow Bartlett BSc students of Planning, and Construction and Project Management. The final building design project evolves in parallel to separate coursework in other modules, and it finishes the year with a common springboard into Year 2. This year, we had thirteen Units in the undergraduate programme with diverse themes and agendas that included explorations into: the relationship between architecture and landscape; digital and computational design methodologies; and the role of narrative in architecture. Year 2 Year 2 centres on ‘diversity’, which is exemplified by the unit system in design as well as seminar groups in history and theory. Although distinct from one another, units deliver a common set of principles that include: spatial organisation, communication, culture, critique, context, and environmental and social impact. In tandem with the final building design project, the technology module requires strategic and detailed technical investigations, including how fragments of the project could be built. This presents a tactile introduction to architectural design, its relationship to construction techniques and associated disciplines, and the challenge of making information for making buildings. Over the course of the year, students must demonstrate understanding of a selected theme in architectural history, as well as core skills in computing.