MPhil/PhD Architectural Space & Computation Programme Director: Dr Sean Hanna
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
Current Students Andre Afonso, Moritz Behrens, Deborah Do Rosario Benros, Tom Bolton, Giulio Brugnaro, Frosso (Efrosini) Charalambous, Blerta Dino, Ahmed Tarek (Zaki) Fouad, Francesca Froy, Paul Goodship, Evan Greenberg, Emma Gribble, Abril Herrera Chavez, Fani Kostourou, Petros Koutsolampros, KimonVincent Krenz, Stephen Law, Nazila Maghzian, Velina Mirincheva, Nurulhuda Mohammad Isa, Rosica Pachilova, Stamatios Psarras, Dimitrie Stefanescu, Markus Urban Graduating Students John Bingham-Hall, Pheereeya Boonchaiyapruek, Cauê Capillé, Athina Lazaridou, Frederik Weissenborn, Yao Shen
The Bartlett’s MPhil/PhD Architectural Space and Computation is associated with the world-renowned Space Syntax Laboratory, which offers an ideal intellectual environment to develop interdisciplinary research from an architectural perspective, seeking to advance knowledge by studying the relations between spatial patterns and social outcomes, and between architectural design knowledge and computation. The programme allows students to conduct a piece of independent research in one of two principal streams. In Space and Society in Buildings and Cities, students use space syntax theories and methods to study the effects of spatial design on aspects of social, organisational and economic performance of buildings and urban areas. In Architectural Computation, students apply technology to research into the built environment, bringing innovative computational analytical methods to the heart of the design process. Whilst the programme is intended primarily for students from an architectural or urban design background wishing to pursue a programme that involves empirical research, many of our students hold degrees from other disciplines, such as geography, philosophy, anthropology, urban history, crime science, physics or computer science. Students pursue independent research projects supervised by a principal and subsidiary supervisor, culminating in a doctoral thesis. Student topics are aligned to staff members’ research interests, which include media architecture and design interaction, architectural computation, urban form and society, workplace design and organisational behaviour, spatial narratives, space syntax and evidence-based design, urban design, spatial cultures and urban spatial history. Research supervision is complemented by a programme of fortnightly seminars throughout the academic year − some student-led, others led by leading experts from UCL and around the world. In their first year, students will commonly audit selected modules from the lab’s two postgraduate programmes: MSc/MRes Space Syntax or MSc/MRes Architectural Computation, benefiting from the rigorous training in theories and methods that these provide. The programme is also associated with the InnoChain European research network and the Engineering Doctorate in Virtual Environments, Imaging & Visualisation. Students on these programmes will typically take some of their taught modules jointly. Current Supervisors Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), Dr Jeff Bezemer (UCL Institute of Education), Dr Duncan Brumby (UCL Interaction Centre), Ava Fatah, Jorge Fiori (Development and Planning Unit), Professor Murray Fraser, Dr Sam Griffiths, Dr Sean Hanna, Dr Kayvan Karimi, Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein (Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering), Dr Paul Marshall (UCL Interaction Centre), Peter McLellan (Bartlett Real Estate Institute), Dr Anna Mavrogianni (Bartlett Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering), Professor Alan Penn, Dr Sophia Psarra, Dr Kerstin Sailer, Professor Bob Sheil, Dr Tasos Varoudis, Professor Laura Vaughan, Dr Katharine Willis (Plymouth University)
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