BSc Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1) Programme Directors: Matthew Butcher, Mollie Claypool
Year 1 Design Directors Nat Chard, Carlos Jiménez Cenamor Year 1 Design Tutors Lucy Leonard, Ifigenia Liangi, Emma-Kate Matthews, Frederik Petersen, Eva Ravnborg, Gavin Robotham, Emmanouil Stavrakakis, Catrina Stewart, Umut Yamac, Nick Westby
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
Year 2 & 3 Design Tutors UG0 Murray Fraser, Justin C.K. Lau, Sara Shafiei UG1 Francesca Hughes, Gergely Kovács UG2 Damjan Iliev, Javier Ruiz Rodriguez UG3 Luke Olsen, Graeme Williamson UG4 Ana Monrabal-Cook, Luke Pearson UG5 Julia Backhaus, Pedro Font Alba, Martin Tang UG6 Christine Hawley, Paolo Zaide UG7 Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier UG8 Colin Herperger, Thomas Pearce UG9 Jessica In, Chee-Kit Lai UG10 Tamsin Hanke, Guan Lee UG11 James Hampton, Sofia Krimizi
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This programme concentrates on providing extensive general 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. In this latter module students from all schools work in groups of 10 to produce films for the final submission, which has now started to involve the Survey of London. The final building design project evolves in parallel to separate coursework in other modules – it finishes the year with a common springboard into Year 2. 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. Elsewhere in the year, students must demonstrate understanding of a selected theme in architectural history, as well as core skills in computing.