MArch Urban Design (B-Pro) Programme Director: Mark Smout
Research Clusters RC11 Sabine Storp, Patrick Weber RC12 Usman Haque, Adam Greenfield RC14 Roberto Botazzi, Kostas Grigoriadis
RC18 Enriqueta Llabres, Zachary Fluker Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professors Dan Hill, Joseph Grima
The MArch Urban Design (UD) is a 12-month studio-based programme that brings together a new generation of designers and thinkers from across the world. It is established to provide a rich and challenging environment for long-term research into the challenges of global urbanisation and the creative potential of speculative design. It is part of B-Pro, the umbrella structure for post-professional Masters programmes at The Bartlett School of Architecture, directed by Professor Frédéric Migayrou. Urban design is a particular form of enquiry into the nature of the city, its form and function. It seeks to understand the city as a place of human coexistence and to devise strategies and projects to guide its future development and evolution. Throughout the UD course, students are encouraged to innovate and explore new ideas in design and theory. They are introduced to design skills and techniques, critical enquiry and related technologies. They use this experience to shape polemic interventions, and through the design portfolio and thesis, develop speculative projects on a variety of scales. Students are encouraged to explore and understand their host city, London, whilst in residence, a city that arguably is one of the richest and most diverse in the world.
Image: ‘The Incomplete City’ A week-long design workshop taught by the Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professors for 2016, Dan Hill and Joseph Grima, with Marco Ferrari 303
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
RC16 / Urban Morphogenesis Lab Claudia Pasquero, Maj Plemenitas