Masters | MA Urban Design
Bill Erickson (Course Leader), Krystallia Kamvasinou, David Mathewson, Michael Neuman, Marion Roberts, David Seex, Louise Thomas Bill Erickson is a Principal Lecturer and architect with extensive experience in urban design. He has practiced in Australia, Italy and the UK and leads the MA Urban Design. David Mathewson is a Lecturer and architect with MAs in Housing and Urbanism (AA) and IPSD (Westminster). He has thirteen years experience in urban design and international planning consultancy.
MA Urban Design Students: Natalie Adubofour, Saina Ahmadnia Roudsari, Ahmed Awadelkarim, Elizabeth Awoyemi, Kinda Ayoub, Tom Buttrick, Simon Daly, Rohit Dhawle, Jignesh Dholakia, Obinna Edeh, Ikrame Essalih, John Greensted, Hagar Melamed, Rajendra Menaria, Jane Monk, Charlie Mulford,
THE URBAN DESIGN course at Westminster provides a coherent approach to issues that face our cities, combining structured academic study with live design projects, allowing students to develop practical skills, a theoretical understanding and an informed approach to sustainable urban development. It overlaps and incorporates elements of town planning, architecture, landscape design, urban regeneration, transportation and infrastructure planning drawing students from all these backgrounds. Cities are essential to modern life, they are the place where most people make their homes, but they are also the sites where our economic and social life evolve and where most resources are consumed. They evolve over time becoming a cultural asset reflecting values of the people who inhabit them, around which shared experiences revolve and daily life is shaped. This process is well understood in the European context, however in the global context the pace of change is both dramatic and accelerating, creating new challenges for city design and management.
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Patrick Newell, Daniel Ong, Cezar Petcu, Havan Pishdary, Adam Price, Nathan Rickard, Manuel Rivera Medina, Vihangi Shah, Todd Strehlow, Sanyukta Tapkeer, Roula Tello, Vishakha Tiwari, Ioana Toma, Zhenliang Wu
Drawing on the cultural and economic forces acting in the city, the course focuses on understanding and shaping the physical setting in which they take place. It considers how buildings, streets and urban spaces are combined to create vivid environments that can nurture daily life; provide efficient urban systems; and make memorable places we value. The work presented here is based on students dissertations. Most opt to prepare a written dissertation, in which they identify particular impacts on the design of cities and how, in the light of these, urban form can best be adapted to our current and future needs. The practice of urban design is emerging as a distinct profession and is underpinned by a growing knowledge base informed by research. These studies represent a critique of and contribution to that knowledge.