MArch in Architecture The MArch (RIBA Part 2) course at SSoA is one of the most innovative and influential in the country. It prepares students to be enterprising, employable and to use their skills to the benefit of people’s lives. At the heart of the course is a range of specialist design studios and our innovative ‘live projects’ programme, offering between them excellent opportunities for students to develop graduate-level research by design. Students also have the opportunity to specialise further by taking a dual accredited MArch course with Town and Regional Planning (MArch/TRP) or with Landscape (MALA). Modules in humanities, management and technology offer students the opportunity to enhance their design projects and wider learning through focused research, academic writing and critical reflection. Further opportunities to explore specialist lines of enquiry are offered by the fifth year option modules that focus on aspects of urban design, digital design, sustainability, conservation and architectural education. The SSoA MArch is shaped by its emphasis on collaboration, social engagement and ‘liveness’. This begins each year with live projects and continues in design studios that collaborate with community partners including local councils, grassroots organisations and arts programmes. Projects evolve that are ambitious, innovative and respond to the complexity of real-life conditions. This year, through ‘This Changes Everything’, a cross-studio programme of seminars, lectures and student presentations, projects have evolved with a particular emphasis upon the architect’s role in tackling climate change on a local, regional and global scale. Fifth and sixth year students work together in design studios, alongside specialist masters students, to explore current challenges and opportunities in architecture. Students are encouraged to develop a critical approach to the production of architecture in contemporary society. The design studios offer students the freedom to experiment and develop their own lines of enquiry while being supported by tutors who offer excellent specialist research and practice experience. The fifth year offers students the chance to develop rigorous research by design skills. The iterative process of design is valued, as well as the outcomes, and students are encouraged to develop their individual interests, ways of working and attitude towards architecture and the role of the architect. Sixth year students then develop individual thesis projects, exploring research questions through the design of complex buildings. Students are encouraged to be canny, ambitious, and enterprising so not only can they negotiate and respond to the challenges of our time, but also lead on what ‘Future Practice’ might be. A practice that can listen, negotiate and advocate clients’ and users’ needs in order to produce architecture of excellence.
MArch + MArch/TRP Director Carolyn Butterworth MALA Director Howard Evans Co-director Leo Care Studio Activators in Place Leo Care Rob Thompson Studio BreathABLE Lucy Plumridge Lucy Jones Studio Future Pasts Mark Emms Jo Lintonbon John Paul Walker Studio Future Works Renata Tyszczuk Julia Udall Studio Global Praxis Teresa Hoskyns Beatrice De Carli
Studio in Residence Carolyn Butterworth Ellen Page Studio Intergenerational Architecture Satwinder Samra Ronan Watts Studio Interactive Urban Skins Aidan Hoggard Bryan Davies Studio Landscape + Urbanism Howard Evans John Sampson Studio (Re)-Activist Architecture Simon Baker Helen Stratford Visitors Andrew Groarke Carole Latham Warren McFadden Gary Thomason Rachel Haynes Jim Reed Joanna Coleman Paul Monaghan Greg Penoyre Sam Vardy Roger Hawkins
Daniel Tassell & Martin Lydon Neil Stacey David Cash Richard Holland Ben Gibson & Matt Thornley Dan Wiltshire Sam Brougham Lorenza Casini Sam Brown Kristien Ring Hannah Smart-Pearce Cesare Peeren Raf Orlowski Peter Merrett Philip Graham Within The School Irena Bauman Simon Chadwick Ian Hicklin Nishat Awan Florian Kossak Rosie Parnell Fionn Stevenson Flora Samuel Stephen Walker Laurence Pattacini Sarah Wigglesworth Dan Jary Rosie Parnell George Lovett Adam Park