The University of Sheffield School of Architecture
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 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 Architecture (MALA). The recently established Collaborative Practice route offers students the opportunity to integrate their MArch studies with continued experience in architectural practice. 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 and conservation. 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, grass roots organisations and arts programmes. Projects evolve that are ambitious, innovative and respond to the complexity of real-life conditions. This year, studios have investigated situations and scenarios based along future timelines, providing opportunities to test alternative visions for an uncertain societal and climatic world. Fifth and sixth year students work together in design studios, to explore these current challenges and future 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 design enquiry 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 or joint thesis projects, exploring research questions through the design of complex buildings. Students are encouraged to be canny, ambitious, and enterprising so that they can not only 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. Director of MArch Leo Care Co-director of MArch Jo Lintonbon Director of Masters in Architecture + Landscape Architecture Howard Evans Studio Leaders Simon Baker Carolyn Butterworth Leo Care Bryan Davies Mark Emms Howard Evans Daniel Jary Jo Lintonbon John Sampson Satwinder Samra SSoA Matthew Bradshaw Ranald Lawrence Aidan Hoggard Sofie Pelsmakers Fionn Stevenson Karim Hadjri Cith Skelcher Krzysztof Nawratek Ian Hicklin Rachel Cruise Florian Kossak Mark Meagher Simon Chadwick
Visiting Tutors Eleana Brough, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects Sarah Ernst, Architype Edmund Harrison-Gray, Hawkins/Brown Ellen Page Darren Robinson Robert Blundell Dr Frances Babbage, School of English, University of Sheffield Martin Lydon, Haworth Tompkins Architects Andrew Lees, Architect Lukas Barry Simon Harrison Simon Branson, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Manchester Collaborators Carmody Groarke Journeyman Design AHMM Penoyre and Prasad Sheffield Hallam University Hawkins Brown Cullinan Studio Manchester Metropolitan University BDP Bauman Lyons AA Projects Sheffield City Council Assemble Spode Works
Coventry City of Culture Bid Leeds University Derby Silk Mill Better Barnsley Sheffield City Council West Lindsey Council Architype Diocese of Chesterfield The Glass-House The Open University Ingle Gym Elsecar Heritage Riailway Media Lab Prado Yorkshire Art Space Ebbsfleet Development Corporation Urbed University of the Arts, London Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District ArcHeritage Friends of Sheffield Castle Sheffield Chamber of Commerce Israac Heeley City Farm Yorkshire Sculpture Park