MA ARCHITECTURE AND PRACTICE
Programme Leader: Roland Karthaus
The overall objective of the module is to enable students to work with complex, spatial and contextual design tasks that are developed through a critical approach to theoretical positions about architecture. Specific design and theoretical agendas formulated within the studio aim to provide a choice of architectural itineraries to support and facilitate students in this process through an explorative approach to design. In 2015 students will engage with the Developers of Silvertown in London’s Docklands to shadow, critique and redefine the emerging economic and spatial propositions for the site and its new population. Architecture is the main topic of study, whilst related topics such as landscape, fine art, drawing, photography and model making as modes of representation, sculpture, social and environmental contexts, performance and qualities of materials are studied in support of the overall topic. Within this typical framework for the study of architecture, there is a particular emphasis on the nature of materials and the physical act of making buildings through a variety of scales, from the specific detail to the territories in which buildings are constructed. Architectural and related urban, social and philosophical theories are examined as sources from which to develop critically contextualised positions for the practice of architecture.
top: Docklands, site area.