Architecture/Architecture (International) (RIBA Part 2) Master of

The aim of this module is to enable you to obtain maximum benefit from a period of practical experience and/or personal and professional development following completion of your RIBA Part 1 studies. This is commonly known as the ‘Year Out’. The year in practice forms part of a module that supports you in your professional practical experience through regular contact with your professional studies advisor, who is able to help you to maintain the professional body requirements for you to complete your Professional Experience Development Record (PEDR). In addition you are asked to report on a Case Study that you are engaged with in practice, prepare a Personal Evaluation and update and improve your professional portfolio. The module is not graded, but successful completion leads to progression onto the 2-Year full-time element of the course.

This module is intended to prepare you for the practical application of advanced building technology and issues of sustainability. Buildings are linked to the consumption of large quantities of energy and other resources and the production of large amounts of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. It is necessary to design, construct and operate them in a climate sensitive fashion in order to optimise performance and resource use. This module will examine how sustainable and advanced construction technology can begin to reduce the effects of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, illness and resource depletion through careful design.

This module will enable you to examine contemporary movements in architectural design, analysing principal characteristics, raisons d'etre and major components. This will provide an informed background against which your own theoretical approach to design can develop and mature. The module aims to enable you to explore in depth a design philosophy - both in theory and in practice - that is empathetic to your own ideals and aspirations. You will undertake an integrated Design Project, developing learning gained in other practical and theoretical modules in the course to produce an integrated solution with a high standard of design based on a sound theoretical approach.

The aim of this module is to enable you to enhance your understanding and knowledge of: the organisation and administration of architectural practice; the responsibilities and obligations of an architect to clients and other parties involved in the building design and construction process; collaboration, information management and Building Information Modelling (BIM); building control and planning legislation; the legal and contractual procedures involved in building procurement; estimating and cost control of the construction process; the personal and team management skills appropriate to architectural practice; and the responsibility of the architect towards the health and safety of those employed in the construction industry, the well-being of building users and the effect of building development upon society at large.

This module you will give you the opportunity to carry out a detailed survey and analytical study of an existing urban context and prepare strategic proposals for the further development and/or regeneration of the site in relationship to broader social, economic and environmental issues. You will then develop a design project at an appropriate scale for further exploration and resolution of a group of buildings and/or public spaces.

The module comprises the production of a 10,000 word dissertation on an architectural subject of your own choice. The study is self-directed, once you have negotiated and agreed a topic with the Module Tutor. Most research will be from secondary sources, but you are expected to pursue primary sources whenever the opportunity presents itself.

The aim of this module is to be a preliminary to the Design Thesis and involves the collection of all the background briefing and contextual information necessary from which to work. The range of investigative studies includes contextual and social investigation, site analysis; functional and managerial analysis; precedent and typological studies; consideration of technological and energy issues and any other topics specific to the project.

The aim of this module is for you to undertake a comprehensive architectural design project of your own choice but which must be agreed with the Module Tutor and must be at a level of complexity and depth of resolution comparable to that which pertains in architectural practice. Upon your own initiative you will select a location in a European Region, and develop a design proposal which is responsive and appropriate to the cultural and environmental context of your chosen location, whilst identifying and responding to the heritage and cultural traditions as evident in the established Urban fabric of Europe. As such your final design should assert an architectural narrative, explore building typology, satisfy predetermined user requirements, resolve spatial organisation, and be made manifest by considered deployment of appropriate technologies.

The aim of this module is for you to undertake a comprehensive architectural design project of your own choice but which must agree with the Module Leader and must be at a level of complexity and depth of resolution comparable to that which pertains in architectural practice. Upon your own initiative you will select a location in a non-European Region, and develop a design proposal which is responsive and appropriate to the cultural and environmental context of your chosen location, whilst identifying and responding to the challenges and pressures that exist in procuring architecture within an increasingly globalised economy. As such your final design should assert an architectural narrative, explore building typology, satisfy predetermined user requirements, resolve spatial organisation, and be made manifest by considered deployment of appropriate technologies.