Architecture with Urban Planning - ARB/RIBA Part 2 MArch

Following a similar pattern to level 3, the year is structured around a major integrated design project sited within an urban context. Following a series of introductory Urban and Planning Studies investigating the urban imagination, the city, and design, you will work within small, elective tutorial groups exploring alternative ideas for your integrated design proposal. The project is developed in the second semester to an appropriate level of technical and programmatic resolution.

In parallel with the sketched, drawn and modelled exploration of ideas, you will compile an integrated design report which places the work within an intellectual context, draws out the central ideas and explains their detailed resolution.

Alongside the integrated design project you will develop a body of work within a separate “Design Research Unit”: a seminar group exploring themes within architectural theory such as typology, representation, materiality and landscape. The DRUs are aligned to and run by the level 5 thematic studios. You will have the opportunity to make physical experiments known as “thinking machines” and write accompanying texts which define and contextualise yourideas.

• A410001: Urban Theory Analysis and Strategy
• AR40003: Architectural Humanities
• AR40007: Integrated Architectural Design 4

You will have the opportunity to follow this alternative pathway completing three modules in urban planning. In parallel you will undertake an independent design-led research project (60 credits) which will build on your emerging specialist knowledge and understanding in both disciplines. As in the core MArch programme, design work will be developed within an Architecture and Planning thematic studio, and contextualized and recorded through an accompanying text. Successful completion leads to a jointly accredited award in Architecture and Planning disciplines.

• AR50007: Design-led research project
• UP51005 - Property Development Processes
• UP51007 - Statutory Planning
• UP52003 - Sustainability in Contemporary Cities

• Studio seminars and one-to-one tutorials
• Lectures and specialist workshops
• Study visits

• Primarily through design projects which draw together architectural and urban planning skills
• Reports /essays which examine issues of architectural and urban design history and theory, contemporary management, practice and law.