This course explores architecture that responds to the complex and changing context of architecture and urbanism, and the transformations taking place in society. The course team of academics, historians, practitioners, advisors, artists and researchers, is committed to understanding and documenting our existing built heritage, while proposing imaginative and alternative futures in both the urban and rural context that are socially and ecologicaly responsible.
Urban investigations and an awareness of the shifting conditions of the contemporary city with its differing social structures, geography,culture, climate, economics, energy consumption, technologies and urban patterns, will form the basis of the MArch studio research.