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MArch Course.
MArch Architecture.
Course Leader:
Marisela Mendoza Ramos
The MArch in Architecture course provides students with a creative exploration of architectural typologies, critical understanding of contemporary themes, develop their environmental consciousness and to gain professional skills that will allow them to face the challenges of the twenty-first century. The global awareness of humanity’s impact on the environment requires a change to the way human activities are performed in all societies. In architecture, the importance of the users’ wellbeing, the re-use of existing buildings, the architect’s ethical responsibilities and the use of technological innovations to address climatic and environmental circumstances have increased the contextual complexity in which architects exercise their careers. To respond to these challenges, architects require to cultivate a deeper understanding and knowledge of socio-cultural, historical, environmental, and professional issues, to design architecture that can become a positive force of change in the world.
In the MArch course, we respond to these themes through two main areas that shape the programme’s ethos: Architectural Practice and Architecture & Wellbeing.
Architectural Practice:
The MArch in Architecture stresses the importance of practice, and students are encouraged to develop a deeper critical position based on a studio-centred research environment responding to complex contexts such as socio-economic inequality and the climatic emergency. The course encourages students to adopt an architectural position that questions the production of new, diverse and inclusive architectural typologies and spaces
Architectural Wellbeing:
The course integrates wellbeing as a core theme in our pedagogic endeavours and collaborative approach between staff and students. In the MArch, students systematically explore through research a personalised design methodology in response to the current and future challenges the discipline faces globally, nationally, and locally.
Ethos:
This MArch facilitates the fulfilment of the course’s ethos and produced Part 2 MArch graduates with a design ethos that enables them to address the current complexities of the world through a professional and sensible approach to architectural design.
More Info.
For more information on the MArch course, head to the NTU website here.
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