Overview
Started in 1981, the MA Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture is the UK's longest established and best known master's course in the historical, theoretical and critical interpretation of architecture, cities, urban spaces, creative practices and of their representations.
Over the past 30 years the course has been continually developed and revised, prioritising the exploration of new and existing methodologies and critical theories as they might be applied to the study of architecture and cities. Rather than dealing with architecture exclusively through the work of famous individuals, landmark buildings, stylistic classification or normative categories, the course locates architecture within social, ideological, creative, political, theoretical and urban processes. In doing so, it explores the boundaries of what might be regarded as legitimate architectural objects of study, and the interpretations that might be made of them.
The student cohort of 15-18 individuals comprises a dynamic mix of UK, EU and international participants from all parts of the world.
The course also benefits greatly from being situated within an extensive graduate and research environment, including the presence of a very large cohort of PhD students in the MPhil/PhD Architectural History and Theory and MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programmes, as well as a similarly extensive range of faculty members with interests in architectural history and theory. The latter include, among others, Dr Jan Birksted, Professor Iain Borden, Dr Ben Campkin, Professor Adrian Forty, Professor Murray Fraser, Professor Jonathan Hill, Professor Frédéric Migayrou, Dr Barbara Penner, Dr Peg Rawes, Professor Jane Rendell and Dr Tania Sengupta. Students on the MA Architectural History are thus immersed in one of the world's largest and most innovative centres for architectural history and theory, and are able to engage in innumerable seminars, research presentations and other events. See here for more information on the full range of programmes, research, news and events connected with architectural history & theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Located in the centre of London, MA Architectural History students also benefit from a huge range of research, study and personal opportunities, from the dynamism of the city itself as one of the foremost global centres of architectural and urban culture, to the use of extensive libraries and other research facilities, to the opportunity to enjoy innumerable public exhibitions, conferences, lectures, debates, film screening and other events.
Programme Objectives
The course is intended for architects who have already qualified or are in the process of qualification, and also for graduates of other disciplines such as art history, history, geography or anthropology who wish to develop a specialist knowledge of architectural history or acquire a foundation for research in this area.
The main focus of the course is on architecture and cities of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, although occasional reference is also made to a wider range of historical material. Buildings, texts, architects, films, drawings, maps, plans, paintings and other representations and creative practices are all critically interpreted.
The main teaching mode is the seminar, supplemented by lectures from internal staff and visitors, as well as building and gallery visits in London and further afield, video and film screenings, group working and one-to-one tutorials.
The Bartlett's Architectural History & Theory team also organises public lectures by distinguished visiting speakers, focusing on the intersection of historical and critical theory with different kinds of architectural practice, as well as a PhD seminars and conferences on advanced architectural historical and critical methods.
The MA Architectural History provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, in terms of both the objects of study examined and the various methodologies which can be used to interpret architecture and disseminate work in the field. The modules combine advanced-level seminars and other structured teaching events with innovative student-led work. The final report (dissertation) provides students with an opportunity to conduct their own original research into a specific subject of their own choosing.
Contact details:
Programme Director, Professor Adrian Forty, send an email
Programme Administrator, send an email
Structure
MA Architectural History students must complete and pass 180 credits, made up of 120 credits of approved taught modules, and 60 credits of the Architectural History Report with Oral Examination. The 120 credits of approved taught modules must contain at least 90 credits from the course curriculum - a further 30 credits may be chosen from other UCL graduate programmes, on condition that the student has the agreement of both the course director, and the co-ordinator of the module the student wishes to take.
Compulsory Modules
BENVGAH5 Critical Methodologies of
Architectural History
Credits: 30
Assessment: Coursework
Term 1
BENVGAH3
Research and Dissemination of Architectural History
Credits: 30
Assessment: Coursework
Term 1
Optional Modules
BENVGAH1
Architecture in 19th-and 20th-Century Britain
Credits: 30
Assessment: Coursework
Term 2
BENVGAH2 Representations of Cities
Credits: 30
Assessment: Coursework
Term 2
BENVGAH4
Theorising Practices: Architecture, Art and Urbanism
Credits: 30
Assessment: Coursework
Term 2
Please note, only two optional modules are normally offered in any one academic year. Prospective students particularly wishing to study one specific option module should discuss with the course director in advance the likely availability of that module for their intended year of study.
Report
BENVGBE2
Architectural History Report with Oral Examination
Credits: 60
Assessment: Report (dissertation) + short Oral Examination
Term 3 and summer vacation
Content
BENVGAH5 Critical Methodologies of Architectural History reviews the range of methods and approaches open to the architectural historian, critic and theorist, as well as the traditions from which each derives, and the controversies around them. Through a weekly seminar, students read and discuss works by a variety of architectural historians (e.g. Çelik, Colomina, Vidler and Wölfflin) and texts by authors including Barthes, Freud and Hegel on the theory of history and aesthetics. They also consider issues such as gender, semiology, psychoanalysis, theories of technology, phenomenology and postcolonialism in relation to architectural history.
BENVGAH3 Research and
Dissemination of Architectural History complements the more
theoretical and historical modules of the MA Architectural History programme by
examining some of the more practical aspects of research, development and
application. The module investigates a variety of ways of working with, researching
and communicating architectural history in order to allow different kinds of
information, interpretations and audiences to be addressed. A series of weekly
lectures and assignments explores alternative methods of researching (archives,
photographs and imagery, oral history, internet and digital sources) and
communicating (teaching courses, journalism, exhibitions, policy, radio and
media broadcasting).
BENVGAH1 Architecture in 19th- and 20th-Century Britain examines a range of built work in London and Oxford, and asks what kinds of historical and critical judgements can be developed from encounters with buildings. Works studied in any one year might include such projects as Barry's Reform Club, Tecton's Finsbury Health Centre and Jacobsen's St Catherine’s College Oxford, for example. Students gain a specific knowledge of these particular buildings and of the wider historical context in which they have been produced and interpreted. Students also gain greater awareness of the challenges and opportunities presented to architectural history by encounters with the built fabric, as distinct from other available forms of evidence.
BENVGAH2 Representations of Cities reviews the variety of ways in
which cities have been conceptualised in recent urban and cultural theory. It
introduces how the city can be understood as a set of differing cultural
experiences: experiences of time, space, social identity, artistic
interventions etc. Methodologically, the module introduces some of the main
architectural and critical theories - such as the work of Baudrillard,
Benjamin, de Certeau, Debord, Deleuze, Derrida, Habermas, Le Corbusier,
Lefebvre, Rossi, Simmel and Tschumi - relating to the experience of the city.
In particular, the category of social space is introduced as an important
concept which mediates between different disciplines, and links thinkers who
have considered the intersection of buildings, cities and people.
BENVGAH4 Theorising Practices: Architecture, Art and Urbanism examines critical architectural and creative practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, it explores the relationship between the different practices of architecture, art and urbanism, the relationship between critical theories from an interdisciplinary perspective, and the relationship between practice and theory. A wide range of practices and projects are investigated, both contemporary and historical, from architecture to landscape, and from performance art to urban design.
BENVGBE2 Architectural History Report with Oral Examination requires students following the MA Architectural History to submit a 10,000-word report (dissertation) on a subject agreed with the teaching staff. Students choose a subject lying within the scope of the syllabus, making use of the techniques and methods taught in the course. Examples of recent reports include:
- Architecture and the Ear: the Aural Experience of Travelling on the London Underground
- Italy and Albania: Architectural Encounters in the Fascist Age, 1925-1944
- The Ladies' Gallery: Life and Death of a Gendered Space in the House of Commons
- Line, Text, Silence and Scale: Reading the Raven Maps of Londonderry, 1622
- Ziggurats for Bureaucrats: Sir Leslie Martin's 1965 Whitehall Plan
- Is There Such a Thing as the Modern Detail?
- Szczecin: Formation of a New Identity after World War II
A full list of reports by all students on the MA Architectural History can be found here.
Dissertations
The following are all of the research dissertations, also known as 'reports', produced by students on the MA Architectural History programme (formerly MSc Architecture: History of Modern Architecture and MSc Built Environment: Architectural History) since 1982. Those marked with * were commended as being outstanding.
All of these dissertations are available for consultation in the UCL Library.
2012
Ana Baeza
* Performing Whiteness: The Imperfect Case of Chinese-American
Cultural Rebirth in San Francisco Chinatown, 1906-1920s
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Lucy Dunn
Truth and Fiction: the Barbican and Post-modernism
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Reenie Elliott
* Berlin Observation Towers: the Collapse of Power and Vision
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Jenine Hudson
Imaging the King's Cross Gasometers, 1988-2012
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Rebecca Lane
* Constructs of Home and Identity in Public Policy and the
Psychic Realities of a Long-term Homeless Hostel
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Tatjana Leboff
* The Geographies of the Soho Prostitute: Locale, Gender and Mobility
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Runa Matthiesen
* The Use and Abuse of Heritage in Brandscaping: Place-making
of Carlsberg's Our City Townscape in Copenhagen
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Maksymilian Fus Mickiewicz
Copeland Industrial Park: Culture, Community and Urban
Change
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Adam Nemeth
Architecture, Urban Planning and State Power in the late
Eighteenth Century Habsburg Monarchy: the Case of Pest
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Dafni Papaemmanouil
The Image of the Parthenon: an Exploration of its Various
Uses
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Isabelle Priest
* Coming Clean: In Search of Le Corbusier's Cleaners in his
Parisian Domestic Architecture, 1922-1934
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Claudia Rath
Food in Kitchen Representations: Good Housekeeping Magazine
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Cate St.Hill
* Big Jim in Runcorn: Urban Memory and the Demolished
Southgate Estate
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Yuki Sumner
Angels and Demons of History: the Architects of Air
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Freya Wigzell
* Pleasure's Follies
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2011
Antonio Desiderio
Branding Surface: an Investigation of
Branded Space and Architecture
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Beatrice Galilee
The Anxious Space
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John Jervis
Prophesying Indeterminacy: John Weeks and
the Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre
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Dervla Macmanus
* Staircases: an Exploration of their
Symbolic Meaning
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Jessica Northend
* Building Theory: the New Left Review and the treatment of the built environment
1960-2011
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Yeva Sargsyan
Past for the Present or Present for the
Past? The role of historic architecture in
contemporary culture
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Manuel López Segura
* 'There
is one difficulty that I see and
that is that you think in English'. Exchanges between Britain and Italy
through the pages of Casabella and the Architectural Review on the
occasion of the Neo-liberty debate
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Nigel Simpkins
Performance, representation and the body in
dance-architectures of Frederic Flamand
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Elizabeth Sutherland
A Trauma Telescoped: Dachau Concentration
Camp Memorial Site
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Amy Thomas
* 'Mart of the World': an architectural and
geographical history of the London Stock Exchange
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Sriwan Tianpongsa
'Moving Interior': Tracing
Meaning and Memory of Panelled Rooms
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2010
Maria
Cabrera Vergara
The 21st Century Church; 1990-2010:'Constructing'
a new concept of sacred architecture
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Cathy
Clark
The Cast Iron Bandstand: a
Mass-Produced Object with Humanity
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Gabriela
García de Cortazar
* Architecture and 'the Public'; between
discourses in journals, buildings in London and possibilities opened from the'50s
until today
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Mirian
Delaney
* Line, Text, Silence and Scale: Reading
the Raven Maps of Londonderry, 1622
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Teresa
Fankhänel
Visual Topoi and Townscapes. Dresden's
Image Production between 1949 and 1989
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Natasha
Ghani
The Greek Orthodox Church of Saint
Panteleimon: Geometric Tensions during the Construction Process
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Genti
Gjikola
Italy and Albania: Architectural
Encounters in the Fascist Age, 1925-1944
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Danielle
Hewitt
Limits, Finality and Excess: Considering
Material and Temporal Transgression in the Post Industrial Landscape at
Holbeck, Leeds
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Mika
Larrison
The Chain goes Local
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Claudio
Leoni
* 'Topography of Terror', about a site
in Berlin, a way of remembrance and a project by Peter Zumthor
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Kieran
Mahon
Tracing the Quiet Anarchy: 20th
century British anarchism, the built environmnt and Colin Ward.
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Guiomar
Martin Domínguez
* 'Dreaming the Beauty of the Unusual':
Back and Forth between Reggio Emilia's Pedagogy and Architecture
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Nathan
Moore
* Diagrams of Control: Architecture,
Law and Power
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Catalina
Mejia Moreno
(writing) architecture: 5 encounters,
1 proposal
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Sophie
Read
* An Architectural Lecture: Le
Corbusier at the AA (1947)
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Jimena
Hogrebe Rodriguez
Context's Context. The use of the
word'context' in Western European architecture, 1950-2010
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Fadi
Sultagi
The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra: An
Experience of its Missing Layer
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Karolina
Szynalska
* Sam Scorer. A lesser known architect
of the twentieth century
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Gerlinde
Verhaeghe
Carrefour de l'Europe Brussels: an
Investigation into the Urban Void
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2009
Wesley Aelbrecht
* Architecture and Ethnography in the
Slums of Lisbon: a Study of Participation in the Films of Pedro Costa,
1997-2006
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Kristina Desman
Back in Europe. Exhibitions of
Slovenian Architecture Abroad 2004-2009
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Amy Frearson
Mediating Robin Hood, A Study of
Robin Hood Gardens in Media Discourse
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Madeleine Helmer
A Walk in the Garden: Gertrude Jekyll's
Munstead Wood
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Justin Smith
* Sundays in October: Texas Prison
Rodeo and Huntsville Prison Stadium. A Monograph of Power
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Susannah Stopford
'The
Uncanny' Effect: Paris, 1919 and the Photographic Work of Eugène Atget
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2008
Amber Burrow-Goldhahn
* Spaces of Chernobyl: Emptiness and
Fullness, Absence and Presence
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Nadia Carnovale
The Development of Social Housing
Projects in Post War Europe
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Ros Croker
The Regeneration Game: Place-making and
Community at Barrier Point, East London
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Sandra Kreidel
* Concept and Experience: Tate Modern. An
essay on the intersection of orders in architecture
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Emma Jones
* The Ladies' Gallery: life and death
of a gendered space in the House of Commons
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Torsten Lange
* Spaces for Critique: Tracing Public
Debate in Architectural Magazines in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s
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Janna Lipsky
In the Context of Modernism: Paul
Zucker and the Rhythm of Space
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Louis Moreno
* The Architecture of Human Capital: a
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Contemporary School Buildings with
Special Reference to Building Schools for the Future
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Nisreen Moustafa
Essence of the Alhambra. A
Phenomenological Account of the Hasrid Palaces Through the Lens of Twelfth
Century Andalucian Sislamic Philosophy
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Piangor Pattayakorn
Tracing Domestic Convenience
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Gurmeet Sian
* Caste/d Space. A Reinterpretation of
the Movement and Architecture of Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, India
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Alex Tait
Walking in the Sentimental City of
Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz
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Jason Vir
The Geffrye Museum: constructing the
past for the present
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2007
C. Choi
Recovering History: Philip Morton
Shand and the Mission of Modernism
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J. Hoffman
Revision of the City: Boston's
Lessons in Urban Redevelopment from Top-Down to Bottom-up, 1950-Present
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S. Holguin-Veras
On the Under-Bridge
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W. Lee
* Lives of the Dead: Thoughts on Bodies
in Spaces of Transition from Life to Death, Observing Smithfield Market and St
Bartholomew's Hospital in London
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V. Oikonomopoulos
Eugenics in the House. Modernism,
Architecture and Eugenics and the production of Kensal House in the UK during
the interwar period
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Jacob Paskins
* Architecture and the ear: the aural
experience of travelling on the London Underground
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P. Whitehouse
Paris, Montparnasse (an irreducibly
social photograph)
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2006
G.L. Amadei
Metropolis versus Necropolis. Polarity
in the relationship between the city and the cemetery in history
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A. Antoniou
Innovative Primary Health and
Community Care Models in Britain since 1980
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R. Atkinson
Identity and the Experience of Public
Space. The Bishopsgate-Wormwood Street Walkway
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T. Berstrand
* Splitting and Red House: Two Homes Set Apart
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B. Callsen
Home-making - architects, users and
the'prefab'
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K. Charalampopoulou
* Description - Realism - Detail in architectural historical writing
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C.R. Grenci
Is there such a thing as the Modern
Detail?
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E. Harfouche
Rhythms and the Interstice. Negotiations
of History and Memories through Beirut's Central Square
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Anne Hultzsch
* Looking Through Words. On visual
perception mediated through Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England and other
writings
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Rebecca Litchfield
* Invisible Cities: New York, Fiction
and Alternative Cartographies
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R. Maloney
Unknown Spaces. Covering the universe
with drawings we've lived
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E. Meade
The Last Rites of St Peters Seminary,
Cardross, and the Dynamics of Dereliction
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C. Rother
Szczecin - Formation of a new
identity in a city due to territorial changes after the second world war
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S. Tutsch
* Re-charging the Void: Some notes on
Robin Hood Gardens
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2005
E. Athanasiadou
Courtyard Houses in Contemporary
Greece
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Nicholas Beech
* The Corridor of Our School: the
development of a practice appropriate to the study of everyday space
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A. Blount
* Sir John Soane's Museum: Changlessness
and Change
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H.H. Chuang
Can We Detect English National
Identity through Architecture during the 1920s and 1930s?
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E. Cobb
Mid-Nineteenth Century Conflict: Religious
and Scientific Discourse in Architectural History
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Y. Osawa
Japanese Restaurants in London and
Tokyo
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T. Sun
A Spatial Story:
Ai Weiwei
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2004
S.
Ahmed
Brixton: Text, Signage and Writing in
the Urban Fabric
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Tilo Amhof
Adapting the Architect's Products to
Capitalist Building Production
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S.
Charlton
* The Sweet Security of Streets,
Negotiating the Public Realm around the Inns of Court, 1660-1689
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E.
Fotsi
Interpretative Approaches to Ancient
Greek Drama: Theatrical Space and Theatrical Meaning in Contemporary
Performances of Greek Tragedy
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Sophie Handler
* doing un-doing over-doing re-doing
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K.
Kice
Recording London
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Yat-Ming Loo
* White Skins/Yellow Masks. Race, Urban
Forms and British Colonialism, a Study of Kuala Lumpur (1880-1920)
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J.
Lowenfeld
* Regeneration of Britain's Council
Estates in the 1980s and 1990s: The Making of a Political and Architectural
Consensus
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M. Sorowka
Lowdham Grange, Constructing the Principles of the Borstall Experiment
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C. Upson
You can Lead a Horse to Water ... the RIBA/Ideal Home Small House Scheme, 1959
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2003
Darinka Aleksic
The Future of Public Housing? An Analysis of New Urbanism and
the HOPE VI Program
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Tahl Kaminer
The End of the Crisis. Rem Koolhaas,
The Discourse of the Analyst and the Levelling of Culture 1970-2000
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Jane McAllister
* A Stroll around the South Bank with
Enlightened Companions
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Rory O'Callaghan
The Genealogy of Mourning in Post-War
British Architecture
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Wesley Pierce
Social Reality in Perception of
Architectural Destruction during the Blitz
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Nerma Pnjavorac
On Tito's Street
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Lucy Read
Emancipation from the Word: Saussurian Value in Classical Sonata Form,
a Model for Structuralist Architectural Practice without Semiosis
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Ian Rice
* 'Ziggurats for Bureaucrats' - Sir
Leslie Martin's 1965 plan to Redevelop Whitehall
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Rosalyne Shieh
Building, Writing, Meaning, an
Enquiry into the Work and Words of Peter Zumthor
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Elli
Stathaki
'Architecture and ... The Smiths'. Relating
Music and Architecture
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Sotirios
Varsamis
Spatial Palindromes
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Murphy Xu
Public
Life in Hotel Lobbies and Lounges - Hilton Hotels London
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Cordula Zeidler
Signification and the Event. The
Changing Perception of the Twin Towers before and After 9/11
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2002
Julia Bodenstein
* In Search of Lost Ground. Women
Architects in the GDR
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Good, F.
Encounters with the Spatial. The
Relationship of the Spectator to Him/Herself and as Somehow the Subject of the
Artwork
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Hamilton,
J.
An Architecture of Asylum
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Pfanner,
K.
* In/Between. Spatial and Visual
Thoughts on Bay Windows
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Morag Tait
* Mappery in the Metropolis: The Case
of the London Street Finder, 1810-1936
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Thompson,
A.
Et in Arcadia Ego? Dereliction in
Philadelphia and at the Eastern State Penitentiary
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Tianzhao,
L.
Wander the Order, Wander ChinaTown
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Nina Vollenbroker
* 'The retrospective traveller and the
thinker among the tombs'. In Search of Savannah
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Well, Y.
* Piloti
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Wu, M-J.
Rocking City; Underground Space. An
Investigation of'Underground' in Urban Space
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2001
Ben Campkin
* Dirty Subjects. Degeneration and
Regeneration in King's Cross
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Lilian Chee
* The Purloined Museum. Finding the'Freud
Museum'
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Valentina Croci
The Merchandising of Culture: the
Grenville shop in the British Museum, Gucci and Marni shops in London' Sloane
Street
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*Carole Ebert
Thinking and Making. Cross
Disciplinary Reflections on Architecture with specific reference to
Architecture and Disjunction by Bernard Tschumi and Collage City by Colin Rowe
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Gönlügür, E.
The Architecture of the Eye: Spectatorship
and Theatre Architecture in late nineteenth century London
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Jon Goodbun
Empathising with Abstraction, or
Objects, and How to Help them with their Problems
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Hunt, J.
What was the last day you could call
your own?
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Kirkham, N.
Nature as Protest: a Tree in the
Machine
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Kurg, A.
* Making the World Take Flight. Diverging
discourses on art, seeing and resistance in the works of Jüri Okas
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Shih-yao Lai
The Symbolism of the Station
Architecture of the Jubilee Line Extension
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Querfurth, K.
* White-wash
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Robbetts, K.
* Sheltering Paradise: Architecture,
Nature and Environmentalism @ the Eden Project
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Rachel Stevenson
Living Images
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Tarrant, P.
A Chinese Experience. The Building of
the Fragrant Hill Hotel
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Tim Wray
* A Queer Gaze
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Eleanor Young
Ruins in Reverse. Urban
transformations around Shoreditch, London
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2000
Julia Chance
* The Contemporary Urban Park, locating
three projects by West 8 within the urban landscape and with reference to the
ideas of the Situationist International
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Elton, M.
The Horizontal Window
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Joe Franchina
A Notion of the Assembled and the Centre Le Corbusier
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Sarah Grivois
* In(ter)ventions in urban and national
space: Ernesto Rogers and BBPR in Milan
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Marko Jobst
* Bull's Eye: the London Underground
and cinematic vision
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Ridwan Kurniawan
Florian Beigel's Half Moon Theatre; the
language of the street as theatrical enclosure
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Ohashi, M.
Authentic Copy: validity of
authenticity in replicas
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Sam Osmond
Palmyra, Baalbeck and Spalatro. The
effect of the periphery on British architecture
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Deborah Singmaster
* Architectus Ludens. The role of
architectural humour in critical discourse
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1999
Alevizou
V.
* A Fictional Experience of Space:
Kafka's The Trial
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Aston
B.
Piranesi and Tschumi, a comparison of
techniques and criticism
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David Bannerman
The Architecture of Kew Gardens: a
millennium trail
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Eva Branscome
* Giving Voice to a Building. Critical
analysis of the Landhaus Khuner's Regionalism
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Wendy Drummer
The Victorian asylum and its
contradictions. A review of Victorian and modern day attitudes to the asylum
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Elliott
M.
The Prudential's Holborn Bars
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Clarence Eng
Pressure for Change and Competition
for Space in the Small Country Town. A Different Perspective on Farnham in
Surrey
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Evans
K.
The Colour of Golden Lane: Colour
theory and practice in early Modern architecture – the Golden Lane Estate, City
of London
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Jo Haire
* Representing Absence: the transmission of memory in the Jewish Museum Berlin
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Holtrop
E.
A Metaphor of Imperialism. Indian
Architecture in Britain in the Nineteenth Century
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Inokuchi,
N.
Minimal Experience
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Sarah Jackson
* Sculptural Values. The use and
application of sculptural qualities in the works of Herzog and de Meuron
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Kleinheinz
L.
Diagrams and architecture: an
approximation
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Kruger
A.
Running Places. The marathon as
identificatory movement spatialising ideas and ideologies.
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Lee
J.
Event-maker, Artangel. (Iconographical
approaches to Artangel
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Bruce Stewart
The
Gym
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Paul Wang
Consuming Sites: A contemporary
experience of restaurant space in London
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Cordula Weisser
Dwelling or Dwell-time. An
investigation of'placeness' at airports
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1998
Classey
E.
'Fantastic Form' - The Urban School,
London's Comprehensive Schools 1950-1970
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DeGory E.
* A Potential for Flexibility
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Govett R.
* The Ambigity of Realism in Post-War
Reconstruction
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Eric Guibert
Unorthodoxy and Deontology of Conran
an CD Partnership: A Post-Modern Practice of Design and Fashion Structure
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Kashemsanta
K.
Orientalism in British Architecture:
Indian Influence in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Keary R.
From Cavemen to Teletubbies: Contemporary
Underground Architecture and Children's Popular Culture
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Nandha I.
Stones
and Spirits, the Evolving Indian Temple Architecture in Britain
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Taylor L.
We're all going to the Zoo of
Tomorrow: Tecton and the unrealised promise of Modernism
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Terry E.
The Demise of the National Pavilion: From
Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia. Britain at Brussels and Lisbon
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Whiteford
J.
Framed - reinserting Ursula
Goldfinger into the architectural history of 2 Willow Road
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1997
Ana Betancour
* Images for an Urban Mythology. Horacio
Coppola's Photographs of Buenos Aires from the 1920s and'30s
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Helen Castle
Exploring Postwar Modernism at Branch
Hill
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Davide Deriu
* A Tale of Two Fears. London Tube
Shelters Between Production of Space and Construction of Myth
-------------
Diaz L.
* Mondrian's Mirror. Utopia as
Projective Thinking from Modernism to Postmodernism
-------------
Tom Dyckhoff
Building
Up Hope. The Problem of Social Change and the Architectural Object
-------------
Furuta M.
Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall. Social
Space and Cultural Halls in Post-War Japan
-------------
Gourlay
M.
Paternoster
Square - and St Paul's, an Architectural Dilemma
-------------
Hamburger
L.
'A Deliberate Preference of Ugliness'.
An Enquiry into Some Uses of the Word 'Ugly' in Architectural History
-------------
Kirby R.
Ornamentia Praecox - Architecture as
Advertisement at the Hoover Factory
-------------
Anuschka Kutz
* 'I am Out of Here' The Real Lost or
the Real Desire? East Enders, Time Out and London - their impact
upon reality constructions and the production and reproduction of the city and
space
-------------
Christine Ling
Two Historical Materialist Slide Shows:
Patrick Keiler's London and Robinson in Space.
-------------
Makridou
E.
Greek Architecture and the
International Press, 1950-1990
-------------
Yael Padan
'Almost the Same but not Quite',
Nineteenth Century European Hospital Buildings on the Street of the Prophets in
Jerusalem
-------------
Zimmerman B.
* Ornament and Monument, Or the
Divergence and Convergence of Art and Architecture in the Public Realm, With a
Case Study of Large-Scale Socialist Realist Sculpture in East Berlin
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1996
Kate aan de
Wiel
Architecture and the Philosophy of Construction.
Ove Arup's Contribution to English Modernism
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de Beer
I.
Lasdun's Royal College of Physicians:
the Programme as Unity for Modern Design
-------------
Thomas Deckker
Objects in a Landscape.'Specific
Objects' and Contemporary European Architecture
-------------
Gibson A.
* From Landing to the Lobby. Stairways
and Elevators, an Experiential History of Vertical Movement
-------------
Panou A.
The Rediscovery of Russian
Constructivism in the Architecture of Deconstruction: The Work of Rem Koolhaas
and Zaha Hadid
-------------
Barbara Penner
* The Ladies' Room: A Historical and
Cultural Analysis of Women's Lavatories in London
-------------
Richards
F.
The National Buildings Record: The
Work of Sir John Summerson and Bill Brandt
-------------
Scriven
L.
Architectural Centres: The Public
Promotion of Architecture
-------------
Senior S.
Coin Street
and the South Bank
-------------
* Brian Stater
'War's Greatest Picture'. St Paul's
Cathedral, the London Blitz, and British National Identity
-------------
Andy Stone
Vision and the Interior. The Problems
of Representation, Objectivity and the Disappearance of Form
-------------
* Katerina Von
Ledersteger
Hearst Castle
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Victoria Watson
Borromini. An Inquiry into the
Interpretation of the Style of the Architect Francesco Borromini Within the
History of Modern Architecture
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1995
James Beighton
Les Maisons Jaoul: the mythology
surrounding them and their influence on British architecture
-------------
Bianco L.
Limestone in Post-War British
Architecture
-------------
Hallows
L.
Competence and Performance: an
interpretation of the theory and practice of Herman Hertzberger
-------------
Kedney N.
Broadgate
-------------
Kingham
J. M.
The Midland Hotel by Oliver Hill
-------------
Mijatovic
S.
Vision in Motion: Architecture and
Film
-------------
Morissey
M.
Colin Lucas - Architect. A British
Modernist in the Nineteen Thirties
-------------
Penny Olsen
Erno Goldfinger - the formative years
and the path to Willow Road
-------------
Wan
Ismail W.H.
Tracing the Origins of Architectural
Elements in Modern Detached Houses in Malaysia (1950-1990)
-------------
Watanabe
H.
The Elephant and Castle Post-War
Development. A critical analysis of the perceived failure.
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1994
Elisabetta Andreoli
* Memory and Identity in the Modern
Metropolis: Elements for a Discussion. The Case of Sao Paolo (Brazil)
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Diogo Burnay
Modern Architecture in Macau. Architecture,
Modernism and Colonialsm in Macau
-------------
* Hilary French
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Freedom
-------------
* Naomi House
A House of Maps. A reading of the
Museum of London as a Representation of a City
-------------
* Karin Jaschke
Movement Patterns and Spatial
Construction. A Proposal Against the Silent Body
-------------
Felix Mara
Theatre of the Mind: an
Interpretation of Colin Rowe's Writing on Architecture, 1945-1990
-------------
Andrew Mylius
Imaging an Empire, the Construction
of Britishness in New Delhi, 1912-1931
-------------
Jane Rendell
Women on the market. A Feminist
History of Sites of Consumption in Regency London
-------------
Jane Tobin
Publishing Builds: The Editorial
Architecture of the Architectural Press 1950-1970
-------------
Webb P.
Coventry Cathedral Revisited, With
Special Attention to Spatial Qualitites
-------------
Philip Wells
Keeling House and the Work of Denys
Lasdun: The Search for an Architectural Realism in the 1950s
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1993
Amanda Birch
Snapshots, Aspects of Modernity in
Simmel's Berlin
-------------
Julian Kverndal
Holborn Viaduct, a Victorian Urban
Regeneration Project?
-------------
Mirfendereski
A.
Architecture of Thought: Architecture
of Action: A Narrative Account of Bruno Zevi
-------------
Margaret Reid
Surviving History. O. M. Ungers and
the Post War Context
-------------
Katherine Shonfield
Imprisoned Rooms. Architectural
Ideologies and Post-war Public Housing Constructional Failure in Britain
-------------
* Helen Thomas
The Spectacle and Liminal Zones
-------------
* Tom Weaver
The Architectural Unseen
-------------
Rob Wilson
The Myth of the Adelphi
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1992
Halldora Arnardottir
The architecture of Aldo Rossi an d
Carlo Scarpa; the San Cataldo Cemetry, Modena and the Brion Family cemetry at
San Vito d'Altivole near Treviso. (The work of architecture as autonomy for
death)
-------------
Jonathan Hall
Thoroughly Modern: the Duchy of
Cornwall and the Rebuilding of the Kennington Estate 1850-1939. (2 vols.)
-------------
* Sandy McCreery
From Moderne to Modern; an
Ideological Journey along London's Western Avenue from the 1930s to the 1970s
-------------
Elizabeth Rabineau
Propaganda by Design; architecture in
the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger
-------------
Jim Roche
Irish State Planning, Modernism and
Ballymun - a terrible beauty
-------------
Verena Schindler
Yiu Gonzales
Discourse, history and the question
of power: the Modern Movement in the 1920s and 1930s in Britain.
-------------
Catherine Steeves
Towards a new Jerusalem: architecture
and politics in the London Borough of Finsbury 1943-1946
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1991
Brown K.
M.
The Voodoo Past: Recent Notions of
the'Use' of Architectural History
-------------
* Alexander Buchanan
The Architectural Museum 1851-1918
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Elizabeth Darling
Wake Women: A History of Matrix
Feminist Architecture Cooperative
-------------
Grehan D.R.
A Decade of Decline
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1990
Eugenie Biddle
To discuss, how factory canteens,
National Kitchens and Restaurants were established, in an attempt to retain the
health and fitness of women, and to allay discontet amongst Britain's populace,
during the First World War
-------------
Flinn C.
C.
Capitalising on Social & Economic
Demands: Speculative Office Building in London 1953-1966
-------------
Jonathan Hill
The Form of Power of the Power of Form
-------------
Moriss P.
'Another Palace for the People' -
Charles Harrison Townsend and the Bishopsgate Institute
-------------
Eva-Marie Neumann
* Aesthetics of a Strategy -
Architectural Proportion and English Reconstruction 1945-57
-------------
Victoria Perry
The Brynmaw Rubber Factory - The
Design and Fall of a Modernist Masterpiece
-------------
Alicia Pivaro
The Sun Has Got His Hat On - Leisure
and Modernism in 1930's Britain
-------------
Jane Riches
Auguste Perret and his Contacts with
Artists: Paris 1900 to 1914
-------------
Katerina Ruedi
* Guardians of Sleep: Architectural
Education and the Culture of Simulation
-------------
Susanne Waters
'Just Doing the Job' - Post War
School Building Programme Middlesex County Council 1945-1955
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Debra Shipley
MARS. Modern Architecture Research
Group. Its Aims, Activities and Reputation
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1989
Bhargava
A.
Architecture and'The People's Game' -
A Social History of the Football Ground
-------------
Crandall
D. J.
Terms on Interment
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Loader R.
The Architecture of Efficiency -
Architecture and the development of the Model Factory in Britain 1914-1925
-------------
MacConnell J. M.
* Trading in Desire
-------------
Patricia McHugo
References to Dress in Architectural
Literature
-------------
Ritzu J.
M.
Asymmetry and Modern Architecture
-------------
Sotiriou M.-E.
* Greece without Columns: Ideological
and Cultural Issues in Greek Architecture in the 1920's and 1930's
-------------
Williams
J.
London As It Could Be - Urban Design
in London 1900 to 1989
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1988
Helfrich
K.
'Tugwelltown': The Architecture of
Greenbelt, Maryland, Designed and Built by the Resettlement Administration of
the United States during the mid-1930s
-------------
Kandilorou
I.
The Architectural Press and the
Architectural Profession: Their Formative Years, Britain 1842-75
-------------
Ng C.-F.
British Modernism in the early 1970s:
Burrell Museum Competition
-------------
Peter E.
A Nineteenth Century Public Library -
Islington Central Public Library
-------------
Podhora
L.
From Rationalism to Functionalism: Modern
Architecture in Czechoslovakia 1900-1938
-------------
Richardson
K.
The Building of Sussex University
1961-1966
-------------
Tumak E.
The Mappin and Webb Triangle in the
City of London: an Illustration of British Post-World War II Architectural Conservation
-------------
Whalley R.
John D. Sedding and the Arts and
Crafts Garden
-------------
Norman Reuter
Copenhagen Housing
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1987
Derek Bean
The
Golden Lane Competition
-------------
Bor-Shueun Chiou
'Truth in the Garb of Fiction': Chambers'
A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
-------------
Alex King
Urban Improvement and Public
Pressure: The Civic Society Movement c 1902 - 1930
-------------
Tota Mamalaki
Constructivism as Ideology (USSR
1927-27)
-------------
Jeremy Melvin
Myth in Ruskin's Architectural
Thought 1869-1885
-------------
Marino Rossi
Sir John Soane and Joseph M Gandy: A
Partnership in Limitless Architecture
-------------
Mary Whittaker
'She who wears the shoe knows where
it pinches'. The involvement of women in housing design in England 1918 -1939
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1986
Iain Borden
* A New Way of Housekeeping: Co-operative
Housing and the Garden City Movement
-------------
Dorothy Field
A Home of One's Own: the United Women's
Homes Association and Housing for Single Working Women
-------------
Geoff Hanmer
The
Rise of the Two Inch Wall (3 vols)
-------------
Thomas Hoffman
Through the Sash Window into a Brave
New World: Aspects of Rationalization in German Architecture in the 1920s
-------------
Lisa Oestreicher
The Shape of Things to Come: Modern
Set Design in British Film 1927 - 1939
-------------
Maxine Partridge
C'est Magnifique . . But is it
Altruism?
-------------
Brian Timmoney
Modern Theatres of the Metropolis
-------------
David Vanlint
From Cockfosters to Gants Hill: Underground
Station Design 1930-1947
-------------
Dana Arnold
Eighteenth Century Attitudes Towards
Paestum
-------------
Susie Barson
The Evolution of Metropolitan Police
Stations in the 19th Century (2 vols)
-------------
Jean Lawrence
* The'American Invasion' of London: Modern
American Methods of Construction and Retailing Cross the Atlantic in H Gordon
Selfridges's Oxford Street Department Store of 1909
-------------
Jeremy Sheehan
Photography and the Creation of
Modern Architecture
-------------
Julian Holder
The Thought Behind Form: W R Lethaby's
Architecture, Mysticism and Myth and Its Place in Architectura Theory and
Practice 1880 - 1910
-------------
Penrose
P.
The Victorian Church and its Suburban
Environment: A Comparative Study of St Matthias, Stoke Newington (1851-53) and
St Marks, Dalston (1864-80) (2 vols)
-------------
Quinn P.J.
Is Modernism Indefensible?
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1985
Aston E.
J.
Glasgow: the Japanese Connection
-------------
Ecker M.
At what level can the Vitruvian
precepts of Architecture be regarded as relevant to the 17th and 18th
century Parisian Hotel Particulier?
-------------
Elizabeth McKellar
An Historical Enquiry into the Use of
Architecture as a symbol of the Sublime
-------------
Magyar D.
Confronting the Crisis of Culture: the
Parallel Development of William Lethaby and Adolf Loos
-------------
Marda N.
Architecture Theory as Social
Product, considered in relation to Beaux Arts and Bauhaus
-------------
Marshall
P. D.
'Nauseous Little Buildings': an
outline of themes associated with the interwar suburban housing estates of
London
-------------
Martin H.
Bonehead's
Bastilles: the 1834 Poor Law Model Workhouse
-------------
Moore J.
F.
Building in the Garden of Eden: a
consideration of the architectural and social ideas of C. F. A. Voysey in
relation to the ideology of his father
-------------
Taina Rikala
California's Farm Security
Administration Architecture
-------------
Nic Sampson
* 'Let's Face it William Morris was a
Swede' - Towards a'Human' Architecture in Britain
-------------
Soares Z
Q.
Notes on Colonial Architecture in
Brazil
-------------
Hettie Startup
Architecture
and Nurture: Building for the Small Child and for Motherhood 1890 - 1939
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1984
Joe Kerr
The Formation of a Post-War Housing
Policy in the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras 1939 - 1949
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Moore J.
The Reverend Charles Voysey (1828 -
1912) and C. F. A. Voysey
-------------
William Menking
The Architectural Criticism of Lewis
Mumford
-------------
Jayewardene
I. S.
The Work of Geoffrey Bawa: some
observations towards Historical Understanding
-------------
Ramsay C.
William Wilkins and the Building of
University College London
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1983
Rettig S.
The Evolution of Victoria Park 1841 -
1851
-------------
Colin Davies
The Soane Museum and the Continuity
of Tradition
-------------
Murray Fraser
* Public Building and Colonial Policy
in Dublin, 1760 - 1800
-------------
Morgan A.
The Building of the Royal Courts of
Justice 1870 - 1882
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1982
Brian Finnimore
* Aluminium Buildings: a study of
Post-war Diversification and State Building Policy, 1942-59
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Foley M.
The Grand Hotel in Late Victorian and
Edwardian London
-------------
Glasman J.
* London Synagogues and the Jewish
Community
-------------
Lingard
T.
British Architectural Drawings in the
Nineteenth Century
-------------
Jane MacFarlane
The Representation of Architecture
and Architectural History on Film and TV
-------------
Ruth Owens
The British Attitude to European
Social Housing in the 1930s
Staff
The MA Architectural History programme draws upon the full range of expertise offered by the Bartlett School of Architecture’s extensive team of professors and lecturers working in the field.
Between them, these staff represent some of the world’s most respected historians and theorists of architecture, producing both substantial scholarly work at the centre and highly innovative work at the leading edge of the field.
As experienced teachers, these staff also lead seminars, give lectures, offer one-to-one tutorials and engage directly with the students on the MA Architectural History.
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For those wishing to be considered for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Preparation Master's Award (only UK and EU applicants are eligible) applications must be received by 31 January in the calendar year in which they wish to commence study. Applicants wishing to be considered for the AHRC award should indicate this on their application and inform the programme director.
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A good second-class honours degree (or its equivalent) in an appropriate subject is required for entry onto the programme. In addition, you are expected to demonstrate some understanding of the issues facing historical and critical enquiry into architecture, and to give evidence of a high level of commitment to advanced study in the history and/or theory of architecture and cities.
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Opportunities
The MA Architectural History provides skills in the historical and critical techniques for the research and critique of any architectural subject. A student having completed the course will be equipped to undertake research in the history or criticism of architecture, and to evaluate work done in that field. Graduates of the course have gone on to pursue careers in a wide variety of fields, including:
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Graduates of the MA Architectural History have, for example, gone on to become eminent academics and historians in their own right, as well as partners and practitioners of renowned architectural practices, editors and journalists of architectural publications worldwide, television presenters, gallery curators, policy advisors, members of parliament, and business entrepreneurs in architectural tourism.