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U10 2011-2012 Martin Tang

The MArch Architecture programme offers a large number of research-focused design units, all of which allow students to pursue a rigorous professional approach to architecture within a highly speculative and creative context.

unit 10 MArch Architecture Unit 10
CJ Lim, Bernd Felsinger - The Imaginarium of Urban Ecologies - It is vital to fundamentally re-think how cities work in a symbiotic relationship between man and nature. ...
unit 11 MArch Architecture Unit 11
Laura Allen, Kyle Buchanan, Mark Smout - Surface to Air - Unit 11 continues to explore land use and the corresponding architectures, technologies, infrastructures and ecologies inherent in ...
unit 12 MArch Architecture Unit 12
Jonathan Hill, Elizabeth Dow, Matthew Butcher - Factual Fictions - Histories and novels both need to be convincing but in different ways. Although no history is completely objective, to have any validity it must ...
unit 14 MArch Architecture Unit 14
James O'Leary, Paul Bavister - INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE, The Semiotics of Space in the time of the 5th Sun - Contemporary architectural environments can be seen as communicative spaces where ...
unit 15 MArch Architecture Unit 15
Kristina Schinegger, Stefan Rutzinger, Stefan Ritter - fuzzy bodies - Architecture as a field of cultural production is throughout relative and fuzzy; there are no true or false values to be detected ...
Unit 16 MArch Architecture Unit 16
Josep Mias, Johan Berglund - ISLANDS - Unit 16 wants to exist in a close symbiosis between academic research and architectural practice. Our way of working is close to how projects exist in a practice ...
unit 17 MArch Architecture Unit 17
Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Niall McLaughlin, Michiko Sumi - Materials: Ideas - Materials have shaped architectural ideas throughout history and cultures. They are practical as well as intellectual tools which ...
unit 18 MArch Architecture Unit 18
Nannette Jackowski, Ricardo de Ostos, Manuel Jimenez Garcia - Crypto Phantom’s Sensorial Materiality - Unit 18, or Generational Phantoms, continues to investigate fast paces of social and technological change ...
unit 19 MArch Architecture Unit 19
Philippe Morel, Mollie Claypool, Kasper Ax - The Living Spaces of algorithmic - The first thing to do when attempting to grasp the extent of today’s revolution in computing is ...
unit 20 MArch Architecture Unit 20
Marcos Cruz, Marjan Colletti, Richard Beckett -  POROSITY Towards an architecture of permeability - Unit 20 has formed a particular interest in crossing boundaries of the traditional architectural ...
unit 21 MArch Architecture Unit 21
Abigail Ashton, Andrew Porter - Chronometrics Translation -  Mercatorial projection is a translation between the curvilinear geometry of the surface of the earth and a two dimensional – or flat – projection ...
unit 22 MArch Architecture Unit 22
Izaskun Chinchilla, Carlos Jimenez Cenamor, Wood And Fire, Towards A Definition Of Mild Architecture - There are two conceptual traditions easy to recognize in architecture which affect how we begin designing ...
unit 23 MArch Architecture Unit 23
Bob Sheil, Emmanuel Vercruysse, and Kate Davies - ACTS OF DECEPTION - In Unit 23 we make things. We make things that make things up. We fabricate fabrications. We are devious, irreverent and  ...
unit 24 MArch Architecture Unit 24
Simon Kennedy, Michael Chadwick - COLLISIONS - Unit 24 employs film, video and animation techniques to generate architectural propositions. Unit 24 seeks to operate consciously and conscientiously within ...