Overview

The MArch Graduate Architecture Design (GAD) is a one-year postgraduate course, conceived to provide open access to advanced research in architecture, and is open to all, internationally.

The first phase of the complete re-design of the postgraduate programme offers the MArch Urban Design and the MArch GAD, both of which are installed in the new building — the Royal Ear Hospital — providing a more visible entity devoted to prospective architecture. The new overarching scheme is known as ‘B.PRO’. It offers more structured access to the realisation and application of research and the production of new schemes of conception and construction in architecture and urbanism.

The 2012–2013 MArch GAD is organised around eight ‘research clusters’. These clusters feature more specific research in a number of domains, and offer the opportunity to gain access to new computational tools and a new culture of scripting, directly connected to tools of fabrication. Inspired by and directly related to the current scene of international architecture creation, the teaching of software packages such as Maya, Arduino and other processing platforms are all taught from the perspective of an innovative idea of conception and fabrication.

The Bartlett International Lecture Series presents the opportunity for students to be confronted by the main streams of research that will be influential in the near future. Through the different critical sessions, it is possible to enjoy the process of evolution in the work of the students; the final exhibition with the presentation of drawings, models and animations, all of a very high quality, is clearly demonstrative of the intense activity undertaken throughout the year.

Whether produced through groups or conducted as individual research, all the work demonstrates an incredible energy and a richness which reveals a very large diversity of approaches enriched by cultural and individual experience and interests.

As an international course with students who come from all over the world, and with the field trips (to destinations such as Reykjavik, New York, Berlin and Austria) the MArch GAD gives students the chance to discover new realities — and their attendant possible contextual implications. Through the federative idea of creative architecture, the MArch GAD is the opportunity to find a way to participate in a new community but also to affirm the singularity and the originality of individual talents.

This twelve-month course is not only an open door to advanced architecture but also the base from which to define a singular practice and for each student to invent a strategy to find a position in the professional world.

Frederic Migayrou

Bartlett Professor of Architecture

Director of B.PRO

B.PRO Directors

Professor Frédéric Migayrou, B.PRO Director

Andrew Porter, B.PRO Deputy Director

GAD Staff and Research Clusters

Alisa Andrasek, GAD Programme Leader

Professor Stephen Gage, Report Co-ordinator

Direct teaching by:

RC1 - Alisa Andrasek, Daghan Cam, Maj Plemenitas (biothing.org)

RC2 - Marjan Colletti, Guan Lee (marjan-colletti.blogspot.com)

RC3 - Ruairi Glynn (interactivearchitecture.org)

RC4 - Xavier de Kestelier (smartgeometry.org)

RC5 - Philippe Morel, Thibault Schwartz

RC6 - Luke Pearson

RC7 - Jose Sanchez

RC8 - Daniel Widrig (danielwidrig.com)

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Different workshops will be initiated during the year for a better access to fabrication, scripting and conception. In addition other seminars and lectures will help the students to increase their understanding of the contextualisation of architecture through historical understanding, aesthetical and critical positioning, socio-political integration and intervention.

Structure

Information for this programme is currently under preparation.

Content

Information for this programme is currently under preparation.

Applying

Application procedures, fees, funding and scholarships

Please visit the UCL Postgraduate Application and Entry page for information on how to apply.

Programme-specific information follows below.

Prior qualifications

The MArch Graduate Architectural Design programme is open to students with a degree in Architecture or a similar cognate discipline.