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Master of Architecture - MArch
Norwich University of the Arts
Full Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
The course is made up of eight units taught over two years full-time and three years part-time study. Each unit falls into the area of Design Studio, Research or Professional Studies. Studio options range from practitioner-led masterclasses, or active research in coastal architectural design, contemporary considerations in conservation/rehabilitation, modern vernacular architecture in provincial towns and rural areas. You will be supported to tackle real-world issues, while speculating and proposing new futures through bold experimentation and boundless enquiry in project-based learning. Our tutors come from industry and research and our community is a place where academics, practitioners and students are co-designing new ways of thinking. Teaching is delivered in a dedicated postgraduate studio space, equipped with computer workstations, model-making facilities, large format printers and 3D printers. You share the infrastructure of a specialist creative arts university with equipment, expertise and support of disciplines such as Games, Fine Art, Fashion, and Interior Design. You have access to workshops with capability for plastics, metal, wood, and concrete work.
This initial exploratory Design Studio is thematically set to develop an inquiry into a design issue or process issue and seeks to establish a radical engagement in current design exploration. The themes may be drawn from theoretical, operational or situational concerns and the unit offers students a point of departure from undergraduate study and allows students to explore plausible visions, processes, and propositions and evaluate the probable impact of architectural and spatial interventions in a rural or urban setting. This studio will be driven by a thematic study led by a research academic or practitioner.
This unit comprises the preparatory studies phase of a design project which will form Unit MARCHDS3. The project will centre around a subject offered by academic research staff, or a visiting professional in the form of a 'masterclass'. Topics may be drawn from practical approaches such as coastal studies, conservation; technical/environmental design or a specific theoretical approach directed by the expertise of the academic or visiting professional/professor. The design project may involve location and site visits.
This unit comprises the second phase of the design project which was initiated in Unit MARCHDS2. Have carried out initial research and preparatory studies in the previous unit, you will now move to the design proposal phase in this unit. The project will centre around a subject offered by academic research staff, or a visiting professional in the form of a 'masterclass'. Topics may be drawn from practical approaches such as coastal studies, conservation; technical/environmental design or a specific theoretical approach directed by the expertise of the academic or visiting professional/professor. The design project may involve location and site visits.
The objective of this unit is to develop a deeper understanding of theoretical approaches in architectural philosophy and its engagement in contemporary times. This will be offered as a series of seminars on treatises and texts, covering a selection of recorded history of architectural ideas, and a thematic or selected history of ideas, from ancient texts to the present day.
This unit offers a supervised study of various subjects related to the Architectural and Building Industry. These may range from economics, project management, manufacture and retail of materials and fixtures, planning and urban studies, cultural and urban geography, sociology of built environments, environmental issues, curatorial studies, history and theory of architecture, and technology of building design.
This unit is the second of the final two units in the course and continues the research and development undertaken in MARCHRES3. For this unit you will either develop and submit a comprehensive design project or design thesis. The comprehensive design route requires design of a specific architectural project which demonstrates a high level of competence in aspects such as typology, technologies, established approaches, etc. The design thesis mode offers the opportunity to venture a more speculative outcome in unexplored architectural futures
The unit is intended to further your appreciation of professionalism in individual and group work. You will develop your knowledge, insight and skills of working in and running a professional practice and gain an understanding of today's fast-changing construction industry.
This unit is the first of the final two units and supports the work you will undertake in the final unit, MARCHDES4, in which you will either develop and submit a comprehensive design or design thesis. The comprehensive design route requires design of a specific architectural project which demonstrates a high level of competence in aspects such as typology, technologies, established approaches, etc. The design thesis mode offers the opportunity to venture a more speculative outcome in unexplored architectural futures.
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