Architecture and Critical Theory (MA) – (M.Sc.)

Course Content

As well as equipping you with an integrated approach to architecture, planning and building services engineering at an advanced level, the course content is also designed by the School of the Built Environment to develop your vocational skills and promote environmentally responsible attitudes appropriate in a rapidly changing world.

Typical modules on this course include topics such as:

* Subject and Sign after Freud and Saussure
* Social and Political Theories
* Philosophy of Technology
* Theoretical Issues in the Depiction of Space
* History of 20th Century Architecture
* Thought, Image and Critique
* Postcolonialisms
* Social Dimension of Urban Design
* Computer Modelling and Presentation

Please note that all module details are subject to change.

You will conclude your studies by undertaking a major piece of independent research in an individually determined area of architectural humanities.

Course Structure
The MA in Architecture and Critical Theory can be taken on a full-time basis over one year (September to September) or part-time over two years.

In each of the first two semesters, you will have the choice of combining modules from the School of the Built Environment and the Department of Critical Theory.

In the second semester, there is a further option to undertake a major design `package´ consisting of a studio project plus a related series of seminars.

Finally, you will complete a written dissertation on an individually chosen advanced theoretical topic during the summer period at the end of the course.