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A three-year degree in architecture that is world-renowned for both creativity and innovation, accredited by ARB/RIBA for Part 1.

About

This three-year programme听teaches students from across the globe the skills to practise architecture and an understanding of how to use those skills imaginatively in different contexts.

As an architecture student at The Bartlett, your time will be spent in both the studio and the workshop, with approximately 70% of the programme taught and assessed through your design portfolio. Design teaching is delivered by leading practitioners, specialists and academics in small groups or on a one-to-one tutorial basis with frequent review sessions.

As well as being vocational preparation for practising architecture, this programme听introduces students to the wider societal forces which affect them and architectural production, stressing the indivisibility of the architectural, cultural, professional and technological realms. Alongside design teaching, our students take core modules (Technology, History & Theory, Computing and Professional Studies) which are assessed through a combination of coursework, essays and examinations.

Highlights

• Learn the skills to practise architecture, exchanging ideas with students from across the globe as well as leading practitioners and academics
• Work in state-of-the-art bespoke facilities 鈥� both our studios and workshops are designed for creative flexibility and idea generation 鈥� and take part in the UK鈥檚 biggest architecture Summer Show
• Choose one of our famous Design Units听in Year 2 and 3, with whom you鈥檒l develop your own unique project and undertake substantial field work and trips
• Enjoy being part of a听world-leading community for studying, teaching and researching architecture and the built environment

鈥�Studying architecture at The Bartlett has encouraged me to do things that I had never dreamed of doing, challenging my world, both technically and intellectually.听

Tom Ushakov, Architecture BSc student, 2019

鈥�Studying at The Bartlett is rigorous and rewarding for students with confidence, grit and curiosity.

Annabelle Tan Kai Lin, Architecture BSc student, 2019

Modules

Year 1

Design Projects (60 credits)

Module coordinator: Max Dewdney, Isaac Simpson, and Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami

This module explores ways of seeing, understanding and interpreting objects, places and events, learning to look beyond the obvious into the unseen and often absurd qualities of things. Students develop the skills to undertake investigations and representations of architecture through various media and complete a series of design projects across a range of scales, constructed or represented through models and drawings.

Environmental Design (15 credits)

Module coordinator: Blanche Cameron听补苍诲 Sal Wilson

This module aims to teach students the skills and concepts needed to address environmental design as an integral part of the architectural design process. Students are introduced to environmental design and its associated fields including climate, energy and sustainability. They study, among other things, environmental physics, energy sourcing and the relationship between buildings and global climate.

History of Cities and their Architecture (15听credits)

Module coordinator: Mario Carpo听补苍诲 Eva Branscome听

Students are introduced to Western architectural and urban history, from the classical age to today, with a brief overview of architectural history outside of the Western canon. This module also introduces new methodologies of architectural history and theory developed in the field of cultural studies.

Making Cities:听The Production of the Built Environment听(15 credits)

Module coordinator: Nicholas Jewell

Students develop an understanding of the relationship between architecture, planning and construction, learning how these teams come together to design and deliver projects and how the accumulation of these projects shapes and is shaped by their urban context. Using London as their primary resource, students undertake critical and creative research on specific built and emerging projects within the city, which are primarily explored through the production of short films.

Structures, Materials and Forming Techniques (15 credits)

Module coordinators: Steve Johnson and Anderson Inge

This module is designed to equip students with the tools and technical knowledge they need to allow the development of their own design thinking and personal research. Students develop a clear understanding of the materials used in the making of buildings, how these materials are fabricated and the architectural and structural influence of material selection.听

Year听2

Design Projects (75 credits)

Module coordinators: Farlie Reynolds and Colin Smith

Students work in small studio groups called Design Units, to respond to a brief and develop a substantial portfolio and final project, often but not always inspired by the Unit鈥檚 annual field trip. This module consists of three stages, in which students investigate, develop and synthesise their building designs. Projects may take the form of 1:1 installations, material testing, speculative drawings, animations and models, either digital or physical

Design Technology I (15 credits)

Module coordinator: Oliver Houchell and Sal Wilson

Students learn to demonstrate a project鈥檚 potential to respond to site and context, by addressing the technical requirements of a building鈥檚 design and construction and the needs of its users. Each student collates, amongst other things, a suitable selection of materials, a structural strategy and an environmental and energy strategy for their design project.听

Ethics &听Agency听(15 credits)

Module coordinator:听Jonathan Kendall

This module introduces students to the full range of career options in architecture, including business, practice and enterprise initiatives. Students work in groups to simulate practice and business activities and learn transferable skills applicable to both practice and other enterprise initiatives.听

History and Theory of Architecture (15 credits)

Module coordinators: Adam Walls and Thomas Charles Dyckhoff

This module develops students鈥� understanding of key moments in the history and theory of architecture, and the ways in which architectural knowledge is produced. Students study, amongst other things, 20th century architects and buildings, a range of key architects鈥� philosophies and approaches, the relationship between architecture and the arts, and the influence of architectural writing on architecture.听

Year 3

Design Projects (75 credits)

Module coordinators: Farlie Reynolds and Abigail Ashton

Students work in their Design Units to respond to a brief and develop a substantial portfolio and final project, often but not always inspired by the Unit鈥檚 annual field trip. As with Year 2, this module consists of three stages, in which students investigate, develop and synthesise their architectural designs. Projects may take the form of 1:1 installations, material testing, speculative drawings, animations and models, either digital or physical.听

Design Technology II听(30 credits)

Module coordinators:听Simon Beames and David Storring

This module teaches students the skills to critically examine their final design proposal, determine the key technical issues involved, research these and then integrate the research into a creative design process. Students gain an advanced understanding of the synthesis of verified strategies for structural and environmental design. They also learn to carry out technical research through a broad range of media and methodologies, and how to test, analyse and evaluate construction techniques and principles.

History and Theory of Architecture听(15 credits)

Module coordinators: Megha Chand Inglis and Edwina Attlee

This module introduces students to a range of historical and theoretical approaches and research methods, empowering them to productively engage with specific architectural and urban questions and tdatehemes. Students gain听research and writing skills, as well as the knowledge to facilitate critical thought about the production, representation, use, experience and impact of architecture and cities, drawing out relationships between past and present.听

Design Units听

In Years 2 and 3, the Design Projects modules are taught in design units, each consisting of around 15-17 students from both years. Each design unit is led by distinguished tutors from academia or professional practice, usually both.

Below, please find summaries of the briefs that our design units will be working on听in 2024-25, along with links to unit blogs and social channels.

Current Architecture BSc students will receive full briefs at the start of term via Moodle.听

UG1

Flora-culture: Recomposing Regenerative Cities

Margit Kraft and Toby O鈥機onnor

鈥淚t is possible to build with respect for nature and people鈥�听 - Guillame Habert

Plant fibre materials present fundamental opportunities for urgent and radical shifts in contemporary building practices. This year Unit 1 is asking: What can our flora do for us - and us for them?

Learning to build with our whole range of plant matter, the unit will investigate and speculate on sourcing scenarios, life cycles, combinations, transformations, and articulations of local trees and other plants as the basis for architectural innovation that responds directly to the climate and ecological crises.

The study trip will be to Vorarlberg in the Austrian Alps. Learning from building visits, artisan makers and large scale manufacturers we will explore over 1000 years of innovation in timber construction in this unique region.

The project focus area will be in Clerkenwell, London, where students are invited to find their own representative urban morphological site to suit the making process they are investigating.

As the main material for earthquake proof pagodas, modular high alpine shelters, the foundations of water cities like Venice, bridges and much more, plant life has provided the planet with millennia of beautiful tectonic structures and spaces.

From forest and street trees, via coppice to grasses, rushes, leaves and husks: What kinds of beautiful architectural practices can be听developd that engage with these incredible resources?

UG2

On the Mend: Patterns, Assembly, and Form Through Self Build Practices

Zachary Fluker and Jhono Bennett听

The needle has shifted within the discipline of architecture. The field is听now operating in a new normal of city-making that requires design work to perform for both the planet and people. This change towards more collective responsibilities compels architects to reconsider how carbon usage and consumption patterns can be reduced听within the built environment, addressing all scales of building 鈥� from material procurement to long after users take ownership of their new structures.

Architects听now have clearer parameters than ever to innovate and re-evaluate their design and construction processes to meet this shared global challenge. More hybrid and people-focused approaches will be required to repair, reprogram, and reassemble the current urban fabric. By working more collectively across social, economic, and environmental dimensions within the city, UG2 students will address this challenge by developing more grounded and resource-attuned designs that embrace people-centric systems of making.

By redefining the relationship between client, user, and maker, UG2 will design architectures that resonate with the aspirations of urban communities in both form and operation. The unit will explore how systems like the circular economy and the collective agency of self-build can reshape the way we construct. Through this approach, design research in London, combined with a field trip to Brussels, will generate proposals that are deeply embedded within their context in form, material, and inhabitation.

Image: Celia Pym, Fraser Jacket (detail)

UG3

After Hours

Ifigeneia Liangi,听Daniel Dream and听Vasilis Marcou-Ilchuk

This year UG3 will consider the significance of darkness in architecture. Historically, architecture has prioritised daylight, neglecting the potential of darkness and gloom. By examining the cultural, historical and technological factors shaping our relationship with the luminous and the dark, UG3 aim to challenge this bias and explore the atmospheric qualities of night.

The unit will examine how poets, novelists and thinkers have perceived nightfall as a space of danger and reverie. By considering the contemporary political factors surrounding darkness, such as public safety and energy consumption, students will explore how darkness has shaped culture, identity and urban experience.

UG3 will consider the importance of electric light as a starting point for our designs, along with its importance for the design process in the form of rendering. While digital rendering offers unprecedented control over light it can also create a gap between the image and the actual experience of a built space. The unit will consider how artificial light can be integrated into the design process and how to better align the magic of rendering with physical experience as students design buildings that pine for the twilight.

Between midnight and 3 AM, the veil between the worlds is thin.

Image Credit:听Sasha Audas, Ad-Hox Nexus, UG3 student, 2023-24

UG4

FUEL

Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos

UG4 is driven by the dialectic between the pragmatic reality of architecture as a profession of restrictions and the deep creativity we as practitioners bring to our projects. The studio is led by Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos of the award-winning architecture practice Bureau de Change.

A society's energy availability dictates its architectural achievements. In the last 300 years, construction methods, building forms, and materials have changed more significantly than in the preceding 5,000 years due to the implementation of fossil fuels. Yet, the same source that once defined progress and modernity now drives climate destabilisation, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion.

UG4 will investigate our evolving understanding of energy and fuel, shaping new architectural strategies, lexicons, and polemics. Retrofitting will be approached as an act of architectural stewardship, interweaving a building鈥檚 past and future in a dialogue that reveres both history and sustainability.

UG4's exploration will extend through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, investigating adaptive reuse and sustainable projects to examine how diverse contexts address the challenge of energy refurbishment.

The adoption of renewable energy sources, circular economy principles, and regenerative designs are not merely technical solutions but are indicative of a deeper ontological reorientation towards an architecture that is symbiotic with the natural world.

Bureau de Change is an award-winning architecture practice founded by Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos, who hail from Greece and met while training as young architects working at Foster + Partners.听

Projects by Bureau de Change are a direct product of the founders'听upbringing, passions and experiences 鈥� combining the pragmatism and formality of their architectural training with a desire to bring a sense of theatre, playfulness and innovation to the design of spaces, products and environments. The result is a studio where rigorous thinking and analysis are brought to life through prototyping, testing and making.听The practice is celebrated for its highly inventive and playful private residences, which celebrate material, form and light, as well as richly textured commercial projects and has won numerous awards. ()

Image: Pink Floyd Inflatable Flying Pig at Battersea Power Station.听漏 Jonathan Rhodes

UG5

颁尝滨颁贬脡

Bongani Muchemwa and Patrick Massey

鈥淚 take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become clich茅s - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.鈥� -听Cornelia Parker

Clich茅s hold a hidden transformative potential. This year UG5 will embark on a journey to explore the duality of clich茅s, using them as a starting point for exploratory drawings that challenge conventional thinking and subvert familiar ideas, embracing the unfamiliar to uncover the vast possibilities hidden in their opposites. By exploring these direct and indirect counterpoints, the unit aim to uncover the true meaning behind the clich茅.

A clich茅 is the most known thing -听so familiar it numbs the senses, becoming dull and irritating. But in its inversion lies a path to the unknown and a profound sense of wonder and delight.听Inverting clich茅 becomes a transformative act, a starting point for creating work that resonates with deep meaning and beauty. UG5 will use this notion to question modes of architectural practice, understand the historical and cultural context in which they work and challenge norms.

This year, students will develop design methodologies through exploratory drawing and explore the spatial consequences of these methodologies. In the building project, the unit will question established typologies on the theme of cultural exchange. The field trip will take students from Catania to Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

Image:听Collage of past UG5 students experimental drawings.

UG6

Contingent Matter(s)

Ashley Hinchcliffe听and Ben Spong

UG6 is a space for exploration and experimentation. Taking a hands-on approach to design, the unit encourages听individuals to establish their own methods that resonate with them and the ideas they are exploring. The unit moves between the speculative and the tangible, the drawn and the made to reveal possibilities for the architectural that lie beyond convention.听

Both within and outside the discipline, architecture is often perceived as the creation of fixed, permanent structures that allow for a specific kind of use, yet the built environment is profoundly shaped by contingent matters - circumstances of an unpredictable and changing nature that affect how buildings are designed, constructed, and adapted over time.

This year UG6 will ask how architecture can better engage and maintain contingent matters. Drawing on the relationship between climate and contingency, the unit aims to develop practical and poetic measures that expand architecture鈥檚 ecological, material, and spatial boundaries.听

The field trip is to Belgium where students will see a range of intensely detailed and personal Art Nouveau buildings, a weird and wonderful range of museums and exemplary contemporary buildings.

Image:听Yellow Hallway No.II 鈥� James Casabere.

UG7

Sensational States

Joseph Augustin and听Christopher Burman

It could be argued that architecture is fundamentally experienced through contrast -听even though contemporary construction often results in atmospherically bland, homeostatic, unsenseable spaces.

The unnatural consistency and 鈥榩erformance鈥� of much of our contemporary environment sharply disregards what neuroscientist Michel Cabanac terms 鈥�础濒濒颈别蝉迟丑别蝉颈补鈥�, the physiological role of sensory pleasure in helping individuals calibrate to the environments around them. Indeed, our enjoyment of sensory delight may even be a vital perceptual and biological mechanism.

From this perspective, the pleasures of a cool breeze or hot bath might be considered as small fragments of a design agenda interested in reconsidering deeper environmental relationships. What is the architecture that emerges as we amplify, modulate or blur these sensory signals?

Building on previous on-going interests in material systems, supply chains and civic space, UG7 invites students to pursue sensation - to resolve architectural experiences defined by heightened contrasts and fluctuating states of body, thermodynamics and energy. The unit will embrace a primary function of architecture - the modification and moderation of habitable climates -听to consider how rich sensory propositions interact with the unavoidably urgent reality of ecological change and the rapidly shifting patterns of heat, winds and rainfall brought about by planetary warming.

Field Trip:听Andalusian Alliesthesia

The UG7 field trip will take students听to Seville, Cordoba and culminating in a visit to Alhambra in Granada.

Along the way students will explore the听deep historical, political and cultural dynasties -听The Alc谩zar of Seville, Seville Cathedral, the legacy of Mud茅jar architecture, the Mosque-Cathedral of C贸rdoba -听each contending with the intense Andalusian summer heat听through a variety of vernacular and contemporary architectures strategies designed to cope with extreme climatic realities.

Image: Thermal Image Capture, Islamabad by听Christopher Burman,听2024.

UG8

Entropy (S)

Maria Fulford and听J枚rg Majer

In physics, entropy is the measure of disorder in a system. The more chaos the more entropy. It is based on the second law of thermodynamics which defines the nature of energy and reveals听that: not all energy within a system is useful; energy naturally dissipates; entropy increases over time; and ultimately the whole universe will burn out and be transformed into an all-encompassing sameness.听

As a continuation of our interest in time and its effect on the built environment this year Unit 8 will explore the relationship between entropic processes and the order of things. Inspired by the work and writing of Robert Smithson and Rudolf Arnheim UG8 will think about what entropy means in terms of architecture, construction, use and decay. The unit will consider our human desire to create order and systems that work against entropy and the constant work that this creates. This cyclical process gives rise to opportunities of doing and undoing, transformation and the reworking of things.

This year UG8 will also have a material focus on stone and its entropic qualities. Stone is created by geological processes that occur over millennia, though its matter is inert it is an active material which lays bare the forces of nature and time. Through rigorous testing, experiments and workshops, the unit will explore the potential of this ancient material and its ability to transform itself into future forms and composite materials.

Fieldtrip: Italy, Naples.

Image:听Face to Face by Anthony McCall. Photograph: Jason Wyche, New York, 2013

UG9

Gathering

Chee Kit Lai听补苍诲 Jessica In

This year, UG9 will explore the concept of 'gathering' - coming together to mark special events, achievements, or milestones through activities, ceremonies, or festivities. Gatherings express a collective mood at a specific moment in time and serve functions like Celebration, Commemoration, and Demonstration. These events can take place in both digital and physical spaces, playing a crucial role in art, culture, and civic life. They highlight the role of art and artists as catalysts for collaboration, expressions of hope and joy, and as vehicles for protest.

UG9 will examine how the city's physical and digital constructs interact with its inhabitants, shaping societal ideas and vice versa. By studying public gathering spaces, from concerts to political rallies, UG9 aims to understand the spatial qualities that encourage people to gather.

The design of public spaces is never apolitical - open spaces encourage life and activities, windows and balconies encourage natural surveillance, while wide roads may serve strategic purposes. The unit听is听also interested in the materiality and improvised designs people use to express their messages during gatherings, especially in today's hybrid reality, where events are experienced both in person and remotely. The timeline and legacy of gatherings, whether planned, spontaneous, or site-specific, are also key areas of focus.

Image:听Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square, Photo: Central Press, October 1908.

UG12

Settlement: Oculi

Hannah Corlett and Niall McLaughlin

Each year, the unit creates a constitution for a new settlement together, agreeing a tool kit of shared values, with each student designing an individual building on our shared site. A settlement suggests a community of buildings in a particular place, a situation with its own origins, which grows and develops over time. It is also an agreement acceptable to all parties. Both meanings require each other. Individually, settling belongs to our oldest animal intuitions and is at the heart of architectural experience. Buildings also settle, they wear and weather, they acquire and shape histories.听

This year, the听focus will be on understanding the environmental significance of density, light, and curation. The settlement will be located on the western edge of Regent鈥檚 Park and take inspiration from introverted architectures that curate light and frame aspects. UG12 will create a dense urban network nestled between the 鈥楽ublime Beauty鈥� of Regents Park and 鈥楾he High Hopes鈥� of Somers Town, manipulating light from the zenith through techniques learned and experimental and articulating a matrix of connected and controlled views born out of the environment and our collaboration. For the field trip with UG4, Unit 12听will journey across Northern Europe looking at exemplar buildings that manipulate light.

Image:听Photograph of the ceiling of the Baptistery of Saint John in Florence, Italy by Hannah Corlett. View looking up at the ceiling of the Baptistery of Saint John in Florence, Italy, showing light entering the central and side oculi.

UG13

Flight Lines:听An Architecture of Trajectories

William Victor Camilleri and

A line of flight allows the architect to track their construction鈥檚 development through space and time. Fabrication involves the movement of materials from points of origin to sites of assembly, a shift from matter to component, the realisation of potential set against the realities of construction; these moments of transfer and interchange are what we call trajectories.

The inter-relationship between drawing for construction and constructions for drawings is the听origin for the year, allowing students to embody the multi-faceted position of the architect-maker. This parallactic position enables the collapse of distinctions between registration, process, production, and output, challenging the conventions of architectural completion and representation.

UG13鈥檚 outlook hybridises the material with immaterial, haptic fabrication with ephemeral experience. With a historical pursuit for everything exquisite, the unit explores iterative and collaborative processes at the cross section of performative architecture, landscape sensibility and workshop fabrication. This principle enables work at the junction between the analogue and digital, where three-dimensional fabrication techniques are combined with precision drawing methods throughout the design process.

Image:听The photographer pigeon, UG13 Collective, 2024

UG14

THE HEALING CITY

David Di Duca and听Tetsuro Nagata

UG14听discusses architecture through an anthropological lens; studying how societies and individuals remember and forget through the built environment. In previous years, the unit focused on the role that nostalgia, rituals, manufacturing and authenticity have on the collective identity. This year, students will study听how a city can heal and recover after a traumatic event, and the capacity for memorials to act as a barometer of the political consciousness, as well as a tool for empathy.

The examination of different modes of shared remembering will serve as the听starting point for these investigations. Unit 14 will question what the memorials around us, both hidden and established, reveal听about the events they describe and the societies that placed them there. Through their designs students will explore how听narratives are woven into the built environment and attempt to translate one person鈥檚 experience to another.

In a time when global environmental and economic factors advocate against the inexcusable demolition of buildings, the unit will continue to imagine innovative and evocative futures by adapting existing structures. Unit 14 will aim to transform the urban fabric that experienced this trauma and construct new approaches to tell its stories and aid the healing process for the city.

Image:听Retirement home in Ned啪ari膰i, Sarajevo. Credit:听Alen Petrovic @4LifeVideos

UG21

Multimodal

Abigail Ashton,听Andrew Porter, and Tom Holberton

鈥淭hough nothing will keep us together鈥� -听Heroes (1977) written by Bowie / Eno

The multimodal holds things together. Design听involves听combining different modes -听drawings, physical models, digital models or material fragments - to听develop an idea.听Each type of representation has its code, but it is in the projected space between different media that the design can emerge, formed through intersections, combinations, layering, or transduction, combining indeterminacy and abstraction.听

This year,听the focus will be on creating unique design processes that reimagine multimodality, considering how drawings, models, and media can come together.听In all these cases, whether analogue or digital, drawings can be both representational and operational. UG21 will ask you to create new 鈥榗odes鈥� that redefine the possibilities of these familiar formats, creating new forms of drawing and models that can be dynamic, interlinked and generative and work in new ways when combined.听听

In 1977 David Bowie and Brian Eno recorded Heroes with Tony Visconti.听From a studio overlooking the Berlin wall, they created a new sound through the layering and overdubbing of patterns in music.听The unit will focus on Berlin, a city that is perpetually considering how to combine and reconcile competing ideas.听

Image:听Lewis Brown, Printed Morphologies (2022) from .

Key information

Entry requirements

• Read the entry requirements for this programme on the UCL Undergraduate Prospectus

Application deadline

Applications are now open for 2024听entry via UCAS. The deadline for applications is 31听January 2024.

Fees and funding

• Tuition fee information can be found on the听UCL Undergraduate Prospectus听
• For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at 911爆料网, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the听听section of the 911爆料网ebsite.

Accreditation

Architecture BSc is accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Architects Registration Board (ARB). Students who successfully complete the programme are exempt from Part 1 of the ARB/RIBA examinations.

Careers听

Upon completion of the programme, many of our students听continue听with their training to become registered architects by taking听a year out in an architect's office in the UK or overseas, before听applying for Architecture MArch听or another postgraduate degree.

Graduates of this programme benefit from excellent employment opportunities听补苍诲 destinations vary from internationally renowned offices to small-scale specialist practices. Some architecture graduates also use听their highly transferable skills in other design-related disciplines, such as film-making, website design and furniture design.

Contacts

Programme Director: Farlie Reynolds
Programme Administrators: Beth Barnett-Sanders (BSc Year 1)听补苍诲听Kim Van Poeteren听(BSc Year 2&3)
Departmental Tutors: Dr听Lo Marshall听(Year 1), Albert Brenchat Aguilar (Year 2) and Dr听Stamatis Zografos听(Year 3)
Programme Admissions: Colin Smith听
Undergraduate Admissions enqueries:听Complete the contact form