Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

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Attendance & duration

Full-time: one year, two days a week
Part-time: two years, one day a week

PLEASE NOTE There is no official closing date for this course, but you are advised to apply as early as possible as we will only consider your application if there are places available on the course.

Start Dates	Sept	Feb
Full-time	Y	N
Part-time (day)	Y	N
Part-time (eve)	N	N

Tuition Fees*

Full-time (EU) £7,200
Full-time (non-EU) £10,800
Part-time (EU)
per 20 credit module £800
Part-time (non-EU) per 20 credit module £1,200

* Tuition fees are subject to change, please check with Admissions

Location

London North campus
Spring House

Department

Architecture and Spatial Design

Further information

Admissions Office
Tel: 020 7133 4202
Fax: 020 7133 2677
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

For further academic questions contact s.sinha@londonmet.ac.uk

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Aims of the course

This design-based MA is distinctive in offering an opportunity for research in construction, architectural and urban design in sustainable development. It will help you to acquire the tools, techniques, knowledge and skills necessary to help transform the places and spaces that individuals and communities inhabit, where resources are scarce, and both culture and technology are in a state of rapid change. It offers you a broad understanding of what is involved in the sustainable construction of domestic and community buildings using self-help techniques of construction, adaptation, repair and management. The course also provides you with transferable skills, working methods and the confidence to build a career within either the development or wider built environment sector.

The course includes a two-week field trip to a situation of rapid change and scarce resources, and a four-day full-sized modelling workshop in the UK. Past field trips have been to India and Kosovo.

Entry requirements

Applicants should fit into one of the following categories:
(1) Architecture graduates with a good first degree who wish to specialise in this area with a view to working abroad or in UK in sustainable development.
(2) Professionally qualified designers, architects, planners, engineers or a related profession or trade, who have some experience working in situations of scarce resources and rapid change and who would like to extend and develop their knowledge in this area.
(3) Those with extensive professional experience in a relevant field

Course structure

The course is design-based and consists of a specialist taught module, a research methods module, two double research and design-based modules and a design based thesis.

Modules:

The course is design-based and consists of a specialist taught module, a research methods module, two double research and design-based modules and a design based thesis.

All modules are core modules

Changing Places
Research Methods for Design
Design Research and Techniques
Design Project
MA Architecture Thesis

Assessment

Assessment is by a range of methods including studio ‘crits’, marking and tutorials. Submission and course work include precedent studies, written papers, diaries, design manuals and a design portfolio, culminating in a design thesis.

Career opportunities

The Department has placed a number of UK students in work with an NGO (Development Workshop) and organisations in India. This course also prepares you for work in alternative (technology/energy) or more hands-on situations than are available in mainstream employment and thus offers a distinct career path within architecture and the built environment. Direct engagement in the field often generates research material for the design elements of the course and leads to opportunities for further study.

Staff

Sumita Sinha, is an architect with her own practice, Eco=logic. Sumita has worked in India, France, Spain and the UK. She is a Civic Trust assessor and a visiting lecturer for Delhi School of Planning and Architecture and external examiner for Birmingham University. Sumita is the founder of Architects For Change, the Equality Forum for British Architects and past Chair of Women In Architecture.