Unit led by Robert Mull, Catrina Beevor & Peter Carl
About the Unit
In order to be effective, architects must connect what they design with how they feel about the world. They must mobilize their identity and personal resources in the service of what they believe not what they are told to believe by the mediated world of high architectural culture and education.
As a diploma/MA student you have an obligation to explore the limits of your personal design identity and develop certainties that are capable of sustaining you in practice. This is a unique privilege. The Free Unit will help you do this by offering an alternative to the traditional unit programme - giving you the opportunity to propose, develop and realize independent projects or to become involved in your own live projects supported by the professional infrastructure of the projects office.
The emphasis is on your personal position. So each student develops a detailed "contract" with themselves and the Free Unit detailing how, when what and where. Then each student is helped to identify external tutors and is given support to develop a personal tutorial team, what the studio calls your "friends". These ten friends are involved in directing, judging and in some cases finally assessing your work. Otherwise your projects are closely tutored and supported by the unit staff in the same way as a conventional unit.
In recent years students have carried out projects, which emphasise their personal histories, often returning to places they have known or wish to work in the future. The results have been moving and deeply felt and for many have become the basis of their future practice.
Students also use the unit to refine and launch their own practices and at its best the Free Unit marks the first stage of a students future practice rather than the final stage of their education.
This year there will the option for a limited number of students to work on projects and spend time in Moscow and Seoul supported by our new Moscow School of Architecture and the Korean National University of the Arts in Seoul.
Unit numbers are limited and access is by interview on the day after the Unit presentations.
Exhibition details
| P.V. | Tuesday 25 June 2013, 6.30-10pm |
| Opening | Wed 26 June - Fri 5 July 2013 Mon-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 11am-5pm |
| Venue | Spring House (1st Floor) |
| Unit | Architecture Free Unit |
| Course | Professional Diploma in Architecture RIBA Part 2 Architecture (MA) |
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