Masters of Architecture
Arts University Bournemouth
Key Information
Campus location
Poole, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 8,000 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* UK: £8,000/year full-time, £4,000/year part-time; EU/non-EU/Channel Islands and Isle of Man: £18,500/year full-time, £9,250/year part-time
Introduction
The Masters of Architecture explores new approaches to architectural practice, through making, innovation and collaboration.
Master of Architecture
This two-year, studio-based course, is the second part of the three-part qualification in becoming an architect. This design-based professional qualification, accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Architects Registration Board (ARB).
You’ll work alongside fellow makers, collaborators, and enablers who have come from different schools around the world; you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across the arts. The course philosophy has many connections and develops on from the four key issues identified in the BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA part 1).
Course Duration
- 2 year (full-time, 90 weeks)
Course Leader – MArch
Ed Frith – Course Leader
BAHons DipArch(Cantab)
Educated at Bristol, Cambridge, Princeton and Columbia Universities and has taught at Bath Birmingham and Greenwich Universities. As a director and architect at Moving Architecture, he has developed performance pieces and buildings in the UK, China, US and across Europe. His Greyfriars Surgery Project, in Hereford, has been exhibited at the Royal Academy and won an AJ small projects award.
Course Philosophy
This course takes its approach from the context of the ‘shared studio-based arts university’ where all courses are making. This philosophy is applied throughout the taught units by emphasising the role of drawing, models and texts in the making of architecture; the things we make – to think about the things we make.
As a student, you’ll be asked to develop projects with strong narratives commenting on current social, cultural and environmental issues. In each unit, you’re encouraged to give architectural expression to your own personal views and visions, whilst aiming to produce tangible propositions, mindful of how they might be realised.
Studio Culture
The studio is both professional and exploratory. This educational experience is grounded in a strong studio culture of making and thinking, supported by regular lectures by practitioners, seminars and reviews.
The studio generates an atmosphere in which open, critical and reflective practice supports exploration and risk-taking where we test, discuss and present ideas. We’re particularly focused on delivering studio-based and student-centred learning environment.
We offer shared facilities such as the workshop, fab-labs, the print room and the Drawing Studio.
Personal, Professional and Ecological Development
The course will support your personal development towards a creative contribution to architecture and the wider world after graduation. The final Thesis Design year gives you the opportunity to develop your own research design project that integrates making and collaboration through an ecological narrative.
Studios and Resources
Studying on the Master of Architecture course you’ll work in our dedicated studios and have access to 3D workshops with manual and digital manufacturing equipment.
Our unique location means we’re near dramatic, rolling and beautiful landscapes (New Forest and Jurassic Coast) and within a vibrant and energetic seaside town. There’s also a proposed urban project by Zaha Hadid Architects which provides a great context and research for projects and interventions.
The campus itself is enhanced by our ‘very blue’ drawing studio with ‘exceptional light’ by Professor Sir Peter Cook RA, Honorary Fellow and visiting professor, and opened by the late Zaha Hadid.
You’ll be able to make use of our makers lab – a shared creative space also used by Modelmaking students – designed to give you the space to create. In addition, you’ll have access to the printmaking room with is located with the Fine Art studios.
Over the years, we’ve gained a number of traditional presses, including letterpress, etching, relief, lithography and silk screen printing. There are dedicated areas for exposure, screen washing and acid etching – and new presses are added all the time. The modelmaking, printing and workshop facilities encourage a culture of making and production.
Wireless computer access will help you integrate digital understanding and outcomes into the way that you work and our specialised library also provides you with a range of relevant material in architecture and the arts.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course Outline
What are the options? What is at stake? Are there really options? How should we choose? At the centre of the investigation is the body: architectural, institutional, corporeal; and the landscape: ecological, contextual, natural and man-made.
The Master of Architecture programme is for you if you are looking for something different and fresh in your route to becoming an architect in a changing world.
The urban density of the AUB campus has seen the insertion of a Drawing Studio by visiting professor Peter Cook. This RIBA award-winning building was opened by the late Dame Zaha Hadid in 2016.
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarships and Bursaries for EU & International Students
At AUB we aim to have a diverse student environment with the best creative talent and have a large number of bursaries and scholarships available, ranging from £2,000 to £20,000. These are awarded for every year of your course, giving you financial support throughout your time studying with us. All applicants are automatically considered. Find out more here.
Career Opportunities
What Students Are Doing
Our students have been selected as British Council Fellows at the Venice Biennale, and the whole student body with a Mike Davies International Fund Bursary all played a part in the British Pavilion. You’ll join the eclectic architecture student body, with weekly visiting lectures from international and national guests ranging in the last year from Norman Foster and Mike Davies to Jessie Brennan and Shumi Bose.
Architects Michael Hopkins and Peter Cook started their architectural education in Bournemouth.