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BA Architecture

Dissertations:
Histories & Theories

Street scene in Banjul with pedestrians, low-rise buildings, and overhead utility wires.
Fatoumatta Ndure
Composite drawing of architectural plans, models, and survey charts exploring hybrid design practices.
Evelyn Cruz Gonzalez
Monochrome graphic showing a cloaked samurai silhouette over layered architectural drawings and ink splatters.
Kyra Abisola Puddicombe
Sketch of a roadway with vehicles cutting through dense Amazon rainforest, viewed from above.
Almerah Sherifi
Archival photograph showing women holding hands around a large tree, framed by surrounding vegetation.
Shashini Weerasuriya
Official illustrated map showing pavilions, gardens, and pathways at the 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition.
David Fernandes Peixoto
Green book cover titled “Green-Washing Architecture” with textured fabric binding and embossed lettering.
Zac Grego
Monument with a tall obelisk rising from a terraced memorial landscape in an arid setting.
Jordan Jatto
Imelda Marcos in a flowing patterned dress standing before a modernist building and fountain.
Enzo Ploch Da Silva

theme description

Teaching in histories & theories of architecture is designed as a developmental journey over the three years of the BA, through ideas, politics, art, buildings, and landscapes as products of complex contexts. This supports a process of gaining skills and knowledge through developing individual interests and identities through a critical assessment of the historical record and the constructed environments they encounter.

The Year 3 architecture dissertation (of which there are a sample of exemplars above) gives students the opportunity to develop their own research interests both as individuals and in small tightly guided groups overseen by a dedicated supervisor. Themes this year have focused on power, ecologies, everyday spaces, artefacts & representations. A high level of research quality and critical evaluation are expected, and textual and visual assessment is combined with visits to sites, libraries, & archives. The dissertations produced demonstrate the variety of interests and the developing independence of their authors; arresting in terms of their written and visual quality, as well as the connections made between case studies and pressing concerns in architectural histories and theories..

tutors


Year 3 Tutors:
Dr Laura Bowie (module lead), Dr Omar Abolnaga, Paola Camasso, Dr Georgios Loizos, Dr Sabrina Puddu.

Year 2 Tutors:
Dr Laura Bowie (Term 1 module lead), Paola Camasso (Term 2 module lead), Dr Omar Abolnaga, Roo Angell, Dr Shiyu Jin, Matthew Stewart, Dr Francesco Zuddus.

Year 1 Tutors:
Matthew Stewart (Term 1 module lead), Dr Omar Abolnaga (Term 2 module lead), Roo Angell, Paola Camasso, Dr Shiyu Jin, Dr Georgios Loizos, Dr Sabrina Puddu, Maria Venegas Raba, Dr Caroline Rabourdin.

with thanks to:

Lobna Al-Sana, Kirti Durelle, Andrew Higgott & Professor Andrew Knight-Hill

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Architecture Portrait

BA Architecture is a three-year full-time programme offering exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 1, and the first step towards a career as an architect. The programme interweaves the disciplines of architectural design, histories and theories, technology, and professional practice. The design studio is central to the work students undertake, with year 2 and 3 students taught together in design units. Each unit addresses a different brief and design agenda. This is a rigorous and highly inventive programme, dedicated to architectural ways of designing, thinking and seeing the world. It provides students will skillsets applicable to a wide range of careers. See further details on our prospectus page.