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MArch Course.
MArch Architecture.
Course Leader:
Marisela Mendoza Ramos
The MArch in Architecture course offers students a creative exploration of architectural typologies, a critical understanding of contemporary themes, and the opportunity to develop environmental awareness while gaining professional skills to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century.
The growing global awareness of humanity’s impact on the environment necessitates changes in how human activities are conducted across societies. In architecture, this shift highlights the importance of user wellbeing, the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, the architect’s ethical responsibilities, and the integration of technological innovations to address climatic and environmental challenges—factors that contribute to the increasing complexity of architectural practice.
To navigate these challenges, architects must cultivate a deep understanding of socio-cultural, historical, environmental, and professional issues, enabling them to design spaces that act as positive forces for change in the world.
Within the MArch course, we address these themes through two core areas that define the programme’s ethos: Architectural Practice and Architecture & Wellbeing.
Architectural Practice:
The MArch in Architecture stresses the importance of practice, and students are encouraged to develop a deeper critical position based on a studio-centred research environment responding to complex contexts such as socio-economic inequality and the climatic emergency. The course encourages students to adopt an architectural position that questions the production of new, diverse and inclusive architectural typologies and spaces
Architectural Wellbeing:
The course integrates wellbeing as a core theme in our pedagogic endeavours and collaborative approach between staff and students. In the MArch, students systematically explore through research a personalised design methodology in response to the current and future challenges the discipline faces globally, nationally, and locally.
Ethos:
This MArch facilitates the fulfilment of the course’s ethos and produced Part 2 MArch graduates with a design ethos that enables them to address the current complexities of the world through a professional and sensible approach to architectural design.
More Info.
For more information on the MArch course, head to the NTU website here.
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