Architecture MArch

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.** <br/><br/>**Course summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Participate in an innovative learning experience focussing on critical design, ecological attitudes and the role of architecture in society.<br/><br/><br/>- Explore diverse, cutting-edge forms of architectural practice.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop a local and global understanding of the subject.<br/><br/><br/>- Engage in exciting projects alongside diverse communities, organisations and architects.<br/><br/><br/>On this course you will develop a sophisticated and progressive approach to architectural design. Teaching and design projects are centred on a set of priorities that include social and ethical architectural practice, user and community participation, environmental sustainability, ecological forms of construction, and innovative and alternative models of architectural practice. The course promotes and delivers excellence in building and urban design, and explores architecture as a complex, interdisciplinary and dynamic ecology. You’ll graduate not only with a Part 2 architecture qualification, but with a rigorously developed and creatively explored position within the discipline.<br/><br/>There is the option of taking a year of practical experience between year one and year two.<br/><br/>**How you learn**<br/><br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>On this course, youll experience creative studio teaching culture, and develop critical skills for future career in architecture.<br/><br/>We use our extensive local, national and international networks of architects to inspire and inform your work — allowing you to explore the subject in all its diversity.<br/><br/>The course provides a friendly, supportive and yet challenging experience, to which your own input and expertise is essential. Based around principles of collaboration, the course has three main agendas: The Praxis of Architecture, Social and Political Design, and Ecological Architecture. <br/><br/>You learn through<br/><br/><br/>- design portfolio<br/><br/><br/>- lectures<br/><br/><br/>- workshop sessions<br/><br/><br/>- coursework<br/><br/><br/>- exhibitions<br/><br/><br/>- essays and reports<br/><br/><br/>- field trips and practice visits<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning**<br/><br/>**Work and Study**<br/><br/>The 2 year route follows the traditional Part 2 format and enables students to build a strong M.Arch culture in the school of architecture. The shared Praxis of Architecture strand ensures that students on this route benefit from discussions, visits, reviews and other engagement with a range of established architects and practices.<br/><br/>In Year 4, students undertake Studio 4 Extended for the year, a design studio based in Sheffield which explores a different theme each year, and introduces some of the working approaches of the course, such as mapping, field notes, scenarios, and experimental design processes. Studio 4 Extended is supported by two modules on The Praxis of Architecture: 1 Theory and Recent History, and 2 Expanding Practice.<br/><br/>Ecological architecture and creative construction practices are also explored in the Construction Ecologies module. <br/><br/>In Praxis 3 Developing your Agenda for Practice, students reflect on experience of architectural practice to date and your future aspirations and plans, and in Critical Study Extended, students are able to develop an advanced piece of postgraduate research.<br/><br/>**Live projects**<br/><br/>All of the design modules are embedded in existing communities, in the UK or abroad, and your design project will engage directly with these conditions before exploring creative future scenarios and architectural strategies and interventions. You will work with a range of actors including local community members, architects and other design professionals, artists and local authorities.