Master of Arts - Architecture Futures

MA Architecture Futures aims to provide an education that stimulates academic achievement, personal initiative, and acquisition of inter and trans-disciplinary knowledge and skills. It will offer opportunities to collaborate with other postgraduate students in different disciplines within Leeds School of Arts.

Develop expertise that will enable students to engage with architecture and the built environment in new, creative, innovative and socially responsible ways. This course will combine modules that explore architectural design while helping them to gain an in-depth knowledge and skillset across design, arts, media and humanities.

Students will focus on one of four prominent interdisciplinary strands including:

ARCHITECTURAL AGENCY & PRACTICE, exploring the crucial issues of architectural agency and its forms of social engagement.

DIGITAL ARCHITECTURES, including the use of computational techniques in architecture to produce solutions within material and social systems.

ARCHITECTURE & MEDIA, using innovative integration of different media in the process of architectural and urban design.

ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM, considering aspects of environmental concerns, infrastructure, policy, territory, reuse and appropriation.

All themes are considered in the contemporary transformation and expansion of the architectural discipline.

The modules will help students to develop a conceptual and critical approach to the architecture project, while key modules will give them the option to choose a research (written) or a design pathway (design portfolio).

Students will produce a focused research projects in writing, and through design projects using a range of media that students will develop expertise in appropriate design research methodologies, skills, knowledge and critical judgement for the advanced study of architecture.

Using a series of case studies, students will identify and demonstrate new perspectives on existing knowledge and practice and will be expert in suggesting innovative solutions to a range of complex urban issues.

Suitable for graduates from a range of architectural and spatial or environmental design disciplines, this course is focused on education through strong research methodologies that inform research-led design and critical reflection. Students will be encouraged and supported as they can develop specialist knowledge in the landscape of architecture, spatial and interdisciplinary practice.