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Studio 15Diploma
Kester Rattenbury, Sean Griffiths
Shape Cities
This year, Studio 15 headed off into the scary world of (mainly manual) geometry. We started with the simplest drawings ever – 100 lines, dots or shapes – then mi...
The PolytechnicResearch
The Polytechnic was founded in 2004 by Jon Goodbun, Richard Difford, and Will McLean. It exists as a very loose collection of individuals based largely but not exclusively within the architecture school at the Univers...
Digital WorkshopOther
Studio 13Diploma
Andrei Martin, Andrew Yau, Anat Stern
Marking a new research direction for our unit, this year we have undertaken to examine the role of parametricism as a mature design movement in the production of specifically q...
Studio 4Degree
François Girardin and Filip Visnjic and
Jon Goodbun
Pure Fabrication
DS04 try to continue its works on the physical and digital possibility of an architectural education, structured around a series of exercise...
Technical StudiesOther
Pete Silver, Will McLean, John-Paul Frazer, Andrew Whiting (Hût Architecture), Scott Batty (Hût Architecture)
Each academic year speakers from in and around the field of architecture have been invited to talk as a ...
First Year StudioDegree
Clare Carter, Stefania Boccaletti, Roberto Bottazzi, John-Paul Fraser, Richa Mukhia, Gill Lambert, Natalie Newey (Coordinator), John O’Shea and Richard Watson
Solid n Void
Beginning with mass produced containe...
Courses and More InformationOther
Department of Architecture to allows individuals to develop their own personal skills and knowledge in preparation for a challenging and rewarding career. The largest courses in the Department are geared explicitly to...
MAADMMA
Richard Difford, Alain Chiaradia, Dirk Lellau, Nick Puckett, Filip Visnjic
The history of architectural representation is one in which the devices used to picture and communicate form and space, also provide a mode...
Studio 16Diploma
Murray Fraser, Anthony Boulanger
Stealth Ecology
Our theme this year was ‘Stealth Ecology’, so as to arrive at new ways to enhance our enjoyment of urban culture and make cities more sustainable. Sites had to be...
Studio 6Degree
Nasser Golzari and Clare Carter
Local Living: London/Balat
The studio investigated the broader view of SUSTAINABILITY concentrating on the notions of social and economic, as well as the technical aspects, of a g...
Studio 14Diploma
Susanne Isa, Mark Hatter and Sacha Leong
“ What I need is more hellos”.
Charlie Brown
The Raum of Requirement
DS is to be seen as an experimental architectural lab where the absurd, the dream, the fact, the...
Studio 7Degree
Jane Tankard, Julian Williams
semester 1 Project 1
Deployable lobbying space
Site: Parliament square, London
Inaccessible to all but the most determined, this apparently benign space is a physical and symbolic...
Studio 1Degree
Mike Guy & John O’Shea
From extremely environmental to environmentally extreme.
Semester One:
The remains of Old Blackfriars Bridge, north side; a strangulated terrain vague crossing of sweltering Tube tunnel...
Studio 11Diploma
Andrew Peckham, Dusan Decermic
This year the studio has been focused on projects in Wroclaw in Poland (previously German Breslau). Our initial interest was in the international competition for a new Museum of Cont...
Studio 10Diploma
marcosandmarjan
Water flows, urban streams, and cultural torrents
Cairo: the whirling hub
After Venice (2006) and Istanbul (2007), DS10 explores a third city at the crossroads of Islamic and Western culture. ...
Studio 12Diploma
Jeanne Sillett, Andy Garton and Mark Rintoul
(re)adjusted territories : Cyprus double take(s)
We began with choreographed surveys in and beyond Nicosia, oscillating between North and South Cyprus across the ‘gre...
Studio 17Diploma
William Firebrace, Gabby Shawcross
Film and Architecture/City of London
We are concerned with creating architecture which is dynamic, never quite the same today as tomorrow, fading away, reappearing unexpectedly...
Studio 8Degree
Ben Stringer and Peter Barber
Paper Streets
This year we speculated about the role of the domestic street in a post peak oil scenario. Will work be less divorced from home and play in the future? How might chang...
Studio 2Degree
Ian Murphy and Virginia Rammou
Sustainable Workspace, Vauxhall
Something like 30% of an adult’s life is spent sleeping and 22% working which, alarmingly, leaves less than 50% for partying! So the concept of work...
ResearchResearch
Studio 3Degree
Constance Lau and Krystallia Kamvasinou
This year, Studio 3 revisits iconic and famous pieces of architecture and art. The studio’s working process of research and exploration is aimed towards the creation of a des...