MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments

A minimum of a second-class UK degree in an appropriate subject or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. A design/creative portfolio is also expected. Applicants will be asked to submit a portfolio of their design work once their completed application has been received, and should not send or upload work until it has been requested.

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UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Graduates of this course often go on to assume leading roles in varied disciplines engaged with historic and contemporary urban environments at all scales. The course is ideally suited for graduates seeking to widen their professional practice, enhance career prospects, or embark on new career trajectories in the built environment through design, public policy or advocacy. With experience of different cities and urban conditions in a global context, graduates are highly skilled in working flexibly, collaboratively and resourcefully in different cultural, geographic and professional environments, either in the public or private sector. 

Compulsory modules

•  Design Practice for Historic Environments
•  Design Research Methods for Historic Environments
•  Final Project
•  Issues in Historic Urban Environments
•  Surveying and Recording of Cities

Optional modules

•  Architecture in Britain since the 17th Century
•  E-Merging Analysis and Design Project
•  Histories of Global London, 1900 to the Present (I)
•  Histories of Global London, 1900 to the Present (II)
•  History and Theory of Digital Design
•  Materialist Ecological Architectures
•  Multiple Modernities Architecture
•  Practices of Criticism
•  Sustainable Strategies
•  The Representation of Cities
•  Theorising Practices: Architecture, Art and Urbanism