The Thesis is the major project of the Masters Programme and provides the opportunity for students to explore in depth, ideas through the medium of architectural proposals. Extending from the Group Urban Design undertaken at the start of the year, each student develops a project brief which they then take from concept to detailed resolution. All aspects of the final year programme (history and theory, practice management and law, technology and environment) are linked to the Thesis which becomes the vehicle for individual exploration. The type of project is determined by the nature of the Group Urban Design and by the personal agendas of each student. Students are encouraged to engage with real issues raised during the group work whilst simultaneously challenging established norms and preconceptions. A critical re-appraisal of established building types and inventive approaches to the generation of new forms are encouraged, with the Thesis becoming the opportunity to explore ideas through the design. Teaching is focused upon supporting each individual student’s own critical position, rather than any imposition of approach, and consequently the subsequent pages of project work are categorised only by name.
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Liverpool John Moores University - Architecture 2018
