The Bartlett Autumn Show Book 2020

We are immensely proud to introduce this year’s work from our Architecture & Historic Urban Environments and Landscape Architecture Master’s programmes here at The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Our Architecture & Historic Urban Environments MA is led by Edward Denison, Professor of Architecture and Global Modernities; our Landscape Architecture MA/MLA is led jointly by Laura Allen, Professor of Architecture and Augmented Landscapes, and Mark Smout, Professor of Architecture and Landscape Futures. Working with these innovative and pioneering leaders are exceptional teams of tutors, in history and theory, technology, professional practice, and design, all highly respected researcher-practitioners in their own rights. Together with the precision and care of our professional services colleagues, these programmes have guided and supported the work you will see from an excellent cohort of students.

It has been an unprecedented year. In mid-March, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the entire school transitioned online to remote working in a very short period of time. Yet despite these extraordinary challenges, and the hardships for our students who were suddenly dispersed across the world, the quality of our students’ projects, the quality of creative and reflective thought, the quality of care, collaboration, respect, intelligence, imagination and determination have been impressive.

The projects collected in this book demonstrate understandings of noncanonical architectural and landscape histories, writings and designs that extend beyond Western-centric viewpoints, that challenge and repair legacies generated by colonialism, imperialism, modernism, and anthropocentricism. This work addresses different and complementary aspects of ecological, cultural and social sustainability, setting new international standards of design that reflect our increased collective responsibility and accountability worldwide.

On behalf of the school, we would like to thank our students, our staff and also all the support structures of friends and families. The ideas and work we have evolved together this year, culminating in this fantastic Autumn Show and book, will be carried forward by us all.

Bob Sheil Director of The Bartlett School of Architecture

Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange Deputy Director of The Bartlett School of Architecture