Architecture

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This catalogue presents a cross-sectional journey through our professionally accredited Architectural programmes within the School of Design at the University of Greenwich. It is a companion to, and record of, the summer exhibition of student work, guiding the reader vertically through our programmes, across the interconnected modules of Design, Technology, Histories and Theories. Our architecture programmes are presented as a unified whole, collectively seen through a single pedagogical lens from year one, through MArch, to the Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Practice (PDAP).

Design practice is placed firmly at the centre of everything we do. Technology, Histories and Theories are parallel strands of creative designbased critical thinking. The subject of Architecture is in the first instance a discipline that gathers together these complex trajectories of thought, which are then put into practice.

Programme structures should have inherent simplicity, they need to provide contingency and opportunity for invention and surprise. Curriculums should be invisible at the point of delivery—that is to say, imbedded seamlessly within an intuitive teaching interface. A supportive studio-based culture is at the centre of the School of Design, where students are taught within the unit-based design studio system. We ask our students to be speculative, and we therefore have a parallel obligation to provide an environment that encourages, supports, and enables this to take place and evolve. Within this constructed model, Architecture has the potential to develop powerful contingencies for addressing the unknown, unlocking new uses, new meanings and new possibilities for yet-to-be discovered futures.

Simon Herron Academic Portfolio Lead, Architecture