Rooms + Cities

Rooms + Cities is a Masters Unit at the School of Architecture in Dundee, Scotland. The aim of the unit is to study - by architectural means - the forms and conditions for the eruption of rooms within the fabric of the city. By fabric we mean texture, infrastructure, morphology, topography, zoning. Rooms may take many forms and scales, they may be big or little, public or private, commercial or residential, habitable or uninhabitable, accessible or inaccessible; let us wager that in their many and varied forms, they represent the subject of the city. We believe that the city is an historically determined product of manual and mental human labour; that the form of the city both determines and is determined by subjectivity. We are interested in architecture as a conceptual practice, a site where ideas are condensed, tested and projected. Lorens Holm Cameron McEwan