MA in Architecture Urban Design at University College For The Creative Arts
MA Architecture: Urban Design is taught through the School of Architecture at UCA Canterbury; a modern, progressive design environment established more than fifty years ago.
Rapid population growth, post-industrialisation, and environmental factors all pose significant challenges to urban design practices, demanding responses to complex design problems that are both nuanced and appropriate.
The course understands urban design to be a social, material and ecological discourse, modulated by diverse spatial, economic, political and temporal influences. During the first semester, students are introduced to a range of analytical tools including videographic, diagrammatic, digital and analogue modelling and mapping in the context of design exercises.
This MA course draws upon a range of disciplines, from landscape design and ecology to civil engineering and anthropology to facilitate students’ abilities to develop individual proposals and interests, which may extend to performative, experimental and interactive technologies.