Undergraduate Architecture

Studio 01: Generosity

Alex Bank and Sam Casswell

Studio 1 will explore the potential of generosity in architecture. Generosity comes from the design of real things simply expressed; the interrelation of exterior / interior spaces; the gesture of a building; structure / construction; proportions, materials, textures, colours. Practicing these fundamental aspects of architecture will require effort, intellect, humour and a good eye. We will investigate how architecture can bring a lasting sense of delight and pleasure to sites in central London.

Studio 02: After City 2 – Tolerance and Compromise

Colin O’Sullivan and Charlotte Harris

Studio 02 will continue its explorations of European rural settlements, this year in Alentejo, Portugal.

Studio 03: Crossing Cultures Industrious Edgelands: a productive threshold between town and country

Sandra Denicke-Polcher and Jane McAllister

The studio offers students to be part of a larger research group and develop architecture proposals and strategies for the depopulated mountain village, Belmonte Calabro, in Southern Italy. Working with local stakeholders, migrants and graduates, Studio 3 proposes an “Industrious Edgeland” to re-animate the town of Belmonte; preforming as an inhabited live-work threshold and engaging the surrounding landscape with the civic town centre.

Studio 04: Frame and Horizon

Anna Ludwig and Rufus Willis

Studio 4 will consider the topography of London’s city wall and how, through the good governance of urban institutions, sanctuaries in the city can be created to provide support and opportunities for its citizens. Our speculations, informed by two closely related representational conceptions: Frame and Horizon, will assert a public realm in which edge conditions become borders for exchange not boundaries of separation.

Studio 06: The Experimental House

James Payne and David Leech

"While it is true that concentrating on the individual house is socially irresponsible...the little house should not be scorned." Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, Some Houses of Ill-Repute, essay 1971.

Abandoned Farm House in Eleonas -View from Garden, Athens, Greece (2017)

Studio 07: Looking Outwards

Robert Barnes and Dr Bo Tang

Studio 07 offers students the opportunity to engage in a transitional setting in Europe; a migrant gateway for refugees in Eleonas, Athens, Greece.

Palazzo Giustiniani and Ca’ Foscari, Grand Canal Venice

Studio 09: The Foundation: Private Realms, Public Rooms

Jillian Jones, Ewan Stone with David Howarth

Studio 09 are interested in how buildings engage with the public life of the city. We will be working in London and Venice, examining the evolution of domestic architecture from places of living to spaces for exhibition and display.

Studio 10: Both Directions at Once: Architecture After Brexit

Kieran Thomas Wardle and Owain Williams

What will be the Architecture of Brexit? How can the way we build represent a democracy pulling in both directions at once? A flawed memory of the past and an imagined future are the basis of many voter’s reasoning for voting in the 2016 EU referendum. We will be visiting historic buildings around the UK to reimagine defunct architectures to offer a commentary on the divergent identities emerging across the UK, looking to the past to say something surprising about the future.