Undergraduate Architecture - London Metropolitan University

Drawing of grand Vistorian public house with union flag

Studio 01: Character

Alex Bank and Sam Casswell

Essential characteristics of architectural space will be explored throughout the year in design work, seminars and visits to buildings in London and Berlin. Students will learn to comprehend the poetics of architecture through understanding buildings as sequences of spatial figures and by searching for the less-tangible ‘immeasurable’ qualities of space.

Studio 02: City Rooms – Big and small, fast and slow

Charlotte Harris and Colin O’Sullivan

Following two years of exploring the potential of contemporary rural landscapes in Germany and Portugal, Studio 2 returns to London. Our projects for the year will be located in our borough of Tower Hamlets where Poplar HARCA, a major housing association, have invited us to work collaboratively with them to identify opportunities to add non-residential amenity to their estate. They will act as your client for the year and you will present your proposals to their regeneration teams.

Studio 03: Crossing Cultures – Skills Exchange

Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Jane McAllister, Rita Adamo (Academic facilitator in Calabria)

Our aim as a studio is to rethink architecture in order to address how the responsible use of resources shapes our environments as Skills Exchange. We will be provocative in live situations and share our knowledge with local stakeholders in the form of ideas, drawings, models and experiences, and through these, actively shape local discussions and reveal new opportunities to initiate and empower change.

Studio 04: Edgelands

Anna Ludwig and Rufus Willis

Studio 4 will consider notions of settlement and density on the Becontree Estate, East London. Engaging with Barking and Dagenham Council we will contribute to wider ethnographic research and community initiatives to celebrate the estate’s centenary.

Students, refugees and volunteers sharing conversation over tea in Athens Central Market square (left); Abandoned construction of a typical concrete frame polykatoikia (multi-residence building) (right), Athens, 2019

Studio 07: Open City

Robert Barnes and Dr Bo Tang

Studio 07 is the degree studio within the Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources (ARCSR). Working collaboratively with MArch Unit 06 over the last 16 years in countries such as India, Nepal, West Africa and Eastern Europe, the studio allows for individual approaches to define self-motivated programmes supported by an extensive knowledge of techniques and investigative methodologies developed within ARCSR.

Studio 09: High Street: After the Shops

Jillian Jones, Ewan Stone and David Howarth

Studio 09 are interested in the potential for public and community buildings to fill the empty spaces left when the shops have closed. We will be developing new typologies of cultural and community buildings to redefine the High Street and enrich people’s lives.