Architecture - London Metropolitan University

Architecture

Architecture at London Metropolitan University provides you with the practical skills and confidence needed to excel in the profession. Teaching staff come from some of London’s most exciting architectural practices and combine experimentation and research with extensive practical experience. As a student, you'll also have access to the amazing range of specialist analogue and digital workshops at our school.

Our graduates go on to work as architects, architectural assistants, interior designers, urban designers or in related fields such as research, journalism and procurement. We enjoy close links with the people and organisations that shape London. Our Live Projects happen locally and around the world, currently in places such as India, Nepal, Japan, Sierra Leone, Russia and Brazil.

The Metropolitan Architecture Students Society (MASS) is very active in organising lectures, events, socials and have a wide network of industry sponsors. To see what they're up to, follow MASS on Instagram and @massatmet on Linktree.

The School is housed in Calcutta House on our Aldgate campus. You'll benefit from our central London location and its close proximity to internationally renowned creative and industry hubs. The School's extensive networks and teaching practitioners will encourage you to expand your knowledge and skills through lectures, events and practical advice, leaving you with excellent career prospects.

Architecture Education Declares

Architecture Education Declares (AED) is a climate change initiative that sits alongside other environmental, social and political themes broadly designated as a "duty of care", which has been cultivated in the architecture courses.

Courses

Undergraduate

Architecture (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)
Architecture (Top-Up) - BA (Hons)
Architecture (RIBA Part 1) - BA (Hons)

Postgraduate

Architecture RIBA 2 MArch
Architecture: Professional Practice in Architecture (RIBA 3) - PG Cert
Architect Apprenticeship (Level 7) (RIBA Part 2 and Part 3) - MArch
Design for Cultural Commons - PG Dip

Design for Cultural Commons - PG Cert

Architecture Undergraduate studios

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green and white sectional model of a building in a domestic setting with back of bentwood chair

UG Architecture Studio 01: Building and Belonging

Holly Jean Crosbie, Kieran Wardle, Owain Williams

Exploring identity, place and belonging through proposing a new cultural anchor in a coastal town

silhouette of child against window through India fabric

UG Architecture Studio 02: Spaces of Birth – Spaces of Death

Charlotte Harris and Colin O’Sullivan

Times of birth and death represent the two most momentous times of our lives, and those of our families and friends. Often, the spaces where these events are played out are ill considered and show scant regard for what is happening inside, and here too, people’s power and agency is often disregarded. We will make proposals that suggest an alternative to the current norms. “I have now decided that…….. I’d like my death to be as interesting as my life has been.” David Bowie

collage of maps and photos of people pushing a wooden object

UG Architecture Studio 03: SCHOOL OF EVERYDAY PRACTICE - Pedagogy of Play

Jane McAllister, Alex Somerville

Overview “The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.” John Dewey ‘SCHOOL OF EVERYDAY PRACTICE’, will establish a sustainable platform to foster long-term knowledge exchange and growth for the village of Belmonte, Calabro. It will combine new industries with the everyday, initiate forms of playful governance.

Top of red sandstone tenement buildings in Glasgow showing the bay windows and turrets.

UG Architecture Studio 04: The New Tenement

Fran Balaam, Ingrid Petit

This year the studio will design a new housing typology for Glasgow: A new tenement. We will look at the specific spatial characteristics of a home in the 21st Century city in a housing crisis, and how, in a commodified housing market, a typology can create a sense of community. We will help you develop a close understanding of materials, tectonics and construction methods with proposals that are practical, robust and tied to how people live

View out from the 18th storey of a high-rise building.

UG Architecture Studio 05: Home?

Theo Thysiades, Chris Smith, Spyros Kaprinis

As the world and our environment is quickly changing around us and our lives are increasingly becoming more complex, we will ask you to think about and design a simple house whose interior is a kind of sanctuary, a place you can feel at home.

Undergraduate courses

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Architecture (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

This London Met architecture course with foundation year offers an alternative route if you can't meet the architecture degree entry requirements. Apply now.

Architecture (Top-Up) - BA (Hons)

The top-up Architecture bachelor's degree at London Met is the first stage towards gaining a career in architecture. Apply now and finish your degree in London.

Architecture - BA (Hons)

Complete London Met's undergraduate Architecture degree course with exemption from RIBA Part 1. Take a step toward a career in architecture today!

Postgraduate courses

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Architecture RIBA 2 - MArch

Our MArch Architecture RIBA 2 course is design-driven and will enable you to focus your skills and develop excellence in your work.

Recent Successes

Architecture graduate wins prestigious scholarship

Young Architect of the Year Award 2019

Double success at AJ Small Projects Awards 2019

Conservatory room St Bridides, David Leech

Model Housing - Housing Models

Celebration week megacrit by MASS at Cass

Mudchute Technology Workshop

Cass architecture student receives RIBA president’s commendation for dissertation

Cass Alumna Gets Top Job at Architects Journal

Cass workshop sponsored by sustainable timber organisations

Observer’s architecture critic praises work of Cass alumni

"The Sea Out Front..." Photograph: David Grandorge/Casswell Bank Architects

Cass graduate wins RIBA Journal Eye Line prize

Applied Technology in Architecture and the Fulham Scouts

Architecture students present their work to the Mayor of Leicester

Cass Alumnus wins London Festival of Architecture Modern Maypole competition

People

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Dr Adeyemi Akande

Dr Adeyemi Akande is Senior Lecturer at the School

Edwina Attlee

Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies

Matthew Barac

Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture

Robert Barnes

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Dr Jane Clossick

Dr Jane Clossick, Senior Lecturer

Ronald Davis

Senior Lecturer

Beatrice De Carli

Senior Lecturer, Architecture MA

George Fereday

Associate Teaching Professor

Carl Fraser

Associate Lecturer

Tony Fretton

Associate Lecturer

Christian Frost

Head of Research

Richard Gatti

Associate Lecturer

David Grandorge

Senior Lecturer

Dr Frances Holliss

Emeritus Reader in Architecture

Dr Claire Jamieson

Senior Lecturer in History and Theory Architecture

Mary Kelly

Senior Lecturer

Torange Khonsari

Senior Lecturer

Joseph Kohlmaier

Associate Teaching Professor

Nate Kolbe

Deputy Head of Architecture

Jonas Lundberg

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Anne Markey

Dean of School - Art, Architecture and Design

Jane McAllister

Senior Lecturer, Course Leader, Architecture (BA)

Siân Moxon

Associate Professor (Enterprise)

Kaye Newman

Head of Architecture, Interiors and Design

Colin O'Sullivan

Senior Lecturer/Level 4 coordinator

Shamoon Patwari

James Payne

Technology Co-ordinator

Takero Shimazaki

Associate Lecturer

Peter St John

Associate Lecturer

Ted Swift

Associate Lecturer

Dr Bo Tang

Reader/Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Stephen Taylor

Associate Lecturer

People

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Adrian Sibley

Storytelling Business Module Leader

Ektoras Arkomanis

Senior Lecturer in architectural history and theory

Edwina Attlee

Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies

Professor Matthew Barac

Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture

Manuela Barczewski

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Robert Barnes

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Kieron Baroutchi

Senior Lecturer for Illustration and Animation and Graphic Design

Helena Bonett

Associate Lecturer, Critical and Contextual Studies

Marcus Bowerman

Head of Make Works

Dr Jos Boys

Visiting Professor

Professor Mark Brearley

Associate Professor and Head of Cities

Patrick Brill

Associate Professor in Fine Art

Vanessa Butt

Short Course Tutor

Ben Cain

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

James Russell Cant

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography)

Sara Carneholm Mytkowski

Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication

John Cash

Associate lecturer in Foundation and senior lecturer in Interiors

Charlotte Ferreira

Associate Lecturer

Chiara Cola

Senior Lecturer in Interior Design BA

Dr Jane Clossick

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design

Mavernie Cunningham

Head of Art

Chiara D'Anna

Lecturer in Theatre Arts

Ania Dabrowska

Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography)

Emma Davenport

Head of Student Experience and Academic Outcomes

Karen David

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

Ron Davis

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Jon Davison

Visiting Lecturer in Theatre Arts

Dr Adeyemi Akande

Dr Adeyemi Akande is Senior Lecturer at the School of Art, Architecture and Design

Dr Claire Jamieson

Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture

Sebastian Edge

Photography Technician

Sally Evans

Short course technician

Emily Evans

Course leader for Illustration and Animation

Ricardo Eversley

Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication

Associate Teaching Professor George Fereday

Technology Coordinator in Architecture

Professor Christian Frost

Head of Architecture

Matt Gates

Short Course Tutor

Aikaterini Gegisian

Associate Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies (Art and Photography)

David George

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography)

David Grandorge

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Paul Harper

Senior Lecturer in 3D

Janette Harris

Senior Lecturer in Interiors

Robert Hetherington

Letterpress Technician

Andrew Hewish

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

Danielle Hewitt

Associate Lecturer, Critical and Contextual Studies

Andy Hills

3D Making Technical Demonstrator

Dr Frances Holliss

Emeritus Reader in Architecture

Christopher Holt

Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts

Ajay Hothi

Senior Lecturer, Critical and Contextual Studies Coordinator (Visual Communications)

Peter Hufton

3D Making Technical Demonstrator

James Hunting

Senior Lecturer in 3D

Jane McAllister

Architecture BA Course Leader

Jessica Kelly

Senior Lecturer

Johanna Hällsten

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

Jolanta Cerniauskiene

Jolanta Cerniauskiene is a Fashion Technical Demonstrator.

Lewis Jones

Associate Lecturer

Karabo Turner

Lecturer in Architecture

Karen Coughlan

Senior Lecturer

Dr Anne Karpf

Professor of Life Writing and Culture

Yiannis Katsaris

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography)

John Keefe

Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts

Keith Beckles

Associate lecturer in the School of Art, Architecture and Design

Mary Kelly

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Dr Torange Khonsari

Reader in Art, Architecture and Design Activism

Joseph Kohlmaier

Associate Teaching Professor, Critical and Contextual Studies

Margaret Le Cren

Co-Course Leader - BA Hons (RIBA I)

Paola Leonardi

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Photography)

Angharad Lewis

Principal Lecturer in Visual Communication

Jonas Lundberg

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Peter Marigold

Senior Lecturer in 3D

Mary Yacoob

Heather McDonough

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Visual Communication

Rosemarie McGoldrick

Associate Teaching Professor in Fine Art

Harriet McKay

Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies

Professor Maurice Mitchell

Professor in Architecture

Matilda Moors

Associate Lecturer, Critical and Contextual Studies

Siân Moxon

Associate Professor Sustainable Architecture

Dr Tony Murray

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Naomi Groves

Media and AV Technical Demonstrator at the School of Art, Architecture and Design

Natalie Katsou

Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance

Nate Kolbe

Nate Kolbe is the Deputy Head of Architecture

News from the School

London Met hosts Wild Ways Research Day

Local residents took part in a research day to influence ‘rewilding’ in London’s gardens

London Met's award-winning architecture students

London Met architecture students celebrate success, with Ryan Speer receiving a nomination for the prestigious RIBA award and Olusola Adebakin winning apprentice of the year

EVENT: London Met's postgraduate and research exhibition 2024

London Metropolitan University’s School of Art, Architecture, and Design is set to present its annual Postgraduate and Research Exhibition, running from 11 to 14 September 2024.

Yinka Ilori transforms Piccadilly Circus with his latest installation

London Met Product and Furniture Design BA graduate unveils spectacular new artwork inspired by the iconic London landmark

Abigail Jeffries wins Big Writing Challenge 2024 for "City of the Styx"

Abigail Jeffries from St. Bernard’s School in Slough has been announced as the winner of the Big Writing Challenge 2024 for her story "City of the Styx".

Professor Julie Hall appointed as next Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University

Currently serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at London Met, Julie will succeed Professor Lynn Dobbs upon her retirement.

London Met students to display work at historic Devonshire Square Campus

Students from BA Fashion, BA Fashion Photography, and Masters in Fine Art are showing their work at the Devonshire Square Campus art studio, DSQube from 12 April to 2 May 2024.

Letters from Venice

Four members of the London Met community share their experiences of participating in the prestigious Venice Biennale.

Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group

CREATURE research centre director, Professor Wessie Ling has co-organised an event exploring cross-cultural entanglements and intersectional identities through clothes and cloth.

London Met alumni Antonio Capelao launches Architecture for Kids podcast series

A new podcast that aims to engage children and young people in discussions about the built environment has been launched by London Metropolitan University alum, Antonio Capelao.

London Met unveils its 2024 National Student Survey campaign

MA Graduate Arpita Hajare describes how she created a 'simple, crisp yet meaningful piece of design' for London Met's NSS campaign.

CREATURE partners The Liliesleaf Trust UK secure £1.2 million for anti-apartheid legacy project

London Met's Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE) will collaborate with the Trust on a rolling programme of art based heritage projects.

London Met are planting for the future

Staff and student project from the School of Art, Architecture and Design to plant 420 saplings as part of Woodland Trust scheme.

London Met staff and archives feature in Hackney Museum exhibition

Co-curated by Emeritus Reader Susan Andrews, ‘At Home in Hackney’ features photography lecturers from the University, alongside images from the Special Collections.

The Africa Centre and London Met collaborate on Afropolitan culture series

London Afropolitan, an event held in September, adopted the African diaspora experience as a starting point for exploring the future of London’s culture of architecture and design.