Housing and Urbanism Graduate School of the Architectural Association, London

The Housing and Urbanism Programme applies architecture to the challenges of contemporary urban strategies. Today's metropolitan regions show tremendous diversity and complexity with significant global shifts in the patterns of urban growth and decline. Architecture has a new role to play in developing far-reaching strategies and generating novel urban clusters. The programme focuses on understanding the most important changes in the contemporary urban condition and showing how architectural intelligence will help governments and the development community to respond to these trends. We combine cross-disciplinary research with design application, and students work is divided among three equally important areas: design workshops; lectures and seminars; and a thesis/project which allows students to develop an extended and focused study synthesizing design and urban research.
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