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introduction |
In recent years The Bartlett has emerged as one of the most intense
centres of innovation in the field of architecture. The School encompasses
many points of view: individual pursuits are encouraged against a background
of intensive taught support and tough, but creative, criticism. It is
a design school: year by year becoming more and more like a workshop
- much physical action - high output - lots of objects and machines
- continual crits and gatherings - gladiatorial drawing feats. It is
also an inventor's school. As we sweep through the representational
world of computer-generated form into the conceptual world of the imagined
we have successfully bypassed the repetitive world of the computer hack
but are still searching for an alchemic process by which the unlike
might combine with the unlike and present a new series of conditions
in which it is not too bad... not too bad at all... Peter Cook Chairman of the School |
 Installation at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence (photos by: Omar Cotza) |
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| MArch
by Architectural Design directed by Peter Cook MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design directed by Jonathan Hill 
PhD by Architectural Design. Internal perspective, New Godet Club Istanbul by marcosandmarjan architects (Marjan Colletti, Marcos Cruz) The MArch by Architectural Design is a 12-month, full-time programme concentrating on design. It directly encourages the individual to discover his or her individual expression. There is continuous discussion of work via tutorials and reviews. The first three months are a shared programme of design, followed by the writing of a Report which becomes the theoretical reference for the subsequent Thesis Project. This lasts for 7-8 months and its theme is defined by the student (in consultation with Professor Cook). The programme is designed for both recent graduates and for qualified architects: people who wish to be part of a more speculative design environment. In its first seven years the programme has attracted students from more than 25 countries, many of whom have been on major scholarships or awards. An alternative to the normal text-based research degree, the MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design allows especially able and reflective designers to develop their architectural investigations to an advanced level within the Bartlett School of Architecture's speculative and experimental design ethos. A Research by Architectural Design thesis has two inter-related elements: a project and a text. The thesis is presented as a portfolio or exhibition, accompanied by a text of no more than 25,000 (MPhil) or 60,000 (PhD) words. Students develop their research in consultation with a Bartlett doctoral supervisor. In addition, they attend regular work-in-progress seminars and present their work to the Bartlett as a whole, and other institutions, in lectures and exhibitions. Featuring: Nick Callicott (sixteen*makers); Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz (marcosandmarjan architects*). *: From September 2003, marcosandmarjan architects will run Unit 20. |
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BSc Unit 5 Instructors: Marjan Colletti, Julia Backhaus 
BSc Unit 5. Immigrational Baths by Juan Jose Mateos New computerized technologies are constantly transforming building and design processes, having a big impact on the architecture today. Unit 5 underlines the need for research, but has confidence in the originality, creativity, experiment and innovation of the computer: it can combine practical, structural and mechanical aspects of materials with their empirical, experiential and atmospheric qualities, expanding the young students’ skills in developing and representing the building’s three-dimensional textural properties. Featuring: Chester Chipperfield, Yao Jen Alan Chuang, Jimmy Hung, Yiannis Kanakakis, Christian Kotzamanis, Jessica Lee, Joerg Majer, Mark Ng, Sara Shafiei, Alleen Siu, Filipa Valente, Adeline Yen-Ping Wee, and Juan Jose Mateos. |
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Diploma Unit 14 Instructors: Stephen Gage, Phil Ayres, Will McLean, Usman Haque 
Diploma Unit 14. Dynamic attractors by Caroline Zakrisson Unit 14 is a place where students define their own territory and undertake their own post-graduate research. The unit is part of the Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop, a loose association of current and past members of Unit 14 interested in the aesthetic and pragmatic possibilities of an environmentally responsive architecture. Interactive architecture is an exciting new field that requires knowledge, intuition and individual vision, and is explored through physical experiment and speculative representation. Featuring: Caroline Zakrisson. |
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Diploma Unit 15 Instructors: Nic Clear, G.L.+P. 
Diploma Unit 15. Architecture and Its Representation Unit 15 is the only Diploma Unit solely dedicated to pursuing architectural and spatial ideas through time based media such as film, video and animation. Unit 15 uses film, video and computer animation in three ways: 1) To analyse specific contextual and site conditions, where context and site are not seen as simply geographic location but rather they may constitute an intellectual and conceptual territory; 2) To generate form and programme but more importantly develop an attitude to those categories; 3) To produce architectural and spatial interventions utilising the time-based modes of inquiry and to develop their outcomes through time based applications. Featuring: Mario Balducci, Sarah Burton, Yick Hong (Hong) Chan, Ka Yan (Phoebe) Chan, Catherine Chang, Sharmila , Chaudhuri, Kar Kei (Bianca) Cheung, Thomas Chow, Robin Gill, Nicholas William Henderson, Jonathan Jones, Simon Kennedy, Ho Yin (Benjamin) Lam, Peter Gee Yee Lui, Anne Schroeli, Stefan Schulz-Rittich, Boris Zuber. |
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Diploma Unit 19 Instructors: Neil Spiller, Phil Watson 
Diploma Unit 19. Camargue Condensations by Shaun Murray We would like to set our sights on the future. The first thing to say is that we think we haven't even started fully mapping the spatial potentials of digital technology. Some argue for a new demystification caused by digital technology. The dumbing down of the ideas that embody these media is erroneous, and contributes to the lack of conceptual space in some of the oft-cited core ideas to what we do. In other words, thinking simply does not do this technology justice, talking about it as a normal part of architecture's corporate justification sophism lulls the public into a false sense of security. Featuring: Stuart Munro, Shaun Murray. |
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Diploma Unit 20 Instructors: Salvador Perez Arroyo, Marcos Cruz 
Diploma Unit 20. Camargue Condensations by Shaun Murray Unit 20 is interested in crossing boundaries of the traditional architectural practice, developing innovative conditions in architecture. By looking into advances in a wide range of sciences and art, each student is encouraged to develop an individual field of interest, which will then develop into a one or two year research programme. Bio-medics, extropianism, small-scaled intelligence, light structures, material engineering. Objects in our daily life should be under reconsideration. Architecture is built up by many different strata, scientific knowledge, micro-world and objects. Some of these themes will be discussed in the unit. Mobility, time, speed, movement, periodical reproduction, random connection can link objects and scale. Featuring: Angeliki Anagnostopoulou, Ilana Brilovich, Sirichai Bunchua, Miklos Deri, Fidan Erdal, Jason Kur Park Fung, Christian Hoeller, Chun Yu Lau, Shao Jun (Gwen) Lee, Joe Ting Chuen Lo, Simon Roberts, Andrew Shaw, Galit Tandet, Hui Hui Teoh, Benjamin Guy Thomas, Keith Watson, Martyn Weaver, Samuel White, Kin Him (Kevin) Yiu. |
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Diploma Unit 21 Instructors: Christine Hawley, cj Lim 
Diploma Unit 21. Money Garden by Matthew Thornley This unit specialises in intensely researched and studied detail design. Our fascination with the idea of threshold is not the physical frame through which one might enter or exit, but the almost imperceptible line that is traced through areas that emerge with often different qualities. How conscious are we of edges and boundaries and what do they tell us? Are we sufficiently sensitive to understand what creates these subtle variations in the urban condition? Featuring: Andrew Stanforth, Matt Thornley. |
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