Master of Architecture and Design - Applied Design in Architecture
- 2 years
- Duration
- 17,750 GBP/year
- Price
- Sept 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Oxford / United Kingdom
- Location
- Oxford Brookes University
- School
Program description
With the MArchD Applied Design in Architecture degree, you may improve your design abilities as an architect and select a distinctive design specialization to strengthen your portfolio.
This is a student-led course. This means that depending on the studios and courses you choose, you could have very diverse experiences.
Throughout this degree, you'll have the chance to specialize, molding the curriculum to fit your professional goals or hobbies in design.
With regard to the quality of both its research and education, Oxford Brookes University's School of Architecture has developed a solid international reputation. It is crucial in establishing the regional, national, and global agendas for design education and research.
Some of the top architects and thinkers in the field come to educate you as a result of the course's popularity.
The Architects Registration Board and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have both accredited our program (ARB). Moreover, the Board of Architects Malaysia has accredited it (LAM). RIBA/ARB Part 2 is provided in this course.
Program structure
Compulsory Modules
- Research Methods for Design (20 credits)
- Representation (10 credits)
- Management, Practice and Law 1 (10 credits)
- Advanced Technology for Design (30 credits)
- Advanced Architectural Design Representation and Realisation (50 credits)
- Conflict, Violence and Humanitarianism (20 credits)
- Working with Conflict: practical skills and strategies (10 credits)
- Refugees: Forced Migration, Protection and Humanitarianism (20 credits)
- Critical Inquiry Development and Emergencies: Theory and Policy (20 credits)
- Shelter After Disaster (20 credits)
- Disasters, Risk, Vulnerability and Climate Change (20 credits)
- Human Rights and Governance (20 credits)
- Humanitarian Action: responding to crises in 21 st Century (10 credits)
- Building Physics (20 credits)
- The Sustainable Built Environment (20 credits)
- Building Simulation and Design in Context (40 credits)
- Architecture, Culture and Tradition (20 credits)
- Regeneration and Development Project (30 credits)
- Applications in Regeneration (20 credits)
- Master Classes (10 credits)
- Urban Resilience (20 credits)
- Research-led Design I (40 credits)
- Research-led Design II (40 credits)
- Design Studio I (30 credits)
- Design Studio II (50 credits)
- Advanced Technology for Design (30 credits)
- Management, Practice and Law 2 (10 credits)
- Exhibition
Optional modules
- Programming and Partnerships (10 credits)
- Urban Design Studio I (10 credits)
- Urban Design Development Seminars (10 credits)
- Contemporary Approaches to Urban Design (30 credits)
- Urban Design in Challenging Contexts (30 credits)
Independent Study
- Independent Study (10 credits)
Price
- Tuition Fee - 17,750 GBP per year
Requirements for applicants
Specific Entry Requirements
- A 2.2+ undergraduate honours degree (or international equivalent), in Architecture / disicpline highly relevant to Architecture
English Language Requirements
- IELTS score of 6.5 overall with 6.0 in all components
About the university
The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.
Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.
Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.
In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).
