Master of Architecture (Central Saint Martins)
- 2 years
- Duration
- 30,890 GBP/year
- Price
- September
- Start
- June
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- London / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
The MArch: Architecture programme at Central Saint Martins critically questions the architect’s role in the face of climate and biodiversity crises, challenging the extractive systems that perpetuate social and environmental injustice. While providing a professional pathway to registration, it asks how architects can move from complicity to actively regenerating the environment.
Care and ethical awareness are central, shaping a pedagogy built on support, collaboration, empathy, and dialogue, and underpinning regenerative design methods that restore places and systems. The course breaks open dominant teaching practices by centring students’ lived experiences and subjectivity, creating inclusive spaces where race, gender, equity, and intersectionality inform design projects.
Through collaboration with local users, other disciplines, and external partners, the programme empowers human and non‑human stakeholders as active agents. Situated in an art school, it offers a rich, multidisciplinary environment for responding critically to these challenges through research, knowledge exchange, and design intervention.
Program structure
- Unit 1: Situated Modes of Engagement
- Unit 2: The Collaborative Unit
- Unit 3: Regenerative Construction
- Unit 4: Professional Spatial Practice (Industry Placement)
- Unit 5: Design for Planetary Care
- Unit 6: Situated Architectural Practice
- The working week
Price
Tuition fee:
- 30,890 GBP per year*
*Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.
You may need to cover additional costs which are not included in your tuition fees, such as materials and equipment specific to your course.
Requirements for applicants
The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
- An upper second class honours degree from an Architects Registration Board (ARB) prescribed course in architecture
- Or an equivalent EU / international qualification
- Or a professional qualification recognised as equivalent to an honours degree
And normally at least one year of relevant internship or, professional experience.
Exceptionally, applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered.
The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example. be demonstrated by:
- Related academic or work experience
- The quality of the personal statement
- A strong academic or other professional reference
- Or a combination of these factors.
Each application will be considered on its own merit, but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
English language requirements
- IELTS score of 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking
About the university
The University of the Arts London (UAL) produces and encourages the creativity essential for a better future. Its colleges have been at the forefront of innovative education since 1842, creating work with a lasting impact on people and the planet, driven by curiosity, imagination, and purpose.
London is fundamental to UAL's identity, providing a vital context where the university connects and exchanges ideas with individuals from all walks of life. Globally, its creative network influences education, culture, business, and society.
Through innovative research and creative instruction, UAL's faculty and staff bring fresh perspectives to education. The university enables students to build the careers they desire by working with them at every level - from pre-degree to postgraduate, and from short courses to online learning.
UAL's colleges
Ranked second in the world for art and design, UAL comprises six distinct colleges:
- Camberwell College of Arts
- Central Saint Martins
- Chelsea College of Arts
- London College of Communication
- London College of Fashion
- Wimbledon College of Arts
Together, they form a community of creatives, innovators, trailblazers, and storytellers, united in their mission to reimagine the future.
Courses in the visual arts, animation, screen, communication, fashion, media, and performance are available at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
