Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London, GB, Masters, Housing & Urbanism

The H&U Programme engages architecture with 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 central role to play in this dynamic context, developing far-reaching strategies and generating new urban clusters and types. The programme focuses on understanding important changes in the contemporary urban condition and showing how architectural intelligence can support constructive responses 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 dissertation or design thesis which allows students to develop an extended and focused study synthesizing design and urban research.