MArch Architectural Studies

Bourdon Building, 14 students

The Master of Architectural Studies is research and project driven providing multi-disciplinary input through a series of specialist pathways which include Urban Building, Urban Design, Creative Urban Practices, Digital Creativity, Energy and Environment, Zero Energy, Mass Customised Housing and History and Theory of the City.

Students are encouraged to work within the City of Glasgow and its environs, as these offer an ideal laboratory for studying architectural and urban design. The city is a living resource, bearing the characteristic morphological imprints it shares with its European counterparts but also those of the ubiquitous gridiron planned cities of North and South America. The varied legacies of the city’s medieval origins, 18th century extensions, dramatic 19th century expansion and post war decline together with the initiatives taken to secure its present recovery have all endowed the city with a wealth of not only source material for investigative study, but also in the diverse range of circumstances it offers for speculation on the future city.

The Individual Research Project is a culmination of 3 semesters work where students develop an architectural response to a self defined research question. Each body of work evidences the gathering, organisation, analysis, synthesis and deployment of data, research and theory, thus generating an original intellectual position, and a creative, responsive architectural proposal. Our graduates, showcased here, operate with professionalism, independence and self-direction in preparation for the start of their architectural career.

from Living within Walking: Community Accessibility through a Dual-Lens Approach: A 15-Minute City Analysis of Laurieston, Glasgow

from Living within Walking: Community Accessibility through a Dual-Lens Approach: A 15-Minute City Analysis of Laurieston, Glasgow

from Living within Walking: Community Accessibility through a Dual-Lens Approach: A 15-Minute City Analysis of Laurieston, Glasgow

from Living within Walking: Community Accessibility through a Dual-Lens Approach: A 15-Minute City Analysis of Laurieston, Glasgow

from Living within Walking: Community Accessibility through a Dual-Lens Approach: A 15-Minute City Analysis of Laurieston, Glasgow

from Echoes of Silence

from Echoes of Silence

from Echoes of Silence

from Echoes of Silence

from Echoes of Silence

from Her Gordon Street

from Her Gordon Street

from Anderston City Garden

from Anderston City Garden

from Project in the City: Weighing Up Sauchie! Exhibition

from Anderston City Garden

from Anderston City Garden

from Boundaryless Space

from Boundaryless Space

from Boundaryless Space

from Boundaryless Space

from Boundaryless Space

from “Clyde Connect: A Cultural Catalyst for Glasgow’s Riverside”

from “Clyde Connect: A Cultural Catalyst for Glasgow’s Riverside”

from “Clyde Connect: A Cultural Catalyst for Glasgow’s Riverside”

from “Clyde Connect: A Cultural Catalyst for Glasgow’s Riverside”

from “Clyde Connect: A Cultural Catalyst for Glasgow’s Riverside”

from Ethnic and Cultural Costumes Complex

from Ethnic and Cultural Costumes Complex

from Ethnic and Cultural Costumes Complex

from Ethnic and Cultural Costumes Complex

from Ethnic and Cultural Costumes Complex

from Children Dreamland-Children’s activity center

from Children Dreamland-Children’s activity center

from Children Dreamland-Children’s activity center

from Children Dreamland-Children’s activity center

from Children Dreamland-Children’s activity center

from IRP Project: SIMULATED MEMORY AND SPATIAL PERFORMANCE: REFRAMING THE GORBALS THROUGH A VERTICAL URBAN LENS

from IRP Project: SIMULATED MEMORY AND SPATIAL PERFORMANCE: REFRAMING THE GORBALS THROUGH A VERTICAL URBAN LENS

from IRP Project: SIMULATED MEMORY AND SPATIAL PERFORMANCE: REFRAMING THE GORBALS THROUGH A VERTICAL URBAN LENS

from IRP Project: SIMULATED MEMORY AND SPATIAL PERFORMANCE: REFRAMING THE GORBALS THROUGH A VERTICAL URBAN LENS

from IRP Project: SIMULATED MEMORY AND SPATIAL PERFORMANCE: REFRAMING THE GORBALS THROUGH A VERTICAL URBAN LENS

from Living with Water—Adaptive Design Along the River Clyde

from Living with Water—Adaptive Design Along the River Clyde

from Living with Water—Adaptive Design Along the River Clyde

from Living with Water—Adaptive Design Along the River Clyde

from Living with Water—Adaptive Design Along the River Clyde

from Growing social cohesion: urban agriculture at Dalmarnock, Glasgow

from Growing social cohesion: urban agriculture at Dalmarnock, Glasgow

from Youth Utopia

from Youth Utopia

from Youth Utopia

from Youth Utopia

from Youth Utopia