Architecture Heriot-Watt University Dubai

Overview

The Master of Architecture (MArch) will enhance your appreciation of architecture as a design-led discipline, emphasising the latest technological advances and innovative sustainable solutions to current and future societal challenges within the built environment industry. Taught within state-of-the-art facilities for designing, the programme will be of interest to individuals possessing an undergraduate architectural degree and offers the opportunity to develop appropriate solutions to a range of global challenges. This degree will further complete your educational journey as an architect, and you’ll graduate suitably prepared to work professionally in the dynamic built environment industry.

During your studies you will:

• Conceive, resolve and execute sustainable architectural designs of varying scale and complexity, underpinned by creativity.
• Evaluate the physical, cultural and societal context within the process of place-making.
• Integrate aesthetic, compositional, spatial and functional principles to produce technically sound and environmentally sustainable projects.
• Critically analyse and research cultural, environmental and social values to produce effective and user-centred architectural outputs.
• Demonstrate climate literacy and ethical approaches to increase wellbeing through the design of innovative and energy-efficient buildings.
• Identify, evaluate and integrate appropriate materials, technologies, systems and construction processes for design proposals.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the legal frameworks necessary to protect current and future communities.
• Write, communicate and evaluate business plans and project outputs.

• Appraise architectural propositions individually and as part of a team.

Your student experience

This programme is also part of the Institute of Sustainable Built Environment, which conducts pioneering research aimed at driving technological innovation and shaping government policy on critical global challenges such as climate change, sustainable development, infrastructure provision, energy management, and digital transformation.