Overview

The Architecture from Leeds Beckett University offers highly experimental design approaches to architecture and urban design and has two pathways to choose from: MA Architecture Speculative Futures and MA Architecture Future Cities.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Conduct practice-based and design-led research
• Re-imagine new modes of production in architecture, urban design and planning
• Combine insights from architecture, urban design, ecology, and emerging technologies to respond to complex global issues using innovative interdisciplinary methods
• Explore speculative and environmentally responsive design to enhance your future design practice
• Create innovative methodologies by using cutting-edge digital technologies
• Address current and future challenges through forward-thinking, sustainable, and visionary urban and architectural solutions
• Reflect on urban and architectural phenomena while investigating relevant theories, histories, cultures and societies
• Design resilient and environmentally conscious projects that tackle complex global issues
• Advance your expertise in sustainable architecture and ecological responsibility
• Develop original, evidence-based design solutions and lead research-driven projects across diverse scales and contexts
• Engage with urban design and planning challenges to reimagine inclusive, sustainable urban spaces that adapt to future demands (MA Architecture Future Cities)

• Expand your thinking, pushing the boundaries of conventional architecture while addressing social, cultural, political, economic, environmental and emerging technological challenges (MA Architecture Speculative Futures)

Career opportunities:

This course equips you with leadership and professional practice skills, fostering ethical awareness and responsibility. It will help you advance your knowledge and skills in architecture and urban design, and you could go on to specialise in:

• Architecture
• Urban design and planning
• Sustainable and environmental design
• Landscape design
• Interior architecture and interior design
• Contemporary theories
• Advanced digital technologies
• Film, animation and game

Upon graduation, you may seek to further your education to PhD level with the intention of entering an academic career. Alternatively, you could look for new forms of inter-disciplinary practice beyond traditional modes in architecture and urban design/planning.