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Architecture
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Architects and the designers of our surroundings are the driving force behind the design and development of our built environment. Whether they are designing new buildings, giving a new lease of life to existing ones, developing urban spaces, landscapes or contemporary interiors, architects have a profound influence on all our lives.
The Kent School of Architecture (KSA) offers a two-year full-time ‘professional' Master of Architecture (March) which gives exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 2 on completion, but, for entry, requires exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 1; and a taught Master in Architecture and Cities. The School also offers a research degree programme (Mphil/PhD) and a taught MA in Architectural Visualisation, which is run in collaboration with the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. These programmes also benefit from expertise in urban studies within other schools at Kent.
School staff have design expertise and specialist knowledge; they are at the forefront of current architectural issues, including sustainability, technology, professional practice and research.
Professional links
The School has excellent contacts with businesses and culture in the local area, including regional organisations such as the Kent Architecture Centre, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Kent County Council and Kent Design Initiative. The Sustainable Communities Plan is particularly strong in south-east England, making the region the ideal place in which to debate innovative solutions to architectural issues.
Kent also has excellent links with schools of architecture in Lille, Bruges, Rome, Bauhaus- Dessau, and, in the USA, Virginia and California.
A wealth of experience
The School of Architecture has an enthusiastic team of academic staff with many years of teaching experience at degree level, and particular strengths in historical, environmental, technical and digital aspects of the subject. Many of our lecturers are highly active within contemporary debates and also draw on their experience as practitioners within the field. Academic study is complemented by a mentoring scheme organised in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and involving students in events with local practices.
AHRA Scale Conference In November 2010, the Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte) at the Kent School of Architecture hosted the 7th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference on the subject of ‘scale'. Speakers and delegates came from throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, and from as far as the Middle East, the Americas and the Antipodes.
Papers were presented by leading academics and professionals in their fields which addressed scale in the post-humanist age, in design practice, technology, psychology, sociology, literature and the arts.
The opening address was given by Sir David Chipperfield CBE (of David Chipperfield Architects), who was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Kent in November 2010.
Keynote speakers included Nathalie de Vries of MVRDV, based in the Netherlands; Hannah Higgins, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois; Robert Tavernor of the London School of Economics and architect Nathalie Rozencwajg of RARE, London and Paris.
Papers from the conference are due to be published by Routledge in Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture in autumn 2011.
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