MArch Graduate Gallery, 2013

In the second MArch year (year five of overall architecture study) students explore specific individual interests with the objective of developing their personal direction at the outset of their careers. The first semester begins with a design project, the intention of this module is for the students to develop a set of their own design criteria and principles in order to test them in proposals. 

The second half of year five is entirely taken up by the student’s final project, the thesis design. The design thesis forms the culmination of a two-year process in which students will have undertaken various investigations into urban and architectural scale and form, advanced building technology and statutory requirements as well as the cultural context of architecture. By this point the aim is for each student to have developed an architectural position based on a solid understanding of current urban and architectural issues and the developments that historically informed these.

Jack Dunne