The design component aims to prepare students to work with different urban situations and agendas. For the main design project, individual students focus on one site of their choice, for the rest of the academic year. This focus allows very deep explorations of a range of scales and involved urban design issues. Students formulate objectives, briefs, programmes and spatial aspirations of their design work. In this Open Studio, students work on projects for exampl.

This is a selection of essay and thesis extracts from recent years. All MA Urban Design and Diploma students are requested to express their critical thoughts and creative imagination in written form. Each student choses her or his own subject to conduct independent research and writing. Following extracts are taken from works, which have been awarded a distinction.

This is what we do, a muf Manual London. From Cells To Cities, Planning and Design. Beck, Ulrich, Giddens Anthony and Lash Scott,. Reflexive Modernisation, Politics Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Biennale di Venezia, 10. Mostra Internazionale di Architectura, Cities Architecture and Society. Luis Jorge, The Aleph.

The MA Urban Design is organised in two parallel taught modules followed by the Thesis module. The first two modules, the urban design studio www. As well as the lecture and seminar series in urban theory www. The Thesis work consists of two parts. Students write and compile an 8000-10000 word document, where both critical design and theory invigorate each other. This allows each student to structure the work intellect.