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and Interdisciplinary
Studies (AIS)
2014-15
The course information sheet below includes
details of the structure of the course, FAQs and
application information.
Contents
Overview 3
Structure 4
Content 5
Staff 9
Opportunities 9
Applying 16
Entry requirements
17
FAQs 18
overview
BSc AIS introduces students to key architectural ideas and spatial strategies
through a range of customised courses. Some of these are shared with
BSc Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1) and some are specific to BSc AIS. The
programme aims to incorporate activity-based learning through research
and creative practice components, which explore media, objects, and
representational modes of architecture (text, models, drawings, film, software,
or any combination of these) and develops skills in the use of these media.
There is also an emphasis on onsite learning supported by study visits and an
annual field trip.
The programme provides students with the necessary intellectual and
practical skills to engage with architecture and the city in an increasingly
globalised age, allowing them to consider how identity, cultural values,
economics and environmental concerns shape and are shaped by the built
environment. These ongoing processes will be explored not only through the
disciplinary tools of architecture (though these remain a focus), but also those
from other disciplines from art history to anthropology to management, where
appropriate.
structure
Interdisciplinarity/Flexibility
The BSc AIS offers a specialism in architecture without the constraints
of ARB/RIBA Part 1 requirements. A very wide range of options can be
selected from other UCL departments and a high degree of customisation
is possible within ones chosen path. Popular departments for the selection
of modules include: Anthropology, Art History, Archaeology, Centre for
International Health and Development, Economics, European Languages
Society and Culture, Geography, History, Languages (Arabic, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish), Management, and
Psychology.
Educational Environment
BSc AIS is a select, friendly programme with a dedicated and experienced
teaching team. We usually have 25-35 students in total which allows for
close interaction with tutors through regular meetings and tutorials, and
helps foster a stimulating and creative environment. The BSc AIS also
offers students an opportunity to be immersed in the wider architectural
culture of The Bartlett, the UKs top-rated Architectural School. Students
participate in The Bartletts Annual Student Show and may take
advantage of the full range of evening lectures and exhibitions at The
Bartlett, UCL, and in London.
60% of students selected modules come from within The Bartlett Faculty of
the Built Environment (Architecture, Planning, and Construction Management),
while the remaining 40% can be made up of electives from any other UCL
department of their choice.
Content for both the 3-year and the 4-year versions of BSc AIS are the same,
except that in Year 3, students on the year abroad programme spend the year
away. While there are no core subjects in Years 1 and 2, it is expected that
students will all take the following courses:
Year 1
ENVS 1001
0.5cu
ENVS 1026
0.5cu
ENVS 1027
0.5cu
ENVS 1028
Architectural Research I
0.5cu
Min
0.5cu
Max
1.5cu
TOTAL
(cu= course units)
4cu
Year 2
ENVS 2034
0.5cu
ENVS 2037
1cu
ENVS 2046
Architectural Research II
0.5cu
0.5cu
Min
0.5cu
Max
1.5cu
TOTAL
4cu
1cu
ENVS 3021
1cu
ENVS 2046
Architectural Research II
0.5cu
ENVS 3032
1cu
/1.5cu
Min
Max 1.5cu
TOTAL
1 to
1.5cu
4cu
Note:
content
It is compulsory to take either ENVS 3020 or 3032. (Students may also opt
to take both.)
In Year 3, 3 out of 4cu must be Advanced courses.
The BSc AIS aims to produce graduates who have an ability to think
relationally, and to understand the importance of context (of different
disciplines, cultures, and environments). This is central to the BSc AISs
philosophy and is the key to addressing the challenges of the 21st century
sustainability, intercultural interaction, well being, and global health.
At the heart of BSc AIS programme is its specially tailored courses in Design
and Creative Practice (Project X) and Architectural Research. These are
offered from Year 1 in order to provide general and subject-specific skills
development for future study and employment, including:
Year 1
ENVS 1026 Architectural Media: Looking, making, and communicating (0.5cu;
Term 1)
Module Coordinators: Joel Cady, j.cady@ucl.ac.uk; Frosso Pimenides,
f.pimenides@ucl.ac.uk
Architectural Media offers an introduction to skills used in the understanding,
construction and representation of design proposals and architectural ideas.
The module is taught through a mixture of lectures, practical workshops, and
tutorials. You will be taught alongside first year architecture students and will
be encouraged to develop a wide range of drawing and making skills including
analytical sketching, sectional drawing, casting and soldering. As the module
progresses, you will use these skills to develop a portfolio based on your
own personal or academic interests. This portfolio will form the basis of the
assessment for the module.
Year 2
ENVS 2037 Project X for Architectural Studies Year 2 (1cu; Terms 1-3)*
Module Coordinator: Chee Kit Lai, chee.lai@ucl.ac.uk
Project X for Architectural Studies Year 2 module, is part of a unique suite of
design and creative practice modules on the Architectural & Interdisciplinary
Studies programme that enables each student to develop an understanding
of, and an individual approach to, design and creative practice, with particular
reference to the context of an architectural education. In Year 2 we encourage
students to approach their creative practice in a highly speculative manner.
It is an opportunity to research and explore a wide range of current creative
and design practices and to experiment with many media, with the intention
that they can begin to form a distinct and individual approach to their own
creative practice.
Year 3
ENVS 3020 Dissertation in Architectural Studies (1cu; Terms 1-3)
Module Coordinator: Dr Brent Pilkey, b.pilkey@ucl.ac.uk
The Dissertation in Architectural & Interdisciplinary Studies enables a student
to undertake an independent research project into an architectural subject
that he or she has identified and wish to explore in greater depth. The
emphasis in this module is on conducting original research and producing
investigative in-depth written studies, supported by appropriate visual
documentation. In addition, there will be a focus on writing as an iterative
process.
STaff
Programme Leaders:
Elizabeth Dow, e.dow@ucl.ac.uk (responsible for overall coordination of Project
X Years 1-3)
Dr Barbara Penner, b.penner@ucl.ac.uk (responsible for overall coordination
of Architectural Research/Dissertation Years 1-3)
Module Coordinators:
Kevin Green, kevin.green@ucl.ac.uk
Chee Kit Lai, chee.lai@ucl.ac.uk
Dr. Brent Pilkey, b.pilkey@ucl.ac.uk
Freddy Tuppen, samuel.tuppen.10@alumni.ucl.ac.uk
In addition, external lecturers and critics regularly contribute talks and
workshops to the programme. Recent contributs have included:
OPPORTUNITIES
accounting
academia
arts education and management/curating
business start-ups
charity work
conservation
construction management
design
documentary film-making
education
fine arts
heritage
international health and development
journalism
landscape architecture
law
lighting design
marketing, media and communications
museum management
NGOs
photography
planning
property valuation
publishing
set design
surveying
zoo management
Internships
Prizes/Projects
has been the multidisciplinary approach to solutions that I was taught and
learnt while studying.
In this increasingly focused and competitive market, there is a temptation
to specialise, often at the expense of ones own interests and at the risk
of limiting ones unique offering. With AS there is a rare opportunity to
experiment while also specialising to explore the diversity of world-class
courses and departments that UCL possesses, all the while being housed
within the legendary Bartlett.
I am a designer at my core but I have a love and appreciation of science and
languages. It is hard to beat The Bartlett environment for sheer design and
creative excellence, and the main AS courses provided me with the best of
this. I designed buildings, books and installations, took photos, made films
and wrote dissertations. But I also had a chance to study Spanish (to business
level), anthropology, sustainability and urbanism. If there was ever a chance
to have your cake and eat it, AS is it!
Lynne Holtum, 2007, Fitzrovia Construction Ltd, MSc Building Surveying
I think the fact that Architectural Studies allows you to tailor your degree to
your interests and desired directions was its most important aspect. In my
career so far it is easy to see how the breadth of knowledge I gained has
been useful. Though this knowledge may not be at as dense a level as a more
concentrated discipline would provide, my introduction to different subjects
means that when I have encountered similar circumstances at work I have
been able to recognise this and further my understanding from there. Also the
openness of the dissertation module gave me an opportunity to learn about
a subject in which I had a great interest, and turned it from an interest into
something about which I am passionate.
Rupert Muldoon, 2004, Painter and Landscape Architect (www.rupertmuldoon.
com)
After my first year at The Bartlett, I chose to leave the more conventional
architecture route as Architectural Studies offered me a chance to decide
upon my own course of studies within the different departments at UCL. At
The Bartlett I concentrated on the history and theory of architecture and
was encouraged to explore my personal interests. I became engrossed in
landscape as art and the relationship between art within landscape.
In the History of Art department I specialised in the Conservation and
Restoration of Easel Paintings, which had a strong influence on my own
painting.
Following university I have experienced a wide range of activities relevant to
my degree and other interests, which have enabled me to cross boundaries
between art and design and also to experience them in a commercial context.
I have continued to paint, exhibiting successfully in London, with a solo show
on Bond Street in 2011.
In 2009 I completed my MA in Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. I stayed
in Switzerland for a further year to work within a landscape architecture
practice that has a global perspective and a strong emphasis upon artistic
conceptual principles and practical design skills. Landscape is a new-found
scale of working for me. It is one continuous mass and must be approach with
the holistic view of an artist. What I am most fascinated by as an artist and a
designer is the identity of a place.
Satu Streatfield, 2005, Designer working with light
The philosophy and ethos behind the Architectural Studies degree is one that
any genuinely creative degree programme at university level should aspire
to. The course supports students in the pursuit and development of their
own creative and critical voice, encouraging them to continually refine and
criticise their chosen methods of space creation and representation. My time
on the course was definitely the most liberating, challenging, enlightening,
stimulating and definitive of my education. I am still passionate about the
concepts and theories that I explored for my dissertation and Project X
and am eternally grateful for the encouragement, criticism, knowledge and
inspiration of the course tutors and the specialist tutors they brought in.
My two years on the course paved my way to a job where Im practicing the
very things that I fell in love with on the AS course - using ephemeral media
to create and augment space. I work in an inspiring and internationally
well-respected team that uses light to create spaces that can morph from
being intimate to beautiful to awesome to uncomfortable to intimidating and
back again in a matter of minutes. I work with a medium capable of evoking
sleep as well as stimulation, one which can soothe as well as cause pain, can
reveal space, define and redefine it or make it disappear. During the past
four years Ive worked in the UK and abroad on urban strategies, landscapes,
cultural centres, heritage sites, public buildings and squares, skyscrapers,
sculptures, art installations and present and future landmarks. I have lectured
internationally and genuinely love what I do and am sure it would have taken
many more years to get here without my AS degree.
Freddy Tuppen, 2009, Artist and Co-Founder of ADA (www.adaprojects.co.uk)
During my two years spent on the Architectural Studies course I was able to
develop a range of interests in fields related to architecture, whilst keeping
open many possible avenues to explore once graduating. It was a difficult
decision to move into AS having realised that BSc Arch was not where I saw
my future but having decided to go for it there have been no regrets.
In Project X, I led an in depth study into our experience of architectural
space through sound. This culminated in a series of live, interactive sound
installations that have subsequently been show in exhibitions in London and
New York. I have just finished the first of two years on the MFA Media course
at the Slade School of Art where I am expanding upon the themes I began to
consider at The Bartlett.
Since leaving the AS course there have also been opportunities to continue
my architectural practice in a variety of forms, such as building the interior of
a caf on Store Street and winning a commission for a large scale installation
at Liverpool University. With another AS student, Kevin Green, I founded
ADA in 2012, a London-based initiative composed of three core elements:
a programme for young individuals wishing to pursue studies in the arts; a
forum for ambitious collaborative projects; and a public events programme.
The group of teaching associates is composed of artists, architects, writers,
filmmakers and theorists with wide-ranging interests who cooperate to
cultivate an environment for the sharing of knowledge and skills.
There are numerous varied and exciting options for a Bartlett student other
that an RIBA qualification and the AS course encourages students to develop a
broader spectrum of specific interests, providing opportunities that few other
courses can offer.
Alexia Vasilikou, 2005, Press Officer, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Spending a few years as a student of the Bartlett was the first step towards
shaping a creative way of thinking. The AS course opened up so many
possibilities for me. Most important of all are the people that make the AS
course. All tutors showed a great amount of dedication, treating each student
on a one-to-one basis, and taking a close look into each ones strengths, needs
and potential. Guiding and at the same time setting free.
The opportunity to attend modules within other departments of UCL was an
enlightening experience, understanding the great quality and ethos of UCL
at its full extent. And also getting the chance to meet people with diverse
interests and become acquainted with a variety of academic fields. A way to
find out what suits one best.
During my studies on the AS course, I discovered my passion for art and
realised I would be spending my future years working in the cultural sector.
Following an MA in Arts Management, I have been working at the Museum
of Cycladic Art for three years, in the Communication and Development
Department.
Olivia Wodehouse, 2005, Property Investment and Development Surveyor,
Knight Frank
The Architectural Studies course at the Bartlett gave me the ability and
freedom to explore architectural ideas through a different medium. Each
project could take on the form you desired rather than being restricted to
creating physical spaces. The final products that were generated over the
course of the year were surprising and diverse and yet each one had a
definite affinity to architecture. I enjoyed the strong interaction between other
students and tutors, and the encouragement to follow ideas and really test
them.
Since graduating from the Bartlett I have gone on to complete a masters in
property valuation and law at Cass Business School and joined the graduate
scheme at Knight Frank. My role now involves consulting on potential
development schemes in the city and working closely alongside architects. My
love of architecture is still strong and I enjoy the tangible way in which I can
include this in both my career my personal life.
Jenni Young, 2008, Architectural Writer and Editor, Italy
When I first chose to study architecture I was attracted by the possibility
of mixing both art and science but, as someone who couldnt restrain the
number of subjects they were interested in, I felt I was missing out on
something during the two years I studied BSc Architecture. When I looked
at the Architectural Studies program, I suddenly felt I had found what I had
been missing; there are so many subjects that influence and are affected by
architecture and design. During my time on the AS course I divided my time
between planning, anthropology, history of art, and management. I developed
a strong interest in anthropology, of which I had not had any previous
experience, and had a chance to take modules in other top-class departments
at UCL on, for example, the Anthropology of Architecture and the Social
Construction of Landscape.
I developed a focus on the experience of architecture and the individuals
relationship with the built environment, and I used what I was learning in
the different departments to drive my own interests through my essays and
final dissertation. A key part of the course was Project X. I was, and still am,
interested in writing and architecture, and PX was where I could explore these
ideas without the constriction of having to write an essay or design a building.
I am now working for an innovative architecture practice in Italy, which
focuses on the way we understand and interact with cities, and I still
contribute to the design table in a diverse number of ways, including
writing and editing articles for the architectural press. The experiences I
have had have been fantastic and I believe the opportunities I have been
offered are due to the range of skills I developed through such a formidable
multidisciplinary education. One thing hasnt changed since my time at the
Bartlett: I am still involved with those striving to be at the cutting-edge of
architecture - its a very inspiring place.
Applying
For currently
enrolled BSc
Architecture
students
How to Transfer
BSc AIS is open to students who have already completed one year of BSc
Architecture, Planning or Construction Management and have passed three
course units. Students may also enter the course in Year 2 or Year 3 if a total
of seven course units have been passed. [Please note: you do not need to
recommence at Year 1.]
Transfer students from other universities have also been accepted in the
past. Please note, however, that you need to have successfully completed
one full year of study at your home institution, preferably in a department of
architecture, with a minimum of a 2:1 for us to consider your application.
When to Transfer
Students must first discuss the possibility of a transfer with their unit tutor
and/or BSc Architecture Programme Leaders and the BSc AIS Programme
Leaders, Barbara Penner and/or Elizabeth Dow (e.dow@ucl.ac.uk). The decision
to transfer can be made at any time before the academic year begins. Once
term is underway, Year 2 or 3 students can also consider switching at the very
end of Term 1.
Once you have obtained the agreement of the relevant programme leaders,
the transfer process itself is easy - it only requires the completion of a Change
of Degree Programme Form.
entry requirements
A Levels
Grades
AAB
Subjects
Art required. A portfolio is required at a secondary stage in the application
process. Applicants who meet the A level grade requirements of AAB but
have not studied A level Art, may offer an art and design foundation year
as proof of their ability.
AS Levels
For UK-based students a pass in a further subject at AS level or equivalent
is required.
GCSEs
English Language and Mathematics at grade C. For UK-based students,
a grade C or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek,
Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL provides opportunities to meet
the foreign language requirement following enrolment.
IB Diploma
Points
36
Subjects A score of 17 points in three higher level subjects including
Art, with no score lower than 5. A portfolio is required at a secondary
stage in the application process. Applicants who meet the IB Diploma
points score of 17 in three higher level subjects but have not studied IB
Diploma Art, may offer an art and design foundation year as proof of their
ability.
FAQs
Please contact the BSc Architecture Admissions Tutor, Ms Sabine Storp for
further information about the accredited course s.storp@ucl.ac.uk
I cannot attend the UCL Open Day. Can I visit The Bartlett during term
time to speak to current students and staff?
We do understand that deciding on a particular university programme
is a ma jor decision and if there is a very good reason for why you are
unable to attend an Open Day (for instance, you are from overseas) and
you are a serious applicant for BSc AIS, we will try to make alternate
accommodations to meet with you. Please note: we are unable to respond
to questions to do with BSc Architecture. If that is your focus, please
contact our BSc Architecture Admissions Tutor, Ms Sabine Storp [insert
Sabines e-mail here: s.storp@ucl.ac.uk]
I do have an interest in architecture but I dont do art for the full two years
at my school, what can I do? My school did not offer art at IB.
Please consider entering an art foundation at a local art school or college.
State clearly in your personal statement that you will apply for a deferred
entry. If you get an offer, this offer will be a conditional offer based on the
successful completion of your foundation.
our experience students with a gap year have a very different and more
mature attitude towards their work.
Once Ive started my BSc AIS degree can I transfer to the BSc Architecture
degree?
No, not without restarting your studies, as the BSc AIS course modules do
not exactly map onto the professional criteria required by the ARB/RIBA.
If you wish to be an RIBA-qualified architect you must enroll on the BSc
Architecture degree in Year 1.
Once Ive started my BSc Architecture degree can I transfer to the BSc
AIS?
Yes. Though there is no automatic right of transfer, we will consider
allowing Year 1 BSc Architecture students to transfer onto Year 1 BSc AIS
as we do not have the same constraints in terms of professional criteria. If
you transfer before the end of Term 1, you do not need to restart Year 1.
It is more usual, however, for students in BSc Architecture to transfer in
BSc AIS once they have completed their first year and have passed a
minimum of three course units. Students may also enter the course in Year
2 or Year 3 if a total of seven course units have been passed.
There is no automatic right to transfer, but approximately three to five
students are accepted for transfer each year.
departments who would like to take them as electives. If you are a UCL
student from another department or an affiliate student, please contact
the module coordinator directly to ask for permission to attend as well as
registering on PORTICO. Acceptance is not automatic and your module
selection will not be approved unless you speak to us first. If it is a design
and creative practice course that interests you, we may well also request
that you come in for an interview with a portfolio.
Please note that all of our modules are potentially available, however, we
offer one option, ENVS 2041 Architectural Studies: Creative Design Project
(0.5cu; Term 1), specifically for affiliates.