Bartlett School of Architecture UCL

Are you interested in studying architectural design?

Future Architecture is a brand new postgraduate summer course, launching this August, conceived as an introduction to architectural design.

During the three-week programme, participants will explore how architecture intersects with their existing expertise and bring fresh perspectives to the discipline. They will develop essential skills and delve into creative methodologies that engage with racial, spatial, and climate justice, highlighting their fundamental role in architectural education and the development of a more equitable and sustainable built environment.

The course runs from 04 – 22 August 2025. It is open to anyone over 18 interested in studying Architectural Design at postgraduate level, and is ideal for anyone considering a career change into architecture.

Find out more and apply: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/study/short-courses/future-architecture

This summer The Bartlett will host a short course for students looking to progress into a Landscape Architecture pathway. Through a design and production led approach, our Creative Terrain Short Course aims to address sustainability and deal with real-world challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate change and ecological crisis.

Designed as a gateway into our popular Landscape Architecture MA and MLA programmes, this course runs from 21 – 25 July 2025 and is open to anyone over 18 looking for an introduction to Landscape Architecture.

Find out more and apply: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/study/short-courses/creative-terrain

A new report, Healthy Homes For All, proposes an evidence-based model of low-energy, affordable, healthy and sustainable housing.

The report was co-authored by Prof Murray Fraser and Prof Rosalind Raine (UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences / Director of NIHR ARC North Thames) with The Bartlett's Nicholas Jewell. Developed for UCL’s Grand Challenges initiative, it showcases a sustainable model to mitigate health inequalities, homelessness and climate change.

Read more: https://www.arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-events/2025/feb-2025/designing-a-prototype-for-healthier-social-housing/
Read the report at Issuu: https://issuu.com/bartlettarchucl/docs/healthy_homes_for_all

Tomorrow: The Obsolescence of Mankind
Part of a new lecture series: Enlarging The Computational Spectrum

Curated by Dr Philippe Morel and Elly Selby, Enlarging the Computational Spectrum is a lecture series dedicated to uncovering the profound and evolving consequences of computation and AI in contemporary and 20th-century architectural and artistic practice, and technology.

Join us tomorrow as architect and editor Ludovico Centis confronts a new paradigm of non-graduality - events that exceed what we consider plausible, out of scale both in psychological and cultural terms. His lecture deals with the 20th century advent of atomic power, and addresses two issues: the overwhelming and runaway role of technology in our lives, and how the Manhattan project introduced this new paradigm to scientific thought.

🗓️ 14:00, Wednesday 05 March
📍 Room G.12, 22 Gordon Street and online

Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/mar/enlarging-computational-spectrum

Save The Date: The Bartlett Summer Show 2025

Over 1000 students from across multiple year groups and programmes at The Bartlett School of Architecture will exhibit design projects on campus and online in our flagship architecture show, from Thursday 26 June to Sunday 13 July.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/news/2025/feb/save-date-bartlett-summer-show-2025

PhD Research Projects: Gathering through Gathering
19:15–20:15, Tuesday 04 March
Room G.03, 22 Gordon Street

As part of the PhD Research Projects 2025 exhibition, join us next week for a performance bringing together eight dinner guests to mimic a communal dinner originally held at Nyah Lasem, a community-based museum in Java’s port town of Lasem. The project is a part of Feysa Poetry's 'Dismantling the Mistress’s House' research, currently on display at the exhibition.

The performance challenges how museums present lived experiences, often catering to external audiences, by rethinking how stories are shared, curated, then told – by whom, and for whom.

The act of cooking and sharing food becomes both a performance and a mode of translation. Recipes passed down through generations will be interpreted, reimagined and reproduced as part of the event, served not only to the dining performers but also to the audience – transforming food into a vessel for memory, dialogue and participation.

Please note, to avoid disruption to the performance, there will be no late admittance.

Image: Gathering through Gathering in Dismantling the Mistress's House, by Feysa Poetry, 2025

Find out more and participate: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/mar/phd-research-projects-gathering-through-gathering

Today, 16:00: Rebuilding Urban Complexity: A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities

In today's online Space Syntax Lab Seminar, Dr Francesca Froy will launch her new book, Rebuilding Urban Complexity: A Configurational Approach to Post-Industrial Cities, analysing on how urban complexity evolves and is destroyed.

The book situates space syntax analysis within a broader exploration of urban complexity, highlighting the interdependent structures that underpin cities, where diverse “parts” (such as people, streets, and industry sectors) interact to form an evolving “whole.” Dr Froy examines the evolution and destruction of complexity in Greater Manchester as well as other post-industrial British cities.

Find out more and register on Zoom to join: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/feb/space-syntax-lab-seminars-2024-25

Don't miss the penultimate CRUNCH seminar of this series: Documenting Colonial Toxicity.

Samia Henni explores France's nuclear weapons testing programme in colonial Algeria through archival research and exhibition making. Chaired by Edward Denison with responses from artist Jananne Al-Ani.

Samia Henni is a historian and exhibition maker focused on built, destroyed, and imagined environments. She is the author of 'Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria' and 'Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara'.

🗓️ 18:30–20:00, Monday 03 March
📍 Room G.12, 22 Gordon Street

Please arrive promptly: entry is first-come-first-served and there will be no admittance after 18:40.

Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/mar/crunch-documenting-colonial-toxicity

The Intelligent Workplace: Human and Cyber Workplace Interaction in Hybrid and Liquid Environments

A new international research partnership between The Bartlett and Tohuku University will explore how AI, XR and workplace design can shape the future of hybrid workspaces to enhance wellbeing and productivity.

Professor Ava Fatah gen. Schieck will lead the partnership on The Bartlett's side, with Associate Professor Kazuyuki Fujita (Research Institute of Electrical Communication) will lead the Tohuku team.

Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/node/42218

What do we do about the material history of industrial capitalism in the age of climate crisis and posthuman futuring?

CRUNCH: Odd Couple: ‘Post’ Industrial Architecture and ‘Post’ Human Futures

Historians care about the past as well as the present, but the history of industrialisation and its buildings often reads like a tale of woe with little positive contemporary relevance.

In the wake of completing a history of industrial architecture, Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty) assesses the relevance of the subject today, when the term ‘post-industrial’ is unavailable to those for whom assembly-line labour continues apace but promises gentrification for many others.

🗓️ 18:30–20:00, Monday 24 February
📍 G.12, Ground Floor, 22 Gordon Street

Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/feb/crunch-odd-couple-post-industrial-architecture-and-post-human-futures

Apply for Architecture MArch at The Bartlett by Friday 28 February!

The Bartlett’s Architecture MArch degree is a leading, professionally accredited Part 2 programme that challenges students to explore what architecture is – and what it could be.

With a unique teaching approach, structured learning, and valuable industry networking opportunities – including our renowned annual graduate showcase – this programme offers students an unparalleled experience.

Apply now for September 2025 entry: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/architecture

Image: 'Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?' by Zuzanna Maria Rostocka, Architecture MArch, PG25, Year 4

The 19th PhD Research Projects 2025 launches in less than two weeks!

We hope you'll join us for our annual doctoral conference and exhibition, conceived to ignite and encourage discussions between students, staff, invited guests, critics and the public about research at The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Conference: 09:00 – 18:00, 25 February, Room 6.02, 22 Gordon Street
Exhibition: 25 February – 11 March, ground floor galleries, 22 Gordon Street

The exhibition showcases doctoral research in development or concluding phases.

The one-day conference is open to the public and features presentations by doctoral students, followed by discussions of their questions, methods and findings.

Including respondents:
► Professor Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty)
► Professor Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin)
► Professor Arunava Dasgupta (School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi)
► Dr Amy Thomas (Delft University of Technology)
► Dr Michael Weinstock (Architectural Association)
► Dr Filipa Matos Wunderlich (The Bartlett School of Planning UCL)

All free to attend. Find out more and register:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/feb/phd-research-projects-2025-conference-and-exhibition

Tonight: join architect Michael Smith-Masis, Director of the Entre Nos Atelier Central Office, for a thought-provoking lecture exploring how design and architecture challenge sustainability, embrace transdisciplinary approaches, and promote regenerative, environmentally just spaces that honour the human experience.

With respondent Nuria Alvarez (The Bartlett) and chair Joana Gonçalves (The Bartlett).

🗓️ 18:00–19:30, 13 February
📍 Room 6.02, 22 Gordon Street

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/feb/architecture-excuse-social-agency-spatial-justice-and-regenerative-design

Thinking about a Master's degree at The Bartlett School of Architecture?

Join us for a series of upcoming virtual open events from the following courses:
⭐ Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) MArch/MSc
⭐ Architecture & Historic Urban Environments MA
⭐ Landscape Architecture MA/MLA
⭐ Space Syntax: Architecture & Cities MSc/MRes

These sessions are a great opportunity – especially for international students – to connect directly with programme teams, explore course details, and get advice on the application process.

Find out more and register: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025/feb/postgraduate-virtual-information-sessions

Tomorrow: the Bartlett Society and Bartlett Urban Planning Society present Beyond the Skyline - Crafting Distinctive and Delightful Cityscape

🗓️ 10am, Tuesday 11 February
📍 IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society - John Adams Hall, G27

Professor Cheong Koon Hean (Singapore University of Technology and Design) charts the impact of laissez-faire economics on architecture and city planning, and the call for more active intervention in the public realm.

Beyond the Skyline: Crafting Distinctive and Delightful Cityscape Bartlett Society x Bartlett Urban Planning Society Event with Guest Speaker: Professor Cheong Koon Hean

Tonight's CRUNCH seminar has been moved to a larger room - please note the new details below.

Noura Al Sayeh and Anne Holtrop reflect on 10 years of architectural practice in Bahrain, exploring the intersection of conservation, cultural heritage and contemporary design, in conversation with Professor Murray Fraser.

🗓️ 18:30–20:00, Monday 10 February
📍 Room XLG1, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon Street

Early arrival is encouraged to guarantee entry. Doors will close at 18:40 after the talk begins.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/feb/crunch-works-bahrain

Launching this month: PhD Research Projects 2025
25 February – 11 March

The nineteenth annual PhD conference and exhibition is an interdisciplinary exploration of the developing research of doctoral students at The Bartlett School of Architecture. This year, for the first time, the event will feature contributions from students across all five doctoral streams: Architectural Design, Architectural & Urban History & Theory, Architectural Space & Computation, Architecture & Digital Theory and Architectural Practice.

Visit the show at 22 Gordon Street, and register for the one-day conference on 25 February.

Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2025/feb/phd-research-projects-2025-conference-and-exhibition

Images:
1. Disobedient Dollhouse No.1 by Daniel Ovalle Costal, 2023 (Photograph: Sophie Percival); Architectural Design PhD
2. 'Dismantling The Mistress’s House'. Archive and Collection: Museum Nyah Lasem, Lasem Heritage Foundation, 2024. Collage Credit: Feysa Poetry, 2024; Architectural Practice PhD
3. Dynamic Cellular Automata structures illuminated to reveal the interplay of complexity and self-organisation in an adaptively woven digital architectural space. By Alberto Fernandez Gonzalez; Architecture and Digital Theory PhD
4. Implementation of a 2D trail path for termites using 100,000 virtual agents, by Abdulkadir Kacan; Architectural Space and Computation PhD
5. Rutamekan Padramedram, a 91-year-old hunter is interviewed about his memories of Kapiuman (the abandoned village site of Piuma) through the maps and drawings he created. By Te-Chen Lu; Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD