Program Overview

The MSc Global Housing Design offers an advanced architectural design graduate course in housing for future designers, policy makers and researchers. Through its unique research-led design curriculum, it offers a one year, three semester long programme focused on housing and cities.

The programme aims to negotiate the practical, theoretical, and speculative aspects of housing design, rethinking housing for future urbanities. It will prepare you to engage in ever more diverse and dynamic global landscapes in housing production, culture, and politics. You will learn various research methods to construct a critical overview of housing issues in different metropolitan contexts. An interdisciplinary approach and multi-scalar lens will lead you to re-envision the city, its housing types, its homes, and its inhabitants, as part of a system that is mutually and retroactively produced.

The programme is underpinned by a strong professional network, including practices, developers, and government bodies.

What you'll learn
On this course, students will:

• Understand and investigate theoretical and practical issues of housing design on a global scale
• Gain a holistic understanding of housing production (disciplines, stakeholders, impacts) and develop skills to intervene in housing production through design on a local, national, and global level
• Develop research and design skills to identify challenges and to provide design solutions in our residential environments in different urban contexts
• Improve their digital fluency (BIM, Modelling, GIS, Environmental modelling)
• Acquire skills to effectively communicate to different stakeholders, develop impactful, systematic solutions, and become active participants in shaping residential/urban environments
• Gain individual development through academic enquiry, peer discussion, scholarship, and research skills in investigating housing design
• Gain academic and practical experience, specifically tailored for future employment and/or the pursuit of postgraduate studies.