'History of Architecture & Landscape 1' is the second of the history and theory modules that form part of the BA Architecture and BA Landscape Architecture programmes. The course provides a comprehensive overview of the global history of architecture and landscape. It covers various techniques for organising and structuring space, buildings, and landscapes, and offers a framework for understanding built environments and designed landscapes. The course emphasises the importance of social and technological contexts in shaping architecture and designed landscapes.Module Leader: Omar Abolnaga.Tutors: Omar Abolnaga (2022 – present), Roo Angell (2022 – present), Paola Camasso (2024 – present), Shiyu Jin (2025 – present), Maria Venegas Raba (2025 – present), Sabrina Puddu (2025 – present), Yorgos Loizos (2025 – present) Riccardo Belà (2022–2024), Will Jennings (2022–2024), Elin Eyborg Lund (2022–2024), Freya Wigzell (2022–2024).History & Theory of Architecture Lecturer
History of Architecture & Landscape 1
'Cultural contexts' is the first of the history and theory modules that form part of the BA Architecture and BA Landscape Architecture programmes. The course introduces ways of thinking about and experiencing architecture as part of its wider context; both the tangible physical context and the intangible social, historical and cultural context. Key to its evaluation is the introduction of criticality, assessing space and site through different perspectives, first-person experience, academic research, and critique. The course allows first-year architecture students to explore the city of London whilst developing analysis, research and writing skills key to the study of architecture, urban space and landscape.Module Leader: Laura Bowie.Tutors: Omar Abolnaga, Roo Angell, Riccardo Belà, Francesca Romana Dell’Aglio, Will Jennings, Elin Eyborg Lund, Petra Seitz, Freya Wigzell.Cultural Contexts
Architecture Dissertation
Each dissertation tutor offers a ‘specialist’ theme and reading list for their tutorial group through lectures, discussions and workshops. For this reason, the themes may vary from year to year. Each student selects a dissertation topic based on the theme of their tutorial group. The course acknowledges a diversity of architectural positions and interests and engages students by presenting their work in discussion workshops and tutorials. The dissertation results in a 5,700-word (including Research Methods Statement) essay, with the visual form supporting and contributing to the argument. In my group titled 'Contested Urbanity: Architecture and the Politics of Space', students are encouraged to explore the creation of space, both architectural and urban, in ways that are political, contested, and collective. Students ask questions such as: How are spaces produced 'from above' (by institutions, authorities, and professionals) and 'from below' (by users and everyday practices)? What roles do architects and planners play in this process? What forms of interventions are possible if we take seriously the idea that space is made by its users as much as by its designers?Module Leader: Laura Bowie.Tutors: Omar Abolnaga, Laura Bowie, Paola Camasso, Sabrina Puddu, Yorgos Loizos.