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• Class code: AB106
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building.

• Class code: AB107
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building.

• Class code: 22143
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

In first year, students are introduced to an elementary structural/construction and environmental vocabulary. The taught programme includes lectures, seminars and workshops that describe elementary structural and environmental principles. The properties and behaviour of the four main construction materials, the basics of framed and load-bearing construction and the fundamentals of sustainability, low carbon design and building physics are introduced.

• Class code: 22137
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The aim of the class is to introduce the student to a broad outline of the historical and cultural contexts of architecture. Both semesters offer an overview: specifically; of the history of Western Architecture. The course shall introduce students to ways of seeing and analysing historical architecture; from which students will be encouraged to develop confidence, in both observing and commenting, on architecture of all periods, expressing themselves clearly and accurately in spoken and written communications. Above all; it shall inculcate a research discipline and introduce methods of acquiring, reading, interpreting and synthesising historical and theoretical discourses on Architecture.

• Class code: AB208
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll work on a series of increasingly complex architectural projects set in a Scottish context, which are supported by the Experiencing Architecture 2 programme.

• Class code: AB209
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll work on a series of increasingly complex architectural projects set in a Scottish context, which are supported by the Experiencing Architecture 2 programme.

• Class code: 22266
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

Following on from the explorations into the history of the architecture of Western Europe in the First Year; the Second Year aims to establish both a broader, and simultaneously more specific, contextual background to architecture. It introduces students to some of the key issues, historical movements and events that shaped and structured today’s built and cultural environment globally; and, in particular, the types of buildings that compose it. To start, in the first semester, we look explicitly at the architectural history of Scotland as a nation; and, in the second semester, we embark on a more expansive analytical journey into the architecture of the world at large, looking at each continental land mass and the evolution of the architecture therein.

• Class code: 22243
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Workshops

Class descriptor

In second year, students are expected to engage with technology at a more specific level by researching materials, construction and environmental systems as well as developing an integrated sense of the strategic implications of structure, construction and environment in the design process. They are introduced to dedicated issues of structure, detail, material choice as well as energy systems and basic building physics calculations. A developed knowledge of the four main structural materials is supplemented by the introduction of contemporary materials and an introduction to the important issue of environmental/sustainable design embedded within current legislation. The emphasis in second year is to encourage and enable students to integrate, through analysis and synthesis, all aspects of technological design into their studio design projects. The technology curriculum in 2nd year is supported by environmental and structural engineering technology workshops and tutorials.

• Class code: AB317
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll undertake two projects in a dense urban context, the latter project being an undergraduate thesis.

• Class code: AB316
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

In third year, students are expected to develop a cognitive ability to perceive the design process as completely holistic encompassing a wide variety of subject areas. The delivery of technology is therefore completely integrated into the studio design programme, with an expectation that the student can evidence an ability to apply and resolve construction detailing, environmental response and structural comprehension within a relatively complex architectural programme. The studio programme’s technology component is therefore supported by case studies presented by practicing architects and engineers in lectures and seminars, as well as dedicated environmental and structural engineering technology workshops and tutorials. This class is delivered ONLY in Semester 1 of Year 3.

• Class code: 22373
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The general aim of the class is to focus the student into a more considered critical evaluation of cultural theory and architectural history, in particular within cities. Continuing on directly from the Second Year course on global architectural culture and the building typologies that go together to construct the city; the first semester focuses on the history of Glasgow’s architecture, with particular reference to the developments in urban housing in the city up to present day. The second semester explores the process of urban culture through story-telling, using images and text. The course will familiarise students with the architecture which surrounds them, and with the development of Glasgow as a city. The importance of social, political and economic context in shaping architectural practice and urban development will be discussed throughout. Engaging with Edward Soja’s theory of ‘Thirdspace’ (and by association Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Lived Space’); the theoretical underpinnings of the city throughout history will be investigated by students, presenting an opportunity to enrich and interrogate their subjective understanding of architecture, the city, and their own personal engagement with both.

• Class code: AB418
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll complete the Design Studies programme with classes 4A and 4B. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB422
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 30 (15 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

This class will contribute to the completion of the Design Studies Programme. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB418
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll complete the Design Studies programme with classes 4A and 4B. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: 22563
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Online, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The class aims to foster an awareness of both the historical and theoretical context of environmental sustainability and offer a critical examination of the way in which issues of sustainability relate to the built environment.

• Class code: AB931
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The studio is designed to take the study area and its spatial context as both its focus and focus. As part of a semester-long investigation into the social, political, economic, environmental and professional environment guiding urban change, this module aims to assist students' in their critical appraisal of the town. In particular, students will produce a comprehensive, detailed and illustrated analysis of the environmental, social and economic characteristics of the context selected which will form the basis for the formulation of a regeneration programme and a strategic urban design framework for it.

• Class code: AB964
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: none
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

This module will expand upon the previous Design Studio projects at a more advanced level, and will allow students to cover subjects at a higher and more in-depth level.

• Class code: AB975
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. The social, environmental, and economic impact of development strategies will be identified and the mitigation of negative impacts discussed. In particular, on completion of the module students will understand the concept of social, environmental and economic sustainability and be able to discuss population, urban, and economic growth strategies and their impacts.

• Class code: AB957
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: Class can only be taken in conjunction with Year 5 Design Studio 5A
• Teaching methods: Workshops

Class descriptor

Attendance at International Workshops allow the student to pursue areas of specific interest out-with the confines of the set curriculum and assist in developing awareness of cultural diversity and integration, attributes that are encouraged to enhance the development of the p/g student both architecturally and personally.

• Class code: AB936
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

This class aims at developing students’ expertise in an area of their choice; in particular the field of study deals with GC4 (urban design), and the class equips the students with further knowledge in the understanding the historic development of urban forms and the possible use of historic experiences for future design. The specific design qualities of selected historic examples will be analysed, and the way in which historic circumstances - i.e. conditions like politics, economy, society, technology or culture – have shaped these specific forms will be researched.

• Class code: AB995
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures

Class descriptor

This module aims to provide students from different backgrounds the opportunity to engage in useful learning into the subject field of Facilities Management (FM). It focuses on sophisticated principles and contemporary practices to form the body of advanced professional knowledge, i.e. Facilities Management Body of Knowledge (FMBOK), and has an international perspective. For students to develop professional knowledge and skills to tackle issues and challenges in the built environment, including buildings and infrastructures, this module has a unique structure of contents on three domains, including clients and professionals, service products, and management processes with regard to subject mastery and personal abilities; and has focus on the best practice and further research towards technical innovations and the continuous enhancement of professional competence in design, construction and operation for the dependable built environment. This module can help students to develop knowledge and skills for advanced architectural design with regard to the principles of facilities management.

• Class code: AB998
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures

Class descriptor

This module aims to provide students from different backgrounds the opportunity to engage in useful learning into the subject field of Advanced Construction Technologies (ACT). It focuses on several key issues in four related areas, including 1) ACT oriented innovative design, 2) the Review of ACT adoption, 3) the Feasibility study of ACT, and 4) ACT and Design/Construction management. For students to develop professional knowledge and skills to tackle issues and challenges in the built environment, including buildings and infrastructures, this module has a unique structure of contents in these four main sections with regard to subject mastery and personal abilities, and has focus on the best practice and further research towards technical innovations and the continuous enhancement of professional competence in design and construction for the dependable built environment. This module can help students to develop knowledge and skills for advanced architectural design with regard to the adoption and/or development of ACT.

• Class code: AB978
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Practical, Workshops

Class descriptor

The module aims to provide knowledge and understanding of conservation principles and ethics. This module will immerse the students into the history and theory of conservation, reviewing the main international and local schools of thought, understanding how they developed and relating them to practical realisations. The students will be introduced to the wider picture of conservation, including the evolution of planning conservation and the understanding of the issues of public interest and economics. Class is run as intensive workshop in weeks 1, 2 and 3 (Sem 1)

• Class code: AB979
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Practical, Workshops

Class descriptor

This module aims to present architectural and construction history both as the wider context of the buildings and as tools for its analysis. The course will provide an alternative reading of architecture through the technical historical processes and culture that produced them. It will reflect on the complex array of context, conditions and their interaction during the historic development of buildings. Urban History will be also introduced within this module. Class is run as intensive workshop in weeks 1, 2 and 3 (Sem 1)

• Class code: Awaiting Code
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Practical

Class descriptor

This class is an exercise in urban comprehension, specifically the city of Glasgow, seen through the lens of creative writing and associated illustration.

• Class code: AB108
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 2 (Jan-May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building. 

• Class code: AB109
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building. 

• Class code: 22138
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The aim of the class is to introduce the student to a broad outline of the historical and cultural contexts of architecture. Both semesters offer an overview: specifically; of the history of Western Architecture. The course shall introduce students to ways of seeing and analysing historical architecture; from which students will be encouraged to develop confidence, in both observing and commenting, on architecture of all periods, expressing themselves clearly and accurately in spoken and written communications. Above all; it shall inculcate a research discipline and introduce methods of acquiring, reading, interpreting and synthesising historical and theoretical discourses on Architecture.

• Class code: 22144
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

In first year, students are introduced to an elementary structural/construction and environmental vocabulary. The taught programme includes lectures, seminars and workshops that describe elementary structural and environmental principles. The properties and behaviour of the four main construction materials, the basics of framed and load-bearing construction and the fundamentals of sustainability, low carbon design and building physics are introduced.

• Class code: AB210
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll work on a series of increasingly complex architectural projects set in a Scottish context, which are supported by the Experiencing Architecture 2 programme. 

• Class code: 22267
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

Following on from the explorations into the history of the architecture of Western Europe in the First Year; the Second Year aims to establish both a broader, and simultaneously more specific, contextual background to architecture. It introduces students to some of the key issues, historical movements and events that shaped and structured today’s built and cultural environment globally; and, in particular, the types of buildings that compose it. To start, in the first semester, we look explicitly at the architectural history of Scotland as a nation; and, in the second semester, we embark on a more expansive analytical journey into the architecture of the world at large, looking at each continental land mass and the evolution of the architecture therein.

• Class code: 22244
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

In second year, students are expected to engage with technology at a more specific level by researching materials, construction and environmental systems as well as developing an integrated sense of the strategic implications of structure, construction and environment in the design process. They are introduced to dedicated issues of structure, detail, material choice as well as energy systems and basic building physics calculations. A developed knowledge of the four main structural materials is supplemented by the introduction of contemporary materials and an introduction to the important issue of environmental/sustainable design embedded within current legislation. The emphasis in second year is to encourage and enable students to integrate, through analysis and synthesis, all aspects of technological design into their studio design projects. The technology curriculum in 2nd year is supported by environmental and structural engineering technology workshops and tutorials.

• Class code: AB318
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll undertake two projects in a dense urban context, the latter project being an undergraduate thesis.

• Class code: 22374
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The general aim of the class is to focus the student into a more considered critical evaluation of cultural theory and architectural history, in particular within cities. Continuing on directly from the Second Year course on global architectural culture and the building typologies that go together to construct the city; the first semester focuses on the history of Glasgow’s architecture, with particular reference to the developments in urban housing in the city up to present day. The second semester explores the process of urban culture through story-telling, using images and text. The course will familiarise students with the architecture which surrounds them, and with the development of Glasgow as a city. The importance of social, political and economic context in shaping architectural practice and urban development will be discussed throughout. Engaging with Edward Soja’s theory of ‘Thirdspace’ (and by association Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Lived Space’); the theoretical underpinnings of the city throughout history will be investigated by students, presenting an opportunity to enrich and interrogate their subjective understanding of architecture, the city, and their own personal engagement with both.

• Class code: AB423
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 30 (15 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

This class will be part of the final contribution to completing the Design Studies Programme. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects. 

• Class code: AB419
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: lectures, seminars/tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll complete the Design Studies programme with classes 4A and 4B. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB973
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/tutorials, Practical

Class descriptor

This module aims to investigate urban types through the detailed study of selected numbers of urban typologies and their measures, and on this basis to formulate a complete Local Urban Code (LUC) for the detailed masterplan of the study area. Moreover, in this module students develop their Concept Plans into detailed Foundation masterplan which indicate, for a selected portion of their Strategy, the overall block subdivision, the distribution of nodes and their connection, the street hierarchy and localized densities.

• Class code: AB965
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

This module will expand upon the previous Design Studio projects at a more advanced level, and will allow students to cover subjects at a higher and more in-depth level.

• Class code: AB974
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Practical

Class descriptor

This module will aim to have an in-depth investigation and resolution of area or theme of interest by means of the comprehension of the language of masterplanning for sustainable communities as well as the basic understanding of what coding does mean in relation to their masterplan and place design.

• Class code: AB935
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

This class aims at developing students’ expertise in an area of their choice; in particular the field of study deals with GC4 (urban design), and the class equips the students with further knowledge on the delivery of socially sustainable solutions focussing on the interface between built and open space components of the urban environment and its relevance to the health and well-being of urban inhabitants. This class aims at both understanding major historic developments regarding the design of landscape in the urban context and enhancing the ability to develop appropriate design strategies for landscape elements in the city. In particular it will explore the importance of green space networks and their integration with streetscape as integral to the delivery of sustainable urban environments. Emphasis will be placed on the delivery of socially sustainable solutions focussing on the interface between built and open space components of the urban environment and its relevance to the health and wellbeing of urban inhabitants. 

Class might have limited intake numbers

• Class code: AB991
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures

Class descriptor

This module aims to provide students from different backgrounds the opportunity to engage in useful learning into the subject field of Building Information Management (BIM). It focuses on key issues in two related areas, including 1) BIM Documentation, and 2) Lifecycle BIM. For students to develop professional knowledge and skills to tackle issues and challenges in the built environment, including buildings and infrastructures, in the context of BIM techniques, this module has a unique structure of contents with regard to subject mastery and personal abilities, and has focus on the best practice and further research towards technical innovations and the continuous enhancement of professional competence in design, construction and operation for the dependable built environment. This module can help students to develop knowledge and skills for advanced architectural design with regard to the adoption of BIM.

• Class code: AB106
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building. 

• Class code: AB107
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building. 

• Class code: AB108
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building. 

• Class code: AB109
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The first design studio project will introduce you to the whole of the architectural design process: from conceptualisation and inception, through design development and resolution, to full size realisation and construction. Subsequent projects will develop design methodologies to enable you to design your first building. 

• Class code: AB110
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

The aim of the class is to introduce the student to a broad outline of the historical and cultural contexts of architecture. Both semesters offer an overview: specifically; of the history of Western Architecture. The course shall introduce students to ways of seeing and analysing historical architecture; from which students will be encouraged to develop confidence, in both observing and commenting, on architecture of all periods, expressing themselves clearly and accurately in spoken and written communications. Above all; it shall inculcate a research discipline and introduce methods of acquiring, reading, interpreting and synthesising historical and theoretical discourses on Architecture.

• Class code: AB111
• Level: 1
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

In first year, students are introduced to an elementary structural/construction and environmental vocabulary. The taught programme includes lectures, seminars and workshops that describe elementary structural and environmental principles. The properties and behaviour of the four main construction materials, the basics of framed and load-bearing construction and the fundamentals of sustainability, low carbon design and building physics are introduced.

• Class code: AB208
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll work on a series of increasingly complex architectural projects set in a Scottish context, which are supported by the Experiencing Architecture 2 programme.

• Class code: AB209
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll work on a series of increasingly complex architectural projects set in a Scottish context, which are supported by the Experiencing Architecture 2 programme.

• Class code: AB210
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

You'll work on a series of increasingly complex architectural projects set in a Scottish context, which are supported by the Experiencing Architecture 2 programme.

• Class code: AB211
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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Following on from the explorations into the history of the architecture of Western Europe in the First Year; the Second Year aims to establish both a broader, and simultaneously more specific, contextual background to architecture. It introduces students to some of the key issues, historical movements and events that shaped and structured today’s built and cultural environment globally; and, in particular, the types of buildings that compose it. To start, in the first semester, we look explicitly at the architectural history of Scotland as a nation; and, in the second semester, we embark on a more expansive analytical journey into the architecture of the world at large, looking at each continental land mass and the evolution of the architecture therein.

• Class code: AB212
• Level: 2
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Workshops

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In second year, students are expected to engage with technology at a more specific level by researching materials, construction and environmental systems as well as developing an integrated sense of the strategic implications of structure, construction and environment in the design process. They are introduced to dedicated issues of structure, detail, material choice as well as energy systems and basic building physics calculations. A developed knowledge of the four main structural materials is supplemented by the introduction of contemporary materials and an introduction to the important issue of environmental/sustainable design embedded within current legislation. The emphasis in second year is to encourage and enable students to integrate, through analysis and synthesis, all aspects of technological design into their studio design projects. The technology curriculum in 2nd year is supported by environmental and structural engineering technology workshops and tutorials.

• Class code: AB318
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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You'll undertake two projects in a dense urban context, the latter project being an undergraduate thesis.

• Class code: AB314
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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The general aim of the class is to focus the student into a more considered critical evaluation of cultural theory and architectural history, in particular within cities. Continuing on directly from the Second Year course on global architectural culture and the building typologies that go together to construct the city; the first semester focuses on the history of Glasgow’s architecture, with particular reference to the developments in urban housing in the city up to present day. The second semester explores the process of urban culture through story-telling, using images and text. The course will familiarise students with the architecture which surrounds them, and with the development of Glasgow as a city. The importance of social, political and economic context in shaping architectural practice and urban development will be discussed throughout. Engaging with Edward Soja’s theory of ‘Thirdspace’ (and by association Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Lived Space’); the theoretical underpinnings of the city throughout history will be investigated by students, presenting an opportunity to enrich and interrogate their subjective understanding of architecture, the city, and their own personal engagement with both.

• Class code: AB317
• Level: 3
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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You'll undertake two projects in a dense urban context, the latter project being an undergraduate thesis.

• Class code: AB422
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 30 (15 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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This class will contribute to completing the Design Studies programme. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB423
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 30 (15 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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This class will contribute to completing the Design Studies programme. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB418
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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You'll complete the Design Studies programme with classes 4A and 4B. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB419
• Level: 4
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
• Level of study: Undergraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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You'll complete the Design Studies programme with classes 4A and 4B. This will complete the undergraduate Design studio modules and projects.

• Class code: AB931
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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The studio is designed to take the study area and its spatial context as both its focus and focus. As part of a semester-long investigation into the social, political, economic, environmental and professional environment guiding urban change, this module aims to assist students' in their critical appraisal of the town. In particular, students will produce a comprehensive, detailed and illustrated analysis of the environmental, social and economic characteristics of the context selected which will form the basis for the formulation of a regeneration programme and a strategic urban design framework for it. 

• Class code: AB932
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Practical

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This module aims to assist students in developing realistic urban regeneration programmes for the transformation of the study area in the larger urban context. In particular, on the basis of the information gathered in the first module, students will formulate imaginative but at  the same time realistic scenarios for the overall transformation of the site and the 'making of place and mediation of space', recognising and taking into account often contradictory forces and interests.  

• Class code: AB973
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Practical

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This module aims to investigate urban types through the detailed study of selected numbers of urban typologies and their measures, and on this basis to formulate a complete Local Urban Code (LUC) for the detailed masterplan of the study area. Moreover, in this module students develop their Concept Plans into detailed Foundation masterplan which indicate, for a selected portion of their Strategy, the overall block subdivision, the distribution of nodes and their connection, the street hierarchy and localized densities.

• Class code: AB974
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Practical

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This module will aim to have an in-depth investigation and resolution of area or theme of interest by means of the comprehension of the language of masterplanning for sustainable communities as well as the basic understanding of what coding does mean in relation to their masterplan and place design.

• Class code: AB964
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Seminars/Tutorials

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This class is organised within a meta-theme shared by the year, and developed within design units. Design Studies comprise two projects, Design Studies 5 A and 5B; the first consisting in the in-depth investigation, analysis and development of a design proposition, the latter in its detailed resolution.

• Class code: AB965
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: None
• Teaching methods: Seminars/Tutorials

Class descriptor

This class is organised within a meta-theme shared by the year, and developed within design units. Design Studies comprise two projects, Design Studies 5 A and 5B; the first consisting in the in-depth investigation, analysis and development of a design proposition, the latter in its detailed resolution.

• Class code: AB939
• Level: 5
• Semester (including exams): Full Year (September to May)
• Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
• Level of study: Postgraduate
• Prerequisites: Class is only available to full year exchange students.
• Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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This class aims at developing students’ expertise in an area of their choice; in particular the field of study deals with GC4 (urban design), and the class equips the students with further knowledge in the theoretical debate around urban form in relation to economic, environmental, cultural issues and social issues; the class discusses historic and contemporary issues, tracing the impact of urban theories on our cities and their hinterland, and the repercussions on life styles and sustainability. This class aims to enhance the critical understanding of the complex phenomenon of the city and the relation of urban design to the city in general by considering key theories in urban planning and design. Analysis includes formal, aesthetic, social, political, economic, technological and cultural aspects.

Class might have limited to intake numbers.