Places on the MA Research Architecture are very competitive. They are not limited to graduates of architecture, but open to a range of other disciplines. You should have, or expect to gain, an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard.
You apply directly to Goldsmiths using our online application system.
To complete your application, you will need to have:
You'll be able to save your progress at any point and return to your application by logging in using your username/email and password.
Two of these are taught modules: Research Studio (which includes the Research Architecture or Forensic Architecture studio streams), and the theoretical module Critical Conditions. On the Live Project you will work collaboratively. The module offers the opportunity for peer-to-peer learning under the guidance of a guest (usually from an NGO or legal organisation). You'll also carry out an oral presentation in the form of the Symposium, and you'll complete a Dissertation project. In addition, you will have the option of participating in an unassessed placement with the Forensic Architecture Agency . You'll benefit from guest lectures, workshops, and field trips to local archives and exhibitions. You'll have the opportunity to learn technical skills (video, animation, sound, Geographic Information Science [GIS], 3D modelling, mapping, photogrammetry, technical drawing, and basic coding) at an appropriate level as part of an extensive series of workshops that run over the course of each year. (Attendance in these workshops is not mandatory and competencies with these digital tools are not assessed.) In addition, you are encouraged to attend the non-assessed Visual Cultures Public Programme that takes place on Thursday evenings and may attend other occasional, optional workshops offered by the School or Goldsmiths, which focus on specific themes and problems in the broad field of visual cultures and spatial politics and beyond.
The MA Research Architecture is for graduates from a range of disciplines who want to examine how architecture can engage with questions of contemporary culture, politics, media, ecology and justice, and question whether spatial practice can become a form of research.
You'll take the following compulsory modules: