Radical Sustainable Architecture

Teaching programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture offers study environments that harness the school’s vision of Engaging Through Architecture and its three focus areas: transformation, habitation, and sustainability at both Bachelor’s and Master’s level. The programme has a specific focus on sustainability.

The programme is passionate about investigating and imagining architectural approaches to societal, climatic and environmental challenges in a rapidly changing world. We explore the making of space and our role within this process through emerging methods and tools both at different scales and in local and global contexts. We design for the needs and well-being of people, which is the foundation of a resilient and healthy environment.

Our emphasis is on examining how trans-disciplinary approaches involving anthropology, sociology, and psychology can qualify architectural design and how contextual influences such as politics, history, culture, ethics, climate/climate change, pollution, ecology, (scarce) resources, economy, technology, etc., can foster new qualities and imagination. These contextual influences inspire rather than inhibit architectural design.

In the Bachelor units, students are introduced to different analytical approaches, whereas the Master studios offer specialisation within different professional fields of architecture.

Teaching programme 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture consists of the following studios:

• Studio 3A: CARE
• Studio 3B: MATERIAL MATTERS