The MArch Architecture course at Central Saint Martins encourages architecture practices that consider economic, political and social systems, through research and collaboration with industry professionals.

The accelerating impact of climate change and biodiversity loss dramatically questions the established roles of the architect and architecture's relationship with the economic, political and social systems within which it operates.

These systems are often built upon continuous growth, demanding extractive and resource-depleting practices which enshrine social and environmental injustices further into the built environment.

While the course provides you with the professional pathway toward registration as an architect, it also questions that professional role: how can we move from a position of complicity to one that actively helps to regenerate the environment?

MArch: Architecture breaks open dominant teaching practices in architectural education by creating dialogue between students and practitioner-educators. Our pedagogies centre on your lived experiences.

The development of your subjectivity is foregrounded, which creates a more inclusive and safer space where issues such as race, gender, equity and intersectionality are discussed and can become central to design projects.

Through collaboration with local users and contexts, we aim to empower stakeholders (human and non-human) to become active agents in development. We collaborate with other disciplines in the college and external partners.

The art school setting provides a rich and multi-disciplinary learning environment from supporting you to critically respond to these challenges through research, knowledge exchange and design interventions.

School: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Course: MArch Architecture
Type: Postgraduate
Location: London, UK
Course dates: September 2026, with a duration of two years (80 weeks) extended full-time
Application deadline: 18 March 2026

Applications to this course have now closed.

What will I learn during this course?

– Build on design and architecture skills
– Spatial practice, working in the field of climate, social justice and civic architecture

What are the requirements?

– An upper second class honours degree from an Architects Registration Board (ARB) prescribed course in architecture
– Alternatively, an equivalent EU/international qualification or a professional qualification recognised as equivalent to an honours degree
– At least one year of relevant internship or professional experience
– English language requirements: IELTS score of 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (please check our main English language requirements webpage)

What facilities and resources are available?

– Term-time access to a range of open technical facilities, including the Loan Store, Digital Fabrication Bureau, Digital Labs, Digital Print, Paint/Surface, Photography Studios, 3D Capture Lab and Casting
– Term-time access to specialist facilities including Digital Make, 3D Make, Physical Computing Lab, Mixed Reality Lab

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