The Master in Urban Design course at Leeds Beckett University teaches students interdisciplinary frameworks that are needed to understand cities and their architecture.

School: Leeds School of Architecture, Leeds Beckett University
Course: Master in Urban Design
Location: Leeds, UK
Course dates: September 2023 to June 2025
Application deadline: 15 September 2023

Accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute, the Master in Urban Design (MAUDE) recognises architecture and the city as a collective form of knowledge.

This programme brings together professionals from a range of backgrounds who share a passion for improving the design of urban environments.

A particular strength of the urban design course is the framing of contexts such as policy, legal frameworks and planning through considerations of specific constituencies, urban plans, design frameworks, design proposals and physical implementation.

Aspects covered include studies of governance as a spatial design problem and the conception and formation of the city within diverse contexts.

The course responds to contemporary political, social, cultural and economic crises and challenges by rethinking spatial design.

Interdisciplinary frameworks are needed to understand and project the synthesis of the city and its architecture, which include alternative but complementary practices of formal and conceptual thinking.

To encourage students to practice beyond the office, the course offers a curriculum that exposes students to a broader knowledge across design and architecture, working alongside Master of Architecture and postgraduate landscape students in a shared studio environment.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Top image: Metamorphosis, by Jacob Wright

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