Our MSc Advanced Architectural Design is aimed at international designers who want to enhance their design and research skills. This architectural design course helps you consolidate your own identity as a designer. You'll develop your own distinctive specialisms through research-led design. We'll prepare you for a world where successful architects increasingly have to be specialists as well as generalists. Our aim is to help you become a leading architect in the profession. The course offers an innovative, absorbing, research-led pathway in advanced architectural design. **What you'll learn** Architecture and Cities pathway: The semester 1 design project uses the city as a laboratory for exploring ideas and design strategies to develop a masterplan for a significant city centre site. You'll also take a module to develop appropriate research strategies for your chosen area of research in your design thesis. The second semester design project returns to a more conventional architectural scale, exploring: - ideas of meaning and identity in the urban environment - the role that public space and buildings play in articulating notions of citizenship and community - You'll also take a course which focuses on a series of seminal theoretical readings that relate directly to architecture and the city. **Facilities** You'll be based in one of the UK’s leading Schools of Architecture. We aim to provide a lively design studio culture across our professional courses making the School a thriving and creative place to be. Our well-equipped workshop includes some of the latest digital and biological manufacturing tools. The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape has excellent studio teaching facilities. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, access to our facilities may be limited to allow social distancing and follow government guidance. Our facilities include: - lively design studios - exhibition spaces - well-equipped workshop including the latest digital manufacturing technology - wet fabrication lab including 3D printers - molecular biology lab (one of the first in the world to be administered by a school of architecture) - print media suite - IT suites. Find out more about the School facilities, including virtual tours of some teaching spaces.