- M.Phil in Architecture an Urban Design at the University of Cambridge is offered on a full-time basis for a duration of 22-months.
- This is an on-campus and thesis-based program.
- This two-year course uniquely combines a professional course i.e. ARB/RIBA part 2 course with a Cambridge Master of Philosophy degree.
- It provides advanced teaching, research, and practice opportunities in environmental, social, political, historical, theoretical, and economic aspects of architecture, cities, and the global environment.
- During the fieldwork period, students will have engaged in a rigorous research exercise and produced a well-resolved and argued design at strategic, building, and detail design scales.
- Teaching is delivered through seminars, supported by individual supervision.
- Students are also offered a series of studio sessions and hands-on workshops, offering support in research skills and techniques.
- The weekly seminars, plus additional research workshops, provide a framework to explore a variety of research approaches from a range of relevant disciplines available in the Department.
- The course requires regular written, visual, and oral presentations in the studio.
- At the beginning of the Easter term of their first year of study, students commence work on their approved program of fieldwork and focus on their dissertation project.
- MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design students wishing to apply for a PhD must achieve an overall total score of at least 70.