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Research at The Bartlett School of Architecture provides diverse architectural leadership for today’s most pressing issues, in collaboration with our industry, education and community partners.

Our research takes place at various scales, durations and collaborations. Our approaches include architectural, environmental, health and urban design; history and theory; performance and curation; engineering and biology; design and making; and craft and computation. Our work is often transdisciplinary, reflecting varied collaborations with the education, professional, industrial, charitable, health, governance and community sectors.  

From spatial, social and racial justice; exhibitions, curation and experimental performance; artistic, historical and theoretical publications; computational and AI-related research; landscape, housing and community-led high-street regeneration; or engineered, robotic and craft fabrication, our work shows architecture’s engagement with society, culture, community, environment and technology at local, national and international levels.

Our commitment to innovative architectural research:

  • Addresses urgent global, social, environmental and urban challenges;
  • Engages ethically with these issues at a variety of scales;
  • Nurtures inclusive and collaborative communities;
  • Elevates architecture’s impact and leadership in education and industry.

 

Probiotic Cities by Richard Beckett

Transdisciplinary Projects

Design research is the means by which we discover not only the world that exists, but the world that is possible in the future.

Jan Kattein, Angel Yard. Photo by Jack Hobhouse.

Sustainable Urbanism and Landscape

These projects tackle issues including sanitation, food resources, colonialism and postcolonialism, disputed and conflicted regions and globalisation.

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Building for Wellbeing

This research examines the wide range of effects architecture has on quality of life.

Multi-Material Integrated Facade by Kostas Grigoriadis

Computation and Craft Technologies

Research in this field develops technology that expands the traditions of making and proposes novel ways it may be used.

Brutalist Paris: As Found and Performed by Robin Wilson

Histories and Theories of Architecture

Our history and theory research addresses historical, theoretical, and critical issues in architecture that impact design, technology, pedagogy and professional practice.

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Space Syntax

Space Syntax decodes how spaces shape movement and connections, turning design into a science to build cities that flow and thrive. 

Key staff

The Bartlett's research is developed in line with REF2029 and UCL’s research and external engagement guidance, combined with the school's commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and decarbonisation values. Our research team provides support across our academic, teaching and technical staff groups, with respect to their career development stage (including early career academics). The school’s previous contributions to the Bartlett Faculty’s REF2021 submission resulted in the highest ranking in its Unit of Assessment for research power, for most early-career researchers submitted, and for 90% of research deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent'.