The first 175 years
2016 ushered in a new era for The Bartlett School of Architecture, as it marked its 175th anniversary and launched four new courses.
To celebrate 175 years, the School of Architecture published a special supplement with the Architectural Review, showcasing exceptional moments in its evolution, while highlighting new forms of practice to emerge from it.
The celebrations came the same year that the school took second place in the QS World University Rankings for Architecture for the second year running. The rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact. Among the top five institutions alongside The Bartlett are the University of California Berkeley, Delft University of Technology and Harvard.
Professor Bob Sheil, Director of The Bartlett School of Architecture, described being ranked second in the world as “fantastic news for our staff and students and credit to the hard work and dedication of many individuals and groups.”
One of the keys to the school’s success is how it has always responded to the changing nature of architectural practice. From 2017, it is offering three new postgraduate programmes and one new undergraduate programme.
Each builds on the school’s reputation for research-based education and aims to expand the context and practice of architecture, widening the opportunities available to students at the end of their studies. The programmes are: MEng Engineering & Architectural Design (undergraduate); MArch Design for Performance & Interaction; March Design for Manufacture; and MA Situated Practice.
For more on the future of architectural education at The Bartlett, see Essay 6 by Professor Bob Sheil
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