Practice & Study Welcome to MORE 2025
Architecture + Cities integrates practice with academia through modules embedded across all courses and degree levels, allowing students to explore the Theory of Practice and Practice of Theory. Our role is to help students develop ways of working together and build an understanding of their role in the complex landscape of practice, whatever their subject focus. This approach includes practicing architects and planners teaching curriculum, annual award-winning practitioner talks and site visits, always using London as a ‘Live Classroom’.
Architecture is presented as an expanding field in which the experience of those who use buildings, and the environments architecture touches, are as vital to design as the form it may take. Consideration of all aspects of a design intervention means architects must balance the natural world and non-human equally with built world and human need, sometimes choosing not to propose buildings as solutions at all.
The curriculum offers these dynamic insights into built environment practice through learning of stakeholder responsibilities, legal frameworks, contracts, procurement, fire-safety and material life-cycles via discussion, application, reflection and role-play. Industry placements and cross-disciplinary workshops build a student’s confidence and give them real-world experience.
The nature of working and practicing within fields of urban design, planning and strategy means that students are expected to contribute to society in a variety of ways when they move into the workplace. Professional studies is an opportunity to develop working practices with colleagues, in addition to cultivating an appreciation of personal, economic and intellectual well-being.