Master in Architecture and Sustainable Heritage Welcome to MORE 2026

Kate Jordan, Maja Jović, David Littlefield

MASH approaches heritage as a living and evolving practice, combining critical enquiry with experiential learning, professional engagement and international perspectives to equip students to interpret, manage and transform places responsibly, creatively and sustainably.

The first year of the MA Architecture and Sustainable Heritage brought heritage out of the seminar room and into the places, institutions and communities through which it is continually made and remade. Across three core modules – Contexts of Sustainable Heritage and Intervention, Research Methods in Built Environment Studies, and Heritage Theory and Practice: Dissertation –students combined critical enquiry with experiential learning, developing the skills to research, interpret and intervene in heritage responsibly.

London became an extended classroom. Students explored areas including Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Hackney Wick, Spitalfields and Somers Town, as well as the city’s postmodern and High-Tech architecture through guided walks. Alongside this, visits to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the University archive, the People’s Museum and the National Gallery – including privileged behind-the-scenes access – connected academic debate with professional practice. An international field trip to Zagreb and Split extended these conversations through encounters with heritage, memory, reconstruction and urban transformation in the Croatian context.

A wide range of practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, architects and heritage specialists shared their working practice and experiences throughout the year. Their contributions, spanning adaptive reuse, inclusive heritage, memorialisation, architectural conservation, community engagement and post-conflict contexts, further enriched thought and conversations.

The year culminated in public-facing activity through the London Festival of Architecture and Tower Tavern, where walks, conversations, exhibitions and live projects allowed students to test how heritage knowledge can be communicated beyond the university. Together, these experiences reflect MASH’s ethos: internationally engaged, professionally connected and rooted in learning through the city and its people.

Guest contributors: Zrinka Barišić Marenić (University of Zagreb), Nataša Bodrožić (Slobodne Veze/Loose Associations), John East, Diana Foster (A Space for Us? People’s Museum), Jessica Hancock (National Gallery), Regine Kandan (Donald Insall Associates), Xiao Ma, Ioana Marinescu, David McDonald (IHBC), Vesna Meštrić (Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb), Maroje Mrduljaš (University of Zagreb), Caroline Sandes, Ana Škegro (Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb), Toni Vekarić, Heidi Weeks (National Gallery), Jon Wright (Purcell) 

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