Architecture and Sustainability MSc

Reducing energy consumption which contributes to global climate change and pollution is an international imperative, and the future architect must be equipped with the skills and vision to tackle this challenge both innovatively and responsibly. This course helps you master the knowledge and skills required to produce thermally comfortable, healthy, and habitable building designs while minimising energy consumptions. The curriculum embraces the interface between the environmental, economical and socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability in terms of building design and carbon neutrality. 

You will join a community that is co-designing new ways of thinking and challenging architectural conventions through bold experimentation and boundless enquiry. This enquiry-led approach to education will encourage you to take creative risks and to learn from your mistakes in a way that will shape your future design choices.

We provide state-of-the-art facilities for you to realise your ambitions, with workshops offering cutting-edge digital fabrication facilities, alongside a wide range of craft workshops, where you can innovate with materials and processes. We’ll help you to graduate with the tools to take your own personal and critical position on embracing the challenges of sustainability in the globalised architectural world.

Key features

• The long-standing Leicester School of Architecture is one of the oldest schools in the UK and our approach meaningfully draws upon years of experience to challenge conventions and redefine the future of architectural practice. 
• We will empower you with the tools to become a responsible global architect, with the skills and mindset to tackle the complex environmental challenges ahead. 
• You can choose to undertake a year-long work placement, gaining valuable experience to enhance and embed your practical and professional skills. 
• Your dedicated tutors come from industry, practice and research, which ensures your work is responding to contemporary, real-world issues that are grounded in both theory and practice. 

• You should have the equivalent or above of a 2:2 UK bachelor’s honours degree in a relevant subject

• If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.

DMU Global is an innovative international experience programme that aims to enrich studies, broaden cultural horizons and develop key skills valued by employers. It offers an exciting mix of overseas, on-campus and online international experiences, including the opportunity to study or work abroad for up to a year. Students have previously undertaken DMU Global trips to European cities such as Copenhagen and Berlin, and have also taken students further afield to India and New York. This course will help equip students with the necessary skills and innovative approach to address the challenges of sustainable architecture and development, and provide excellent preparation to progress onto a PhD. Placements will normally take place between semester two and three, and an assigned personal tutor will support students throughout their placement.