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Study Details: 1 year full-time
17 months full-time
2 years part-time
Explore your passion for the heritage of historic buildings and sites and uncover the stories behind their structures with our MA Architecture: Building and Heritage Conservation Master's.
Accredited by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), this course encourages you to engage creatively, theoretically, and research-wise with historic buildings and sites and explore conservation design on a conceptual and practical level. These methods will help deepen your understanding of the heritage and conservation process, especially the tangible and intangible factors that encompass our historic, contemporary, cultural, and social values. Our team of heritage and conservation experts will support you in sharpening your skills and bolstering your professional practice.
Through your explorations, you'll investigate the importance of retaining our heritage buildings and sites, the financial constraints and consequences of doing so, and the most effective management and restoration methods. Work with the interior, architecture, and urban scales and their interconnections, examine different historic and contemporary heritage buildings and sites to relate conservation thinking with various real-life challenges, and test out new technologies.
A good honours degree in a relevant subject, such as
Architecture
Interior Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Urban Design
Civil Engineering
Building Surveying
Geography
Spatial Practices
Fine Art
Other design-related subject
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Building and heritage conservation has several benefits, including preserving local cultures and traditions, strengthening individual identity, contributing to sustainable development, and creating jobs in communities. With a salary range of between £29,000 and £46,000 per year (Archjobs, 2023; Indeed, 2023), any emerging architect keen to contribute to the posterity, wellbeing, and urban growth of our world's societies and communities will feel at home in the conservation architecture and building heritage sectors.
Core modules:
Thesis - 60 credits
Research Methods - 30 credits
Optional modules:
Conservation and Practice - 30 credits
Conservation: Theories - 30 credits
Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences - 30 credits
Landscape and Urbanism: Territories and Systems - 30 credits
Landscape and Urbanism: Sites and Systems - 30 credits
Spatial Practices: Situated Ecologies - 30 credits
Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making - 30 credits
Work-Based Learning: Opportunity - 30 credits
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