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During your study, you will be introduced to a diverse Programme, approached through creativity and scholarship, and where there will be significant opportunities to anticipate, speculate upon, and define new possibilities in the field of architecture. The established academic infrastructure and philosophy of CCAE are defined by a commitment to excellence in design, and consideration of wider cultural and theoretical phenomena. This framework is extended into the Masters Programme, where students will pose certain questions on the spaces and cities we inhabit, through a process of critical questioning and the dual acts of text and assemblage.
Central to enabling these investigations and explorations will be the series of prominent academics and architectural practitioners contributing to this Programme. You will be encouraged to participate in a stimulating academic environment. You will be required to address the wider problematics that are raised by changes in contemporary society and provide clues as to how architecture might operate in such an environment.
The course will consider the complex conditions and multiplicities of the contemporary city. We will speculate on the patterns of organisation, the accretion of historical strata, and the network of infrastructural connections, political and economic frameworks that define the twenty-first-century city. Our aim is to form architectural scenarios based on sets of contextual (mnemonic) outputs that bear witness to these strands of development, whilst at the same time defining something new, unexpected and ultimately challenging.
The course is intelligently paced and driven by a thematic framework. You will acquire a comprehensive set of skills that will help you to understand the role of the architect in shaping the modern city.
Course Code : MEAT
Course Type : Full Time
Course Level : Masters/PG Degree
Duration : 01 Year
Total Tuition Fee :23100 EUR
Annual Cost of Living :10500 EUR
Application Fee :50.0 EUR
Set on 42 acres of wooded ground, only a 10 minute walk from Cork City Centre, our college was established in 1845 after a long campaign for a higher education institution in Munster. On these pages you can find out more about the history of UCC.
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UCC Alumni and Development offers opportunities to individuals and corporations to become involved in capital development and heritage projects as well as academic and research programmes.The UCC Alumni Community is a global network numbering more than 140,000 and includes graduates from a wide range of disciplines - some studied at UCC in recent years, others attended in decades gone by. We would like to keep in touch with all of our alumni and to help alumni to stay in touch with one another. Being a part of the alumni network can be of enormous benefit both professionally and socially. We organise class reunions and events in Ireland and in the various locations where our alumni live and work around the world.