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MA ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABILITY+DESIGN ava university of east london .
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MA ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABILITY+DESIGN ava university of east london The programme is a critical examination of environmental sustainability and environmental design. Integration of theory and practice is achieved through design projects at the architectural and the urban scale, as the environmental loops continuously between both. RED Researchinto Environment and Design UEL Project: environmentally-driven urban design Site: Sao Paulo Partners: University of Sao Paulo, University of Birmingham www.uel.ac.uk/ava/links/index.htm research centres s.k.hagan@uel.ac.uk sustainability, environmentalism and the architect what is 'nature?' modernism and 'post-imperial' modernism the new and the renewed vernacular and bioclimatic architecture materials and materiality defining sustainable architecture: 1 symbiosis defining sustainable architecture: 2 differentiation defining sustainable architecture: 3 expression digital vs physical modelling the ideal city, the sustainable city and the architect the compact city: densification, intensification and centralisation loving the suburbs for and against the highrise blurring the boundaries: field theory, ecosystems and cities emptiness landscape and urban agriculture case studies: Malmo, Sao Paulo, London digital city: cyberspace and urban space