This cohort of graduating Architecture students are the final year who enrolled under the Professorship of Nigel Coates (1995–2011). The work accordingly pursues speculative cultural themes, within the aegis of five Architectural Design Studios. Each ADS presents urban themes with an edge, creating the context for the individual thesis design projects illustrated. The projects are based in London, and reflect lives that Londoners lead, or might want to lead. The research and proposals challenge everyday preconceptions about what constitutes architecture and the city, form links between the present and the future, and question the role that architects and architecture should take.


The School of Architecture under the new leadership of Professor Alex de Rijke is changing, preparing for a period of growth and intense creativity across all areas, acknowledging emerging relations between art and technology, and embracing the culture of construction as a site of wider design intentions. The unique quality of critical independent thought and provocative experiment that Architecture students have maintained at the RCA remains, albeit overlaid with new agendas.