LULU Landscape and Urbanism – Manchester School of Architecture

LULU Landscape + Urbanism

LULU Landscape & Urbanism is a newly formed MArch atelier embedded within URBED+, a wider partnership between Manchester School of Architecture and award-winning consultancy URBED. URBED+ is an innovative, cross-sector vehicle that combines academia and practice to pursue research, advocacy and education. Through URBED+, the atelier benefits from both cutting-edge research and practice-based knowledge, across the wide range of specialist disciplines pertinent to its agenda, including urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, sustainability and real estate.

Urbanism is complex, conflictive and multi-disciplinary. The client is multiple, control is partial, the program indeterminate and there is no state of completion. The primary aim of this atelier is to prepare students to understand and to successfully participate and intervene in this process of urban design. In combination with design tutorials, focused specialist workshops target specific skills and knowledge, including ‘Density, Layout and Typology’, ‘Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods’, ‘Environmental Design & Performance’, ‘Landscape & Public Space Design’, ‘Theory’, ‘Walking as an Urban Design Tool’, ‘Financial Feasibility’ and a ‘Masterplanning Masterclass’.