Communication and Media Studies (CMS) provides an introduction to the media available to architects and serves as a testing ground for exploring the processes and methods involved in making architecture. Operating a diverse, multidisciplinary range of courses in which unexpected collisions expose rich seams of creative potential, the programme encourages students to interrogate the tools with which we speculate, play, compute, test, communicate, seduce and provoke.

By actively testing modes of production through focused acts of doing and making, CMS presents students with the opportunity to develop individual methods of practice and to hone their intellectual dexterity through both established and progressive media forms. As the concepts and techniques that drive processes of fabrication, computation and representation continue to undergo radical change, the courses deploy a range of tools, from pencil to point-cloud, to both reinforce and reinvent the methods and mechanisms by which students approach design and architecture.