Emergent Technologies and Design Programme (inaugurated in 2001) is open to graduates in architecture  and  engineering  who  wish  to  develop  skills  and  pursue  knowledge  in  architectural  design science  that  is  located  in  new  production  paradigms.

We continue to investigate new synergies of architecture and ecology through the critical intersection of computational design and fabrication. Our focus is on exploring experiential and social potentials of new material and spatial configurations for architectural and ecological urban designs situated in the dynamic contexts of emerging biomes. The programme is designed to stimulate critical thinking through experience of research driven design projects. Our projects are pursued by multiple iterations through hypothesis, material and computational experimentation, robotic fabrication, and evaluation; reflected upon in verbal presentations and group discussions and documented in analytical and scientifically structured papers.

Our Masters (M.Arch./M.Sc.) programme has two distinct phases - the Studio and the Dissertation. Both Studio and the Dissertation are aligned with and supported by the research of the programme team and the advanced expertise our alumni. The Studio comprises workshops, seminars design projects that are led by EmTech staff and our associated researchers and offers a creative and intellectually rigorous sequence of study that builds knowledge and skill. The Dissertation Research Studio extends the acquisition of research competencies through extensive collaborative dialogue with EmTech's research community of active Post Doc researchers and PhD candidates.

Design & Build is our 'extracurricular' collaborative student project and is an essential part of the pedagogy and culture of EmTech. It runs right through the year, alongside both Studio and the Dissertation, and provides opportunities to design and deliver a built project with real material, structural, fabrication and assembly constraints. Our Design & Build projects have been published internationally in the architectural press since 2001 and have received industry awards.

Programme Director

Dr. Elif Erdine

Founding Director

Dr. Michael Weinstock

Studio Tutors
Alican Sungur, Eleana Polychronaki, Abhinav Chaudhary, Lorenzo Santelli

Teaching Assistant 

Milad Showkatbakhsh

And our distinguished colleague

Emeritus Professor Dr.  George Jeronimidis

Partners and Sponsors

Buro Happold Engineering

Lecturers / Guest Critics 

Xavier de Kestelier, HASSELL Studio

Andy Watts, Grimshaw

Pablo Zamorano, Heatherwick Studio

Camila Rock De Luigi, Grimshaw 

Nicolo Bencini, Buro Happold Engineering

Eduardo Rico, Architectural Association

MSc students 2018/19

Jia Wen Hu, Sri Krishna Subramanya Bhat, Nikolai Vladimirov, Fun Yuen (with Distinction) 

MArch students 2018/20: Aysu Aysoy, Medha Bansal, Adelina Koleva, Archit Mathur, Saumil Nagar, Yukie Takasu, Kai Yeh

Current students 2019/21: Alyina Ahmed, Mohamed Owaze Ansari, Dhwani Ramnarayan Bisani, Jong In Choi, Yousra Elshafeei, Maria Luiza Gomes Torres, Berin Nur Kocabas, Weiting Kong, Felipe Oeyen, John Elliot Ouchterlony, Paravee Pokawatthananurak, Devaiah Ponnimada Ashok, Debolina Ray, Maximo Tettamanzi, Yi Zhang