The Bartlett

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The Bartlett is the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. University College London created the first chair of architecture in 1841, and the school is named after the original benefactor, Sir Herbert Bartlett.

The Bartlett attracts a wide variety of visiting speakers and over the years has played host to key figures of the architectural world including Bernard Tschumi, Charles Jencks and Neil Denari.

The Bartlett has long rivalled with the Architectural Association in London to be one of leading UK architectural schools.

Alumni include Ken Adam, the production designer responsible for numerous Bond films, Dr. Strangelove and the Madness of King George. Other graduates of the school have gone to play leading roles in the most influential practices across the globe.

On 2 December 2004 The Guardian named Bartlett alumni softroom as among the leading up and coming architects in Britain [1].

The Bartlett's Planning department, located on the fourth floor, makes a further important contribution to the understanding of the built environment.

In 2006, readers of ‘Architects’ Journal’ have once again judged UCL Bartlett to be the top UK school of architecture. In the annual AJ100 poll of the UK’s 100 largest architectural practices, UCL Bartlett attracted a quarter of all votes cast, comfortably seeing off rivals Oxford Brookes (second place, 11% of the vote), Glasgow School of Art (joint third, 9%), Sheffield University (joint third, 9%) and the Architectural Association (fifth, 8%).

It is the third consecutive year that UCL Bartlett has secured this honour, and sees the margin between the school and its opposition widen to 14%, up from 9% in 2005.

Professor Iain Borden, director of the school, said: “Sometimes it is worth blowing our own trumpet … and at other times we can let others do it for us. Congratulations to all students, graduates and staff – very well done indeed.”

[edit] Notable Professors

Peter Cook, former Chair of Architecture (retired 2005) and founder member of Archigram
Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Urban Planning and Regeneration, famous town planner and urban theorist
Colin Fournier architect of Kunsthaus Graz
Bill Hillier, Chair of Graduate Studies and originator of Space Syntax
Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, and Head of the Bartlett School of Architecture
Christine Hawley, architect and Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment