Architecture Class Part 2 Project 2024 Maria Wood Newcastle University | UK ‘Architecture Class’ responds to the underrepresentation and exclusion of people from working-class backgrounds in areas related to architecture and the built environment. Class inequality is particularly prevalent in the culture of architectural education. Because of the strict, regulated routes to qualifying as an architect within the UK, the culture of architecture school undoubtedly impacts the wider profession.The thesis proposes an alternative way of learning architecture, where architecture students and students learning building trades or crafts work collaboratively on live build projects, building their own school facilities, as well as designing for the community in which they are situated. The school buildings become part of the community’s social infrastructure, designed as shared use facilities, with an end use for the community when the school moves to a new site at the end of its five-year cycle.This model for education is also about improving access to architecture on a wider community level, not just for future architects. It is designed to help to break the closed cycles of social, cultural and educational reproduction that exist within architectural education, offering an alternative route which is collaborative, transparent and multidisciplinary, creating a profession of socially aware building professionals and tradespeople. Tutor(s) Adam Sharr