The course is designed for architecture professionals who wish to increase their technical expertise or specialise in this rapidly evolving area; the course enhances students awareness of the digital technology used in contemporary practices; it is designed to be directly relevant to practice; students conduct a series of advanced architectural design research experiments which are augmented by seminars on emergent design theories and workshops on advanced modelling, computational and generative systems; students are treated as design research professionals, documenting and archiving their research while in progress.