Architecture

Become a forward-thinking architect, tackling the challenges of tomorrow by crafting sustainable, inclusive spaces. Our accredited degree blends critical thinking, hands-on designing and making, with the support of expert practitioners.

Climate responsive design
Tackle climate challenges head-on by designing low-carbon, future-proof architecture using sustainable methods and eco-friendly technologies.

Hands-on experience
Build real projects, manage live briefs, and develop practical skills in our cutting-edge labs, workshops and studios. You'll graduate fully prepared to thrive in a professional environment.

Architecture for everyone
Design with purpose: celebrate local identity, promote social equity, and give voice to underrepresented communities through architecture that matters.

This course is for you if...

• you're driven to rethink how we design the world around us, and ready to shape the future of architecture

• you're excited by hands-on learning through live design projects, field trips, and interdisciplinary collaboration

• you want to study in a vibrant, collaborative studio culture with access to cutting-edge facilities

• you're passionate about designing spaces that respond to real-world environmental and social challenges.

Year 1
In the first year, you’ll develop awareness of basic principles of architecture, explored in parallel with developing knowledge and key skills. Building on this, you will be challenged to interrogate the meaning and role of architecture through experimentation and testing through making. Your learning will be guided by various projects engaging with co-joined issues of environment and people. The main learning activities will be pursued within a trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural environment.

Year 2
The second year is coordinated to scaffold design in broader social and urban settings. An emphasis is on collaborative work in teams and professional contexts to explore architecture through contemporary social challenges, notably: changing patterns of living and working in urban communities. Working with advancing media, second-year students further the communicative skill set, and build a critical understanding of the role of design, making, and the built environment in the reproduction of daily life.

Final year
Third year is outward facing. It enables students to work on a range of scales, from master planning to architectural details. Live projects activate participatory consultation and interdisciplinary collaboration to respond to current global challenges. Vertical learning across the second and third year in the final semester fosters peer-to-peer learning. Students apply their own theoretical preoccupations into the design studio environment and graduate with a discursive portfolio.

For up to date details, please refer to our website or contact the institution directly.

For up to date details, please refer to our website or contact the institution directly.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Royal Institute of British Architects

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS