Architecture is about more than buildings - it’s about shaping communities, responding to environmental challenges, and creating spaces that improve people’s lives. On this architecture degree, you’ll develop a broad, multidisciplinary skillset grounded in design, critical thinking, technology, and culture, giving you the knowledge and confidence to make a meaningful impact on the built environment.
Why study this degree?
Architecture courses at Ravensbourne University London are built around shared studios, where you learn alongside students across architecture, landscape, design engineering and interiors - while also going deep within your own specialism. This reflects how the industry actually works: collaboratively, across disciplines, with a focus on real-world outcomes.
Integrated Foundation Year
The Integrated Foundation Year is a chance to ask big questions, explore remarkable architectural projects, and develop the skills you need to thrive on one of our spatial design courses. You’ll be part of a dynamic cluster, learning and collaborating with peers across our built environment courses in a creative studio environment.
Modules include:
Design, Media and Representation I
Introduction to Professional Context: Spatial Practices
Exploring: Culture and Context
Design, Media and Representation II
Introduction to Professional Context: Cross-Disciplinary Practices
Influencing: Culture and Context
After you have completed your Integrated Foundation Year, you will study the following:
Year 1
Your first year grounds you in the fundamentals of architectural representation - through drawing, making, and working with your hands. Studio life is at the centre of everything, as you learn to collect ideas, create with intention, and collaborate with others. Underpinning it all: history, theory, technology, and the professional skills that shape a life in architecture.
Modules may include:
Rave Beginnings
Design Studio I: Thinking and Making Structures
Professional Practice: Role, Identity and Responsibility
Research Studio I: Place, Memory and Making
Design Studio II: Form and Structure
Year 2
The second year extends the programme into urban contexts, with a focus on the spaces between buildings. Students explore how historical and theoretical forces shape cities, engage with branded environments and community participation, and develop sustainable approaches within their design practice.
Modules may include:
Research Studio II: Mapping the City
Design Studio III: Urban Intervention
Critical Reconstruction
Design Studio IV: Urban Proposition
Professional Practice: Live Practice
Year 3
Your final year is where your personal and professional voice fully emerges. You'll undertake an industry-led competition brief, pursue independent research, and build professional and entrepreneurial skills - culminating in a portfolio that prepares you for practice.
Modules may include:
Integrated Collaborative Practice
Research Studio III: Research by Practice
Final Major Project I: Project Proposition
Professional Practice: Situating your Practice
Final Major Project II: Project Delivery
All modules are subject to revalidation.
You'll explore architectural form-making, sustainability principles in the built environment, parametric and computer generated design, techniques for designing structures and rapid prototyping, architectural history, theory and context, business enterprise for design and regulatory frameworks, new developments in urban design and new developments
in architecture/design projects around the world. For more information, please visit the course page on our website.
You will be continually assessed on your values and attitudes, cognitive, intellectual, practical, and professional skills. Knowledge and understanding are evaluated through individual and group presentations, written and reflective work, and design projects in a manner appropriate for each unit. Visit our website for additional details.
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
Ravensbourne University London has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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What does this TEF outcome mean?
The following entry points are available for this course:
At Ravensbourne we take a transparent approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. This doesn't mean our standards are lower, in fact the average UCAS tariff of our students is higher than some other universities in London, so you'll be joining a diverse community of creatives.
We still think exams are important and look forward to hearing about your successes in the summer, but we place more importance on the work you will share with us as part of our interview and/or portfolio process.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 5.5 | IELTS: 5.5 overall with 5.5 in each component of the test. |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 72 | TOEFL iBT: 72 points overall including minimum Reading 18, Listening 17, Speaking 20, Writing 17. We cannot accept TOEFL iBT Home Edition test. All tests must be taken in person at a test centre. |
| PTE Academic | 59 | PTE Academic or SELT: 59 overall with minimum 59 in each component of the test. |
| Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College London B2 SELT ISE II: Pass overall with Pass in each component of the test. |
Ravensbourne English Language Requirementshttps://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/international-students/entry-requirements-and-visas/english-language-requirements
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Fees for UK, Republic of Ireland, and Channel Islands students are subject to increase for subsequent years of enrolment to the maximum capped level set by the UK Government (currently £9,790).
Fees for EU and International students will be subject to an inflationary-linked rise for subsequent years of enrolment.
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