Course overview

Strike out on your career path to become an architect with this RIBA and ARB Part 1 accredited degree course, which focuses on the interplay between thinking and making to prepare you for professional practice. With access to a dedicated studio environment and well-equipped workshops, you’ll work on live briefs and gain hands-on experience while developing a sustainable, socially engaged approach. You’ll master techniques for understanding places, acquire powerful communication skills and discover how to design for communities and clients in response to environmental issues.

You will:

• Explore sustainable solutions through radical design challenges and proposals, working without concrete or petrochemical-derived insulation materials and focusing on renewable energy sources
• Learn in a collaborative, studio-based environment that simulates real-life workspaces
• Have the opportunity to gain valuable experience through a professional placement
• Work on socially engaged live-build projects for clients such as the Eden Project and the National Trust
• Attend guest lectures by industry experts and have the opportunity to secure your own professional placement
• Access excellent technical facilities, including a range of analogue and digital fabrication processes