About the Courses
Ready to channel and apply your creative impulses and imagination to real-world built environment problems? Through critical thinking, hands-on work with a community of expert practitioners, designing and making, our professionally accredited architecture degree will give you the experience, skills and resilience to become a progressive thinker who can confidently design sustainable and inclusive solutions to our planet’s future challenges.
Ready to channel and apply your creative impulses and imagination to real-world built environment problems? Through critical thinking, hands-on work with a community of expert practitioners, designing and making, our professionally accredited architecture degree will give you the experience, skills and resilience to become a progressive thinker who can confidently design sustainable and inclusive solutions to our planet’s future challenges.
Modules
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.
Core modules
Communication 4.1 (COMM411)
This module will introduce students to architectural presentation and representation skills. Underlying this intention will be to mainly support design studio work, especially to explore and develop the skills to discover how to communicate your ideas in two dimensional and three dimensional visual form.
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.
Core modules
Design Studio and Communication 5.1 (DSCM521)
In this module through both individual and group work, exploratory, analytical studies undertaking an architectural design project in the context of a social residential framework and to explore and understand modes of representation that can inform how an architectural project is represented, using both analogue and digital techniques for exploring and developing creative and critical thinking (i.e. design and representational) skills. This module enables students to develop their representation toolkit and mixed media design skills, by delivering lectures, workshops and online tutorial sessions focused on professional collaborative contexts and the use of advancing media and Building Information Management protocols.