Course description
BA Architecture
Programme
Year 1
* Gain awareness of your own creativity through drawing, model making, writing and verbal argument
* Develop your skills, confidence and critical understanding of architecture and the environment
* Work in the studio with your colleagues on design projects
* Study the history and theories of architecture
* In parallel, a basic grounding in history; theory; structures; construction; energetics and services is developed through lectures, seminars and tutorials and provides the intellectual stimulus for design innovation
Year 2
* Engage in studio-based design challenges and explore building and place design in context
* Focus on sustainable technology, materials and building performance
* Study the history and theories of 20th-century architecture
* At each stage you will have the opportunity to travel abroad and within the UK to study real places and buildings
Year 3
* Integrate your ideas about form, place, use and appropriate technology in the studio
* Complete high-quality presentations with computer visualisations and detailed models as part of the design process
* Explore your concerns about architecture in a major essay
* Investigate ideas about architectural conservation
* Professional studies provides an insight into design practice, enabling you to become an effective, informed member of a team in your year out following graduation
* Successful completion of the honours degree provides exemption from Part I of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Examination