Architecture

专业详情

The Architecture Department offers two degrees: Architecture, which offers the quickest route to qualification as an architect; and Design, which combines architecture, engineering and materials science.

Creativity, curiosity and strong intellectual grounding are central to the Architecture course. Our innovative design programme is balanced with outstanding teaching in the history and philosophy of architecture, contemporary culture and urbanism, as well as construction, structural design and environmental design.

Our small, friendly Department has a good staff to student ratio, and the supportive community atmosphere gives students the opportunity to push the boundaries of the field and to extend their own abilities in exciting new directions. Facilities include a superb library, reprographics areas, new digital fabrication laboratory, workshops, and studio spaces for students in all years.

Professional qualification

Successful completion of our full three-year undergraduate course carries exemption from the Architects Registration Board (ARB)/Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Part 1 – the first stage in qualifying as an architect.

The Department offers two routes to professional accreditation (ARB/RIBA Parts 2 and 3):

• A full-time, two-year Master of Architecture (MArch) course, which carries exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 2, followed by a one year, part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice which carries ARB/RIBA Part 3 exemption.
• A part-time, four year MSt Apprenticeship, during which you work throughout.

When you have completed all three parts of the ARB/RIBA requirements, you will be able to register as an architect with the ARB.