Course summary

• Participate in an innovative learning experience focusing on critical design, ecological attitudes and the role of architecture in society.
• Explore diverse, cutting-edge forms of architectural practice.
• Develop a global understanding of the subject on overseas field trips.
• Engage in exciting projects alongside diverse communities, organisations and architects.

On this two-year course route, you will produce refined design and research projects - developing advanced skills in curating, and producing work for public, professional and community audiences. The course promotes and delivers excellence in building and urban design, and explores architecture as a complex, interdisciplinary and dynamic ecology. You’ll graduate not only with a Part 2 architecture qualification, but with a rigorously developed and creatively explored position within the discipline.

We also offer a degree apprenticeship version of this course, where you study alongside 30+ hours of employment a week.

How you learn

On this course, you'll experience creative studio teaching culture, and develop critical skills for future career in architecture.

We use our extensive local, national and international networks of architects to inspire and inform your work - allowing you to explore the subject in all its diversity.

The course provides a friendly, supportive and yet challenging experience, to which your own input and expertise is essential. Based around principles of collaboration, the course has three main agendas: The Praxis of Architecture, Social and Political Design, and Ecologies of Architecture.

You learn through

• design portfolio
• lectures
• workshop sessions
• coursework
• exhibitions
• essays and reports
• field trips and practice visits

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• architecture
• design
• planning and urban design
• various spatial practices
• research and academia
• construction