ARCHITECTURE BA Honours
Course summary
Architecture is a fascinating subject involving wide-ranging academic, practical and vocational activities. It requires creativity and imagination, as well as the inventive employment of environmental and technical knowledge.
Architecture is normally studied with a view to becoming a professional architect, but as it embraces the fields of art, history and science, it also opens doors to a range of postgraduate study options and other forms of career development.
At the heart of our course is a rich choice of design studios, in which students are taught in small groups by current practitioners, reflecting London’s dynamic architecture scene. There are also lecture courses in environmental and technical studies, history and theory of architecture, as well as numerous opportunities to engage with the architecture profession through construction site visits, mentoring and a work placement.
Field trips are offered in the second year and there are opportunities to study abroad, with the most recent destinations including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China.
Work experience opportunities
As a graduate from our course, you'll be well prepared for professional practice.
In your second year, you'll visit construction sites to observe and analyse the building process, and will also have the chance to do a work placement offered by our Careers and Employability Service over the summer break.
In the third year, you'll have the option to be mentored by a practising architect, through a collaboration with the RIBA.
All final year students undertake a two-week work-placement in architectural practice or an equivalent alternative, with previous years' destinations including:
- Adjaye Associates Ltd
- Allies and Morrison
- Architype
- Barr Gazetas
- Foster and Partners
- Gort Scott
- Jestico + Whiles + Associates Ltd
- MICA Architects Morris+Company
- Walters & Cohen Architects
In your final year, you'll work on a Major Design Project that forms the basis of a graduate's professional portfolio for employment in an architectural practice as a 'Part 1 year-out' assistant.
Career path
Our graduates find employment with established world-class architects such as Make, Squire and Partners, Foster + Partners, BDP, Sheppard Robson, and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Others seek out dynamic, design-led practices including David Kohn Architects, SODA Studio, and Shigeru Ban.
Alternative career paths can take graduates to multi-disciplinary practices in interior and urban design and planning, or to the client side of architecture for contractors, developers or housing providers.
Graduates also progress to further study or research in technological and environmental subjects related to building design, project or construction management.
As graduates enter the world of architectural practice after graduation, extra support is available through our Professional Experience in Architecture Year Out short course.
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
- Part 1 Architectural Assistant (leading to qualification as an Architect)
- Interior Designer
- Urban Designer
- Project Manager
- Architectural Visualiser
Graduate employers
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
- Grimshaw Architects
- Hopkins Architects
- Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
- Foster + Partners
- Sheppard Robson
- dRMM Architects
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