Architecture

Explore the relationship between people and spaces on our BA (Hons) Architecture course. Begin your education as an architect at one of the oldest and well regarded schools of architecture in the UK.

You'll learn to:

• draw
• model
• think, discuss and write about architecture
• and realise your design concepts using technology.  

We have dedicated, purpose-designed studios and workshop facilities. You'll work on live design projects for real clients and visit outstanding examples of architecture. 

You are taught by industry-leading academics who support your creativity and foster your potential. You'll have extensive contact time with your tutors, including two design studio days per week.

You'll graduate with transferable skills in design, digital making and representation, team-working and problem-solving. You will also develop a portfolio of work key to gaining employment.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for OMA, Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma Architects and Thomas Heatherwick Studio.
 

• Thawawaya/General Secondary Education Certificate PLUS a recognised foundation course.
• Please check the individual course page and use the equivalency table at the link below to work out the specific requirements for your course.

Students from the school figure regularly in national and international prizes and awards and go on to work for many of the best-known practices in the country, such as Andrew Chard, winner of the prestigious RIBA Sergeant Drawing Prize.

Recent graduates have worked for large internationally renowned architectural practices such as Rogers Stirk Harbour, Grimshaw Architects, Thomas Heatherwick and Foster and Partners as well as cutting-edge, up-and-coming practices such as Make, Kengo Kuma and Raumlabor.

Successful completion of the honours degree RIBA / ARB Part 1 programme is the prerequisite qualification for progression through a total of five years' study and two years' practice which lead to registration as an architect in the UK.

Most students, having achieved the honours degree in Architecture, go on to a placement year in practice before returning for a further two years of postgraduate study. Others use their highly sought after design skills to work in related disciplines such as digital design, urban design, product design, journalism, set design, planning, academia, disaster and emergency practice. Oxford Brookes graduates and founder directors of animation-architecture studio, Factory 15 use their architectural and digital modelling skills to create original work for the film industry.

The study of architecture at degree level can also be seen as a good grounding for other careers. You acquire a wide range of transferable skills:

• skills in design, communication and high-level digital representation
• teamworking, leadership and problem-solving skills
• the ability to apply technology to design
• an awareness of the construction industry and different forms of practice
• critical reading and writing skills in relation to the wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts which underpin the practice of architecture.