BA (Hons) Architecture

Ready to channel and apply your creative impulses and imagination to real-world built environment problems? Through critical thinking, hands-on work with a community of expert practitioners, designing and making, our professionally accredited architecture degree will give you the experience, skills and resilience to become a progressive thinker who can confidently design sustainable and inclusive solutions to our planet’s future challenges.

Course details

In the first year, you’ll develop awareness of basic principles of architecture, explored in parallel with developing knowledge and key skills. Building on this, you will be challenged to interrogate the meaning and role of architecture through experimentation and testing through making.
  • Mode of study: 3-4 days  a week
  • Intake: Intakes: September
  • Course length: 3-4 years
  • Course fee: 9250 per year
  • Location: Plymouth campus

Plymouth University

Course overview

Through critical thinking, hands-on work with a community of expert practitioners, designing and making, our professionally accredited architecture degree will give you the experience, skills and resilience to become a progressive thinker who can confidently design sustainable and inclusive solutions to our planet’s future challenges.

Benefits

Entry requirements

  • UCAS tariff
  • 104 – 136
  • Digital portfolio
    You will be required to submit a digital portfolio demonstrating a range of creative skill sets.
    Advice on how to create and submit your portfolio.
  • A level
    A minimum of two A levels; General Studies accepted.
  • International Baccalaureate
    26–34 points.
  • 18 Unit BTEC National Diploma/QCF Extended Diploma
    DMM-DDM (Distinction Distinction Merit).

Careers

This degree can set you on the right path to become a professionally qualified architect.

 

The skills you’ll learn on this course will be beneficial to you in your working life, regardless of your chosen career direction.

Through this course, you’ll become a confident critical thinker with an ethical stance – this will set you up to engage with – and respond to – the challenges faced by our society.

Modules

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

 

  • Communication 4.1 (COMM411)
  • Design Studio 4.1 (DESN411)
  • Integrated Design 4.2 (DESN412)
  • History Theory and Critical Context 4.2 (HTCC412)
  • Technology 4.1 (TECN411)
  • Design Studio and Communication 5.1 (DSCM511)
  • Design Studio + Communication 5.2 (DSCM512)
  • Critical Context 5.1 (HTCC511)
  • Common Challenge: Technology 5.2 (TECN512)
  • Common Dissertation: Critical Practices (ADA600)
  • Design Studio + Communication 6.1 (DSCM611)
  • Design Studio and Communication 6.2 (DSCM612)
  • Technology 6.2 (TECN612)