Architecture

Explore experimental design approaches and develop your understanding of the role of tectonics and climate in driving architectural design. You'll explore briefs that challenge existing building typologies and explore various stages of the design development process.

This module aims to enhance your appreciation of climatic challenges and further develop your skills to address, analyse and engage environmental, social, and economic aspects integral to transitioning to a sustainable built environment. This module underpins themes of equity, inclusivity, efficiency, accessibility, regeneration, and future-proofing.

This module advances the concepts and theories introduced in Year 1. It aims to appraise alternative structural, constructional, and material systems relevant to architectural design; explore the inter-relationship between the aesthetics of architectural design, technical requirements of construction and the needs of buildings users. You'll also explore the interdependences of structures, materials and construction in relation to the sustainable integration of technology into architectural design.

You'll be encouraged to develop an understanding of what architectural theory is and its relationship to the practice of architecture. The module will provide a specific emphasis on the principles of architectural theory by exposing and discussing various architectural debates, both historical and contemporary. This module reinforces the position of the architect in the present and introduces you to the various ways by which contexts, ideologies, politics and environment affect architectural theories and thus practice.

This module will allow you to utilise the knowledge, skills and abilities that you've developed throughout your degree. You'll develop your abilities towards completing a comprehensive design that embodies all aspects of architectural design producing an appropriate and enriching environment. Through this module, you'll develop a level of autonomy to form your own paths into the architectural profession.

Engaging with experts, the module aims to introduce you to multi/interdisciplinary thinking and practices integral to the construction industry. This will help you gain an understanding of the wider contributors to the construction industry. You'll explore emerging and future trends in the sustainable built environment as well as actors beyond the field of architecture.

This module aims to introduce professionalism, practice management, job running, working within the legal and regulatory framework, understanding clients and the importance of cost. You'll reflect on your career aspirations and develop the thinking and communication skills that are needed to respond and adapt to the changes within the construction industry.

This module is the third and final part of an undergraduate Architectural Humanities strand. The module examines The Context as a Public Project to develop your knowledge of the forces at play in the built environment. More specifically, an understanding of the place as a public composition that is influenced by multiple power structures and economic and cultural forces.