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This course has been created as a direct response to the changing needs of architectural practise, to rethink the possibilities for the graduating architect and reimagine the relationships between professions. It sees value and unlimited potential in the multidisciplinary school in which it is situated.
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The educational model is grounded with early real world experience and practical applications allowing creativity and imagination to flourish rather than be limited by it. It is focused on the craft of architecture, on the processes of designing, constructing and occupying buildings.
The course provides the breadth of knowledge required of the architectural discipline as a profession along with an increased focus on building science, business acumen and digital design and fabrication to give graduates the ability to make an immediate impact in practise. The course is taught by a diverse mix of international experts dedicated to student experience and growth.
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We are committed to the provision of an exceptional educational experience with small cohorts of 40 to 60 students. Where many other architecture courses have increased their numbers, our approach is to focus on quality over quantity allowing for significant dialogue with tutors and excellent access to facilities.
The School’s exceptional resource support includes a dedicated workspace from day one within our open-plan studio spaces which allow for the cross-fertilisation of ideas between years and the formation of a lively, tight-knit creative culture for peer-to-peer support and learning. Further, every student will receive a graphics tablet for Part A of their studies, loaded with all the software to succeed on the course. The student experience is enhanced from practitioner engagement and contributions to the teaching delivery along with opportunities to participate in ‘live’ build projects.
Professional Accreditation - RIBA / ARB
This degree course is accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
The visiting boards commended the School for its innovative pedagogy, investment in facilities and staff including dedicated studio space, collegiality and enthusiasm of staff and personalised student experience and is Prescribed by the Architects Registration Board (ARB).
Key course features
We have developed a number of key features that we feel collectively sets our course apart from others and creates a unique flavour of architectural education.
By developing a new course at this time we are in a strong position to address the recent RIBA recommendations enabling us to deliver an innovative course in terms of content, delivery, timeframe and structure.
We offer a BArch degree which brings the elements of a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) together to allow our students’ creativity to flourish with a sound technical understanding.
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‘Live’ build projects
Design and Fabrication
Students will have the opportunity to construct their design ideas as ‘live’ projects on our large, evolving green campus and engage the wider local community members and organisations through such initiatives as the University’s Edible Campus project.
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Integrated placement year
Theory and practise
Early exposure to practise exploits the University’s long history of learning through production and practical implementation. The course is one of only two undergraduate architecture courses that require a placement year as part of the undergraduate education. The paid experience can count as RIBA’s Professional Practise Experience (PPE).
Design leadership
Collaborative over individual
The course stresses multidisciplinary learning with every year containing modules that are co-taught with students from other courses, providing opportunities to appreciate and engage with other school disciplines and broader design professions.
Year-long modules
Education over assessment
The course will foster the opportunity for deeper learning and understanding of fundamental aspects of Architecture through year-long modules. This format reduces summative assessment and makes more efficient use of exam weeks.
Culture of making
Mind and hands
Taking advantage of our exceptional lab facilities and engineering expertise, students will be immersed in hands-on experiences that cultivate a deep understanding of materials, their properties and technical capabilities that inform the craft of architecture.
Research rigour
Evidence and intuition
Ranked 1st for Building research in the Times Good University Guide 2018, the cutting-edge knowledge that flows from this informs the content of the course. Students will learn from year one how to conduct evidence-based design as a way to underpin their design intuition.
Practitioner integration
Creative Community
Modules are coordinated with workshops that bring in leading practitioners and experts in other fields to provide intense learning experiences to enhance motivation, knowledge and skill development.
Study abroad opportunity
Here and there
The School has two existing exchange courses: ERASMUS and International with top international universities that will allow interested students to study abroad. New relationships have begun to emerge including Summer School opportunities.
Design management
Savvy over naïve
Practitioners often complain that graduates have poor business skills; this shortcoming strongly relates to one of the school’s core strengths focused on design, cost, time and value management.
Alternative measures
Process and product
Design is about more than just form and imagery; identifying one’s own design process and designing for construction and occupation are key.
Student work
The images shown are sample student work from our first year students.
Orsi Kacso
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Claudia Johnson
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Daniel Jordan
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Romy Curtis
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Phil Newsom
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Luke Burns
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Alvin Luy
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Danel Van Resenburg
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Romy Curtis, Alvin Luy, Hugo Lam and Laura Trewern
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Joris Veerisick
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Phil Newsom, Pippa Farmer, Orsi Kacso and James Fitzmaurice
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Jamie Goodge
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Katey Oven
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Hugo Lam
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Our facilities
Our own building allows small cohorts to work across two levels of open plan studio space to allow the cross-fertilisation of ideas between years and the formation of a lively, tight-knit culture for peer-to-peer support and learning.
Other facilities include an analogue workshop for wood, metal and plastic and a digital fabrication lab equipped with state-of-the-art 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC machines.
Keith Green Building
The devoted home to Architecture. Rather than treating the building as a finished object, it will be used as a ‘living’ lab – a tactile and interactive part of our teaching and research environment. For example, the fully glazed south west facade for the studio spaces will contain dynamic electro chromatic glazing. The tint level will respond to the amount of light detected by a number of sensors placed on the exterior of the building.
Hewson Studio
Our Hewson Studio will provide an additional double-height studio space for our students to undertake studio and design modules in an open-plan and well-lit environment, which is ideal for boosting creativity and bringing projects to life.
Archi-quad
An open green space in front of the Architecture building which will become a lively, interactive test ground for architectural interventions as it evolves as the place to ‘hang out’.
The Factory
Sir Frank Gibb Laboratories
The School has over 3,000sqm of lab space spread across materials, geotechnics, structures, building energy, hydraulic engineering and more. The lab space is in the process of refurbishment to create a dedicated analogue workshop, a digital fabrication lab, a large double-height assembly space and mixed reality and robotics research lab (MR3L) all of which will allow students to test and explore ideas.
STEMLab
The university’s dedicated engineering facility full of state-of-the-art workshop, digital fabrication and computer laboratories.
Igloo
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A virtual reality dome shared across engineering.
Sir Frank Gibb Building
The building is the home of teaching and research for the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, including for all the other courses within our school too.
Test Houses
The school owns several test homes where research is conducted with various monitoring technologies.
Contact us
General enquires: BArch.Adm@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk
Course leader (Dr Simon Richards): S.Richards@lboro.ac.uk