Architecture and Planning - BA(Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Bristol

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Why BA(Hons) Architecture and Planning?
The ability to understand the relationship between place, space and built form is essential to successful practice. Applying architectural design to city planning supports the creation of more joined up and humane sustainable environments. Understanding planning and architecture while responding to people, context and sustainability can lead to a new kind of designer. Highly creative architect planners who are able to design from the scale of a city to a door-handle.
Why study our course?
This course is unique in being accredited by both the RIBA and the RTPI, and provides broad-based knowledge and skills encompassing architecture and planning. With the Design Studio at the centre of learning, you will work on conceptual and practical projects across different themes. You will learn CAD, drawing, modelling and mapping to support this. In your third year, you can choose to study in Europe for a year on our established Erasmus programme. During your final year, you will apply learning on a year-long project combining the masterplanning of a complex urban area with rigorous brief development and research, all leading to a final architectural design project.
We have been ranked 6th nationally for Architecture in The Guardian University League Tables 2017.
Real world experience
Some of your practical design projects will involve working with real clients representing local organisations or the community. You will also work with students across related disciplines in an approach reflecting industry. You will assess urban design on day trips and residential field trips. You will also undertake a six-week agency project in an architect's office, local planning authority, or other appropriate organisation.
Where it can take you
With a joint professional qualification, you will be sought after by employers in the UK and abroad. On graduation, you will be equipped for a career as an architect, architect-planner, urban...

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

Start date

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About this course

Professional accreditation
The degree is accredited by both the architectural and planning professions.
It is recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Architects Registration Board (ARB) as giving exemption from RIBA Part 1 examinations.
It is also accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as providing the academic qualifications for entry to the planning profession.
Placements
Students who get work experience are more likely to graduate with a better degree and get higher quality work on graduation. So as well as helping hone your...

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Planning
  • Architecture Planning
  • Architect
  • Project
  • Architectural
  • Approach
  • Teaching
  • Ms Office
  • Office IT
  • University
  • Urban Design
  • Drawing
  • CAD

Course programme

Content

Year 1

You will study the following compulsory modules:

  • Making of Place
  • Healthy and Sustainable Communities
  • Technical Studio 1
  • Studio 1

Year 2

You will study the following compulsory modules:

  • Future Places
  • Research and Design Strategies
  • IT for Designers
  • Studio 2
  • History of Architecture

Year 3

You will study the following compulsory modules:

  • Planning Studio 3: Planning Global Cities
  • Design Studio 3
  • Planning Theory
  • Collaborative Practice
  • Dissertation

Final year

You will study the following compulsory modules:

  • Managing Development
  • Design Studio 4
  • Theories of Architecture and Their Application to Design
  • Agency Project

The core of the student experience is the Design Studio and the creative output of each student. Design Studios are structured around different themes in every year and include a rich variety of conceptual and pragmatic projects. These culminate in the final year with a year-long special study which combines rigorous research and a fully integrated architectural design project. In addition to carrying out design tasks students are introduced to a variety of techniques including CAD, drawing, modelling and mapping.

A strong emphasis of the learning approach will be to engage with current practice in architecture and planning. You will undertake an agency project based in an architect's office, a local planning authority, or other appropriate organisation. The School's inter-professional approach includes projects where you will work with students from other disciplines within the built environment. This encourages mutual respect and understanding of the professions which you are likely to be working with during your career, and helps you to develop and practice the skills of presentation, negotiation, communication, and delegation.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching involves a variety of methods including lectures, seminars, laboratory work, tutorials and computer based techniques.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Student representatives sit on a wide range of committees, where they can influence discussions and decisions which affect your learning experience. Students have set up their own society, BARK, which acts as a support system for students on architecture and design-related courses. The aim is to enable the integration of like-minded students, to actively further their design interests through guest lectures, field-trips, live projects and social events.

Study time

When starting the course at UWE Bristol you register for six years of full-time study, so that you can complete a full architectural education. After four years you will complete the BA(Hons) Architecture and Planning (RIBA Part 1) and then spend a year in an architectural practice. You then proceed to the BArch/MA (RIBA Part 2) course, either at UWE or another institution, which is two years full-time, but may also be taken part-time.

Assessment

A wide range of assessment methods is used, with a balance between coursework and examinations. To support students in the Studios there are tutorials and reviews, visiting practitioners and guest lecturers, consolidated by lecture courses on urban design; history, theories and contexts of architecture and planning; planning policy and implementation; technology and construction; and projects where you work with students of other disciplines, to prepare you for careers where you will work with professionals from related fields.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.

Architecture and Planning - BA(Hons)

£ 9,250 + VAT