Architecture ba(hons)

Year 1

In year 1 you'll begin with modules which build on your direct experience of architecture, working from precedents and everyday spaces. Modules build on and support one other, gradually becoming specialised in the four main themes: design, humanities, technology, and professional practices.

• Experiencing Architecture

  This module will expose you to the essential architectural concerns of the body in space, the occupation of an actual site, and the impact of a spatial intervention on a place. Your first design project introduces you to the skills and techniques to serve you as a young architectural designer.

• Design, Technology and Professional Practices

  This module will expose you to a broad range of architectural concerns, from site context through to material construction. You will develop and expand upon investigations and skills initiated earlier in the academic year to produce a design for a small to medium sized building in response to a given brief.

• Architectural Humanities 1

  The module introduces you to the history and theory of architecture. It pays particular attention to the development of modern architecture since the 18th century. This will include its sociopolitical, cultural, and environmental contexts as well as its relations to traditional building and non-Western architecture. You will learn to interpret writings and buildings, to develop your reading and writing skills, and to make use of the fundamental conventions of academic writing.

• Reading Architecture

  This module will introduce you to different approaches that can be applied to analyse buildings, through the lenses of design, humanities and technology. Deconstructing a building through these lenses will lead you to a deeper understanding of architectural design considerations; this is an essential knowledge base that can be carried forward to your future design work.