Architecture

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This unique degree integrates creative and technical knowledge in architecture, structural and building services engineering.
Focusing on studio-based architectural design projects, you’ll gain a critical understanding of how science, the arts and society are brought together through creative building design projects. You’ll develop a scientific and creative approach to building design, supported by learning in architectural history & theory, urban design, structures, construction, materials and building physics.
You’ll build in-depth knowledge of architectural principles as well as applied science and technology, exploring creative design issues through drawings and models, developing presentation and computer modelling skills using industry-standard software.
This course is a four-year degree. If you choose to finish after three years, you will graduate with a BEng in Architectural Engineering.
Specialist facilities
Architectural design project learning is based in a new flexible design studio where, supported by our team of academic and practicing architects and engineers, you will benefit from a collaborative and interactive environment.
In addition to the design studio space, you’ll have access to excellent laboratory facilities as well as extensive library facilities and computing equipment, including industry standard software such as Revit (Building Information Modelling), IES (dynamic thermal modelling) and Robot (structural analysis). The laboratory facilities, which are among the best in the UK, include specialist facilities for structures, materials, public health engineering, building services and geotechnics.
Architecture students attend a residential surveying field course in year 1 and a residential architectural study period in a European city in year 3. These are compulsory parts of the architecture programme – there are no additional fees to pay for either of these field courses.
Accreditation

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: AAA including Mathematics.
Where an A-Level Science subject is taken, we require a pass in the practical science element, alongside the achievement of the A-Level at the stated grade.
Excludes A-Levels General Studies and Critical Thinking.
Extended Project Qualification - We recognise the value, effort and enthusiasm applicants make in the Extended Project, and where an applicant offers an A in the EPQ we may make an offer of AAB at A-Level (any required subjects such as Mathematics must still be at grade A)..
All applicants must be studying Mathematics...

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Subjects

  • Approach
  • Surveying
  • Design
  • Construction
  • Urban Design
  • Materials
  • School
  • Project
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Engineering
  • Architectural
  • Construction Training
  • GCSE Physics
  • Structural Design

Course programme

The course integrates creative and technical knowledge in architecture, structural and building services engineering, all delivered within one school. This is reinforced by our strong involvement with research and practice, with creative design issues being explored in practical, real world project settings.

All degree courses within the School share a common first year of six compulsory modules. These expose you to the range of programmes offered within the school and provide a firm basis on which to specialise in later years – as well as giving you the flexibility to switch between these courses.

In Year 2 you’ll consolidate your technical knowledge of structural design and analysis, materials and geotechnics, as well as building physics. You’ll also develop a more academic approach to architectural history & theory, which is delivered in collaboration with the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies. As with Year 1, the design studio is the core through which you develop your learning in architectural design projects.

You’ll focus more on the architectural design projects in Year 3 and work on urban design issues in your study of architectural history and theory, which is linked to your architecture design studio and a study visit to a European city. You’ll enhance your technical knowledge in structures and building physics, and demonstrate an integrated understanding of creative and technical building design in your design studio work.

In your final year you will focus on design studio work. Your architecture design projects will be linked to research-focused modules in architectural history & theory, building physics and the context of the construction industry in architectural management, practice and law. In Semester 2, you’ll concentrate on a sophisticated architectural design project where significant parts of the brief, development and execution are largely set by you. Your project will demonstrate a fully integrated architectural design including structure and building services, to a high standard of visual communication skills.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Architecture and Environment 20 credits
  • Engineering Surveying and Construction Technology 20 credits
  • Structural Design and Analysis 20 credits
  • Properties of Materials: Water, Soil, Steel and Timber 20 credits
  • Engineering Mathematics and Modelling 1 20 credits
  • Integrated Design Project 1 (inc Design Studio 1) 20 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Structural Design 1 20 credits
  • Architectural History and Theory 2 10 credits
  • Civil Engineering Materials II 10 credits
  • Structural Analysis 1 10 credits
  • Water Engineering and Geotechnics 20 credits
  • Engineering Mathematics and Modelling 2 20 credits
  • Building Physics 1: Fundamental Principles 10 credits
  • Design Studio 2 20 credits

Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Structural Design 2 20 credits
  • Architectural History and Theory 3 10 credits
  • Structural Analysis 2 10 credits
  • Foundation Engineering Fundamentals 10 credits
  • Building Physics 2: Services Design 10 credits
  • Design Studio 3.1 30 credits
  • Design Studio 3.2 30 credits

Year 4

Compulsory modules

  • Architectural History and Theory 4 15 credits

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