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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Norwich University of the Arts
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
BA (Hons) Architecture is your first step towards a successful career as a registered architect or in a related profession. The programme is organised in four streams: design studio, technology and environment, cultural context and professional studies, to equip you with the real-world skills and critical understanding to develop new forms of architectural practice.
This unit aims to develop your ability to perceive, conceive, and make architecture as you begin architectural design studies. A series of carefully designed and sequenced projects/studies will introduce you to a range of architectural skills, ideas and creative challenges. These invite you to discover how the tangible and intangible aspects of architecture are visually and verbally studied, recognised, communicated, appreciated and critically appraised. The most important outcome of this process is an architectural ?outlook?, a way of understanding the value of design, which is unique to the discipline of architecture. You will respond more critically, creatively, and confidently to the design issues posed by each assignment.
This unit will introduce you to the creative design process where building, dwelling and thinking are intertwined. You will design objects, settings and space, enabled by technical and environmental design and supported by consideration of factors and forces that have significance and impact. You will engage with notions of space and place, question the architectural object and explore architecture as ordered space through design projects.
In this intermediate unit, you will encounter architectural design in collective space beyond a simple situated habitat with considerations of the wider impact of technology, environment and purposeful spatial design. This will necessitate strategic consideration as they are many forces that impact on the architectural outcome; most of these will be intangible considerations involving sociology, anthropology, cultural histories, the economy, and the contemporary conditions of collective living. You are expected to propose your designs with formative positions to address the question of architecture connectivity in collective inhabitation.
Architecture and Ideology continues the sequence of your educational pathway. You will confront architectural design and thinking within the legacy of contrasting systems: rural/urban, political/private, and personal/cultural. Networks are explored in design, in the humanities, professional studies and technical/environmental studies and students consider the frameworks and paradigms that determine architectural output. Historical and theoretical studies cover contemporary issues and debates.
This first unit of your third year is concerned with the public realm. One major city will be chosen for spatial exploration and research; the design project will involve either an intervention within an existing neighbourhood or the design and master-planning of a new neighbourhood. You will also develop a 5,000- word Research Report that engages critically with current architectural and cultural theory.
This unit synthesises all the constituent, elemental and contributory streams of teaching and learning. You are tested with a holistic design project capable of addressing overlapping agendas and issues present in the contemporary metropolis and you are expected to work on an integrated design project to a high degree of resolution. Projects are expected to be considerate of culture, public life, technology, climate and environment, and be situated in contextual understanding.
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