You’ll take the first step to becoming an Architect – an exciting career pathway that influences a fast-paced industry in a rapidly changing world. We’ll encourage you to bring your imagination to life, challenge perceptions and become a future-focused design creative who explores ways to improve and enhance the lives of other people. At University and course level, we understand the importance of sustainability and energy use in the future of buildings and the wider built environment. The course boldly embraces the notion of retrofit-first in all its teaching while promoting sustainable design as a compulsory component of any proposal. This means that the projects you’ll work with will, in most cases, engage with existing buildings- promoting reuse, adaptation, upcycle and recycle scenarios while promoting very modern architecture.Sustainable design principles will govern the way the project thinking and final proposals evolve. You’ll study the history of art and architecture, visual and spatial design, materiality, construction, ethics, economics and digital communication. The complexity of projects will increase semester by semester, ranging from small and simple proposals to large and multifunctional considerations.