Architecture with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

**Accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Architects Registration Board (ARB), this is your first step to a broad range of degree subjects, including a career in architecture.**<br/><br/>Architecture with Foundation Year equips students with ways of seeing, developing methods of critical thought, designing projects and creative technical skills to support progression on to the more in-depth study of architecture required over the subsequent three years of the degree. Alongside architecture-specific learning you will gain a broad range of more general university skills, to set students up for success at undergraduate level study across a broad spectrum of subjects. Following on from Foundation Year students will be able to either join the standard three-year architecture degree graduating with the same award or change subject to persue an alternative career and degree pathway.<br/><br/>**What you should know about this course**<br/>- With Foundation Year is the first step towards a professional career in architecture or landscape architecture, with an option to change to an alternative 3-year degree subject<br/><br/><br/>- Explore new technologies, emerging social, environmental conditions; contemporary cultural, theoretical and aesthetic practices for careers in abroad range of creative industries<br/><br/><br/>- Explore and engage with our visual and tactile world learning a range of visual communication and drawing and making skills, including the latest computer software and techniques<br/><br/><br/>- Visits to art galleries, museums, architecture offices, artist studios, important buildings and landscapes. We also host lectures, international conferences with eminent speakers<br/><br/><br/>- Our students have been recognised by prestigious national awards, such as the AJ Student Prize, RIBA student awards and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects awards.<br/>