
BA (Hons) Architecture
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Course overview
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Starts: Sep 2023
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Duration: 3 years
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Mode: Full time
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UCAS code: K100
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Fees: UK: £9,250 / INT: £16,500
Ideal for: aspiring architects and building conservationists inquisitive about how our spaces can both reflect and shape how we live
Shape society through your creative vision.
Through this architecture degree course, you will take inspiration from art, philosophy and technology to explore the spaces and places we inhabit. With access to gold-standard facilities and the highest-calibre teaching, you will develop your own creative vision by exploring the role architecture plays in shaping our society.
Student work
Why study this architecture degree?
- Develop your own creative vision and refine your design skills
- Outstanding teaching from senior industry experts
- Tap into direct contacts to the architecture industry
- Cutting-edge facilities in an award-winning building
- Build a sophisticated, industry-quality portfolio
- Unparalleled opportunities in a design specialist institution
- Excellent post-graduation employment rate
- Contemporary, challenging and future-facing creative projects
- Develop a broad understanding of practical and theoretical themes
Revolutionise the fabric of our society
From private buildings to public spaces, architecture plays a crucial role in the fabric of society, shaping our towns and cities and influencing how we live, work and play. It’s a field in which your create visions can make a huge impact on our everyday lives.
In graduating from this esteemed architecture course in London, you will possess multidisciplinary knowledge and vital transferable skills, which will prepare you for a career within the many threads of architecture. These include: urban design, housing and office design, planning, building conservation, architectural heritage and community development.
Whether you are an aspiring architect or building conservationist, this architecture degree will escalate your understanding of both the practical and theoretical aspects of architecture, its history and philosophy, as well as its role in contemporary culture, urbanism, construction, structural design and environmental design. You will study the design of buildings and the technical aspects of construction, as well as how architecture relates to all aspects of our lives.
During the three-year degree in architecture, you’ll learn through a mix of problem-based outcomes, design studio tutoring, workshops and traditional lectures. Ultimately, you will discover your architectural vision, refine your design skills and emerge with a sophisticated portfolio of work, so you can stand tall in the global architectural marketplace.
Accredited course
This course has been accredited by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) for the purpose of a Part 1 qualification.
In the media
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One of the main things that appealed to me about Ravensbourne was the collaboration and the opportunity to learn multiple disciplines whilst on the course. Ravensbourne was different as the architecture course gave us a vast range of topics to study under, from masterplanning, interior, product design and live projects”
Key study topics
- Experiment and explore architectural form-making
- Parametric and computer-generated design
- Techniques for designing structures and rapid prototyping
- Architectural history, theory and context
- Business enterprise for design and regulatory frameworks
- New developments in urban design
- New developments in architecture/design projects around the world
Architect's playground
Study architecture in London – in an award-winning building
Architect's playground

Swathed in a mosaic of 28,000 gleaming tiles, our building plays a standout role on the Greenwich Peninsula.

Explore all the sights of London, including the famous London Eye.

Take a tour around London and check out the incredible street art.

Explore all the sights London has to offer, including the famous Tower Bridge.

London's breathtaking skyline.

Explore all the sights London has to offer, including the famous Globe Theatre.

There is so much to explore just on our doorstep. Beautiful Greenwich Park is just a stones' throw away from our building.

Everywhere you look, London is full to the brim with creative inspiration.

Explore all the sights that London has to offer, including the famous Tate Modern art gallery.