BA (Hons) Architecture

• Architectural form-making
• Sustainability principles in the built environment
• Parametric and computer-generated design
• Techniques for designing structures
• Rapid prototyping
• Architectural history
• Theory and context
• Business enterprise for design
• Regulatory frameworks
• New developments in urban design
• New developments in global architecture

If you choose to add an Integrated Foundation Year on this course, you will be first introduced to the fundamental principles of architecture and built environments. Your foundation year gives you the time, space and support to explore your strengths, build confidence and prepare for the demands of project-based, industry-focused learning.

The first year of the course, introduces the student to the different aspects of built environment study, the design process and the underpinning skills and theory.

Modules include:

• Specialist Study 1: Structure
• Specialist Study 1: Introduction to Construction
• Specialist Study 3: Introduction to Environment and Services
• Architectural Theory and History
• Introduction to Professional and Business Practice

In the second year of this degree in architecture, you will gain a greater understanding of urban design, branded environments, rehabilitation projects and the history of the city. This will allow you to enhance your practice and develop your approach to design work.

We set briefs that will encourage you to collaborate with other students and create work as part of a design team.

Modules include:

• Urban Intervention
• Urbanism: History and Theory of the City
• Branded Environments: the new commercial paradigm
• Sustainable Design: Refurbishment & Re-use

You will bring your learning together in a final negotiated major project, where you will investigate and make architectural design decisions. You will also carry out a negotiated project which takes the form of a live brief.

Furthermore, we ask students to show their contextual studies research and thinking in a long-form dissertation. You will leave with a portfolio that showcases your enhanced skillset in the various strands of entry-level architecture.

Modules include:

• Negotiated Brief
• Major Project
• Preparing for Professional Practice
• Dissertation

At Ravensbourne we accept a wide range of qualifications for entry onto our courses, whilst also considering the context in which they were achieved. For this course, we would usually require a GCSE Grade 4 or above in English in addition to any of the below;

• Three A Levels at grade BBC or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade DMM
• UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma
• T Level (pass or above)
• Access to Higher Education Diploma
• International Baccalaureate at grade 24 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 112 UCAS Tariff points 

At Ravensbourne we take a flexible approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. We still think exams are important and look forward to hearing about your successes, but we place just as much importance on the work you will share with us as part of our portfolio process.

Interview and portfolio requirements

We are looking for creative candidates, interested and wishing to pursue a career in architecture, urban landscape, interior architecture and different interactions around space and the built form. Our set of courses work together and will allow you to discover what pathway suits you best.

This is the beginning of your journey. Our priority is understanding if these are the right courses for you to develop your own professional voice. Show us why you want to join our creative and exciting community.

The portfolio should provide evidence of your creative interests, whether it be in the form of drawings, sketches, graphic design, photography, video, film, animation, fashion, products, paintings, sculpture, models or assemblage, which shows your creative impulses and responses. It is a demonstration of the diversity of the applicant's creative interests.

This page offers great tips for completing your portfolio/showreel. It also details our specific requirements.

Please note: direct entry into year three is not available for this course.

At Ravensbourne we accept a wide range of qualifications for entry onto our courses, whilst also considering the context in which they were achieved. For this course, we would usually require a GCSE Grade 4 or above in English in addition to any of the below;

• Two A Levels at grade CC or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade MPP
• UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma
• T Level (pass or above)
• Access to Higher Education Diploma
• International Baccalaureate at grade 24 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 64 UCAS Tariff points

At Ravensbourne we take a flexible approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. 

Interview and portfolio requirements

There are no interview or portfolio requirements for this course.