Architecture Degrees Online

Students graduating from the course have been successful in obtaining employment in a wide range of design disciplines ranging from
architectural and interior design practice
brand development and;
multi-disciplinary design companies.

Our graduates can found working all over the world.

In addition, the course provides an excellent platform for graduates to reconnect with their subject or to further their teaching careers at an advanced level. It will also help to prepare you for progression to MPhil or PhD.

Architectural and Interior Design focuses on the creation and transformation of public and private spaces. Experimentation and speculation within the subject are a key element of the course. Students have the opportunity to work on concept generation for new or existing spaces and ideas for virtual environments.

Throughout the course you will be encouraged to develop a futures-orientated approach relating to ethical and environmental concerns based on sustainability.

Focusing on a consideration of the relationship between people, objects and spaces, you will develop an understanding of the design of environments within a wider theoretical and commercial context. You will be encouraged to develop your expertise in a range of media with access to Rochester’s extensive material and digital workshop facilities.

MA Architecture: Urban Design is taught through the School of Architecture at UCA Canterbury; a modern, progressive design environment established more than fifty years ago.

Rapid population growth, post-industrialisation, and environmental factors all pose significant challenges to urban design practices, demanding responses to complex design problems that are both nuanced and appropriate.

The course understands urban design to be a social, material and ecological discourse, modulated by diverse spatial, economic, political and temporal influences. During the first semester, students are introduced to a range of analytical tools including videographic, diagrammatic, digital and analogue modelling and mapping in the context of design exercises.

This MA course draws upon a range of disciplines, from landscape design and ecology to civil engineering and anthropology to facilitate students’ abilities to develop individual proposals and interests, which may extend to performative, experimental and interactive technologies.

Today architecture faces the challenge of dramatic ecological change. By examining relationships between environmental contexts and architecture, the needs of its inhabitants and the resources required to achieve it, this course enables students to develop methodologies, design tools and approaches that facilitate the identification, development and delivery of sustainable design solutions.

The MA Architecture: Sustainable Design understands buildings as living entities, where material cycles are defined and implemented to address reductions in both depletion rates of natural resources and waste production.

By focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing sustainable design as an integral part of the architectural profession, the course enables students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the discipline. Areas of study include the current national and global challenges reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, opportunities offered by novel uses of existing and emerging materials and construction forms.

The MA Architecture: Sustainable Design is taught through the School of Architecture at UCA Canterbury; a modern, progressive design environment established more than fifty years ago.

This course will equip those with a first degree in architecture or cognate disciplines with key contemporary skills, both in theories of design and in material production. Methodologies, theories and practices of design research are central to the Masters agenda. This MA course is project based, supplemented by workshops, lectures and independent study and is taught through the School of Architecture at UCA Canterbury; a modern, progressive design environment established more than fifty years ago.

New materials, techniques and construction methods are of increasing importance for architects and designers: during your course you will gain specialised knowledge of your chosen area of study: we support research in a wide range of areas including:
interdisciplinary perspectives on the built environment
digital fabrication technologies
architectural graphic design
physical computing
3D parametric modelling
design visualisation
high-end rendering
animation
texturing and lighting.

Methods of output and production include:
haptic techniques
laser cutting
3D printing
large format photo printing
web publishing
video and film.

*This course is subject to validation.

Our Graduate Diploma in Architecture carries full and unconditional prescription from the Architects Registration Board (ARB) as satisfying the Part 2 criteria. The course is also unconditionally validated by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Industry links
Local and international practitioners make frequent visits to the course, to lead specialist workshops and join design juries.

Recent guest lecturers
David Chipperfield Architects
Achim Wollscheid, Frankfurt
Graeme Williamson, Block Architecture.

This course will allow you to consolidate your architectural education and training to date. You build on existing skills whilst simultaneously questioning established preconceptions.

An integrated approach to teaching is at the centre of our ethos. Design propositions will be the main focus for your research and explorations into technology and theory will run parallel with your own design work. You will be expected to set your own agenda within the framework of the course and to constantly question yourself and other architectural practice.

Our studios are creative environments that support risk taking. Tutors are seen as implicated collaborators rather than teachers in possession of a set of truths. By the end of your time on the course, you are equipped to adopt critical positions within the profession and wider society, initiate and deliver projects grounded and delivered in design based research and continue a process of learning through experimentation and inquiry.

This ARB and RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) validated course is taught through the School of Architecture at UCA Canterbury; a modern, progressive design environment established more than fifty years ago.

GCE A level/AS level - 200 tariff points with 80 points from an arts related subject. A minimum of 160 points must come from 6 or 12 unit awards;
BTEC National Diploma - 18 units in a relevant subject;
BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art & Design;
Accredited Access Diploma - in appropriate subject, obtaining a PASS grade;
International Baccalaureate - minimum of 30 points preferred;
European Baccalaureate.

In addition to ONE of the above qualifications 4 GCSE passes at Grade C or above, including English or Key Skills Communication Level 2 or equivalent are required.

Other relevant and equivalent international qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.

IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL 550 (CBT 213) is the minimum level for students whose first language is not English.

Our graduates work in design or architectural consultancies in:
Retail
Leisure
Exhibition
Office
Hotel
Residential
Cruise ship design.

Some go on to postgraduate study in design management, sustainable design or film-set design.

Industry links
Companies that regularly employ our students work for clients that include:
Aston Martin
BBC
Couture (V&A)
UK Expo Japan
Imperial War Museum
Karen Millen
All Saints
HMV
Gap.

This course explores all aspects of the spaces in which people live, work and play. You are taken on an exploratory journey of the theory and techniques involved in designing interior space, especially in relation to the restructuring or remodelling of buildings.

You are provided with a sound understanding of the cultural context of architecture and design, a working knowledge of materials technology and the skills needed to create environments that are inventive and, at the same time, viable. Through 2D and 3D experimentation you focus on the use of form, scale, light and colour, combined with computer and building technology studies. Computer aided design software is provided for personal use throughout the course.

Design practice is included in each year and the course is strongly linked with industry, with work placements supported in the final year through course contacts. Issues in sustainability and ecological building design processes are explored in relation to design projects particularly in years 2 and 3.