BA (Hons) Architecture
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Course overview
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Starts: Sep 2025
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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* (2024 entry) / INT: £17,000* (2024 entry)
*Fees subject to change for 2025/26 entry.
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.
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Ideal for...
aspiring architects inquisitive about how spaces can reflect and shape how we live. If you are an imaginative individual hoping to explore different creative and technical industries, and aiming to make an impact in the world around you, then this course could be for you.
Why study Architecture at Ravensbourne University London?
- ARB Part 1 prescribed, allowing you to pursue the journey to becoming a fully qualified architect
- Develop your own creative vision and refine your design skills
- Build a sophisticated, industry-quality portfolio
- Contemporary, challenging and future-facing 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.
Professional accreditation: ARB / RIBA
This course is prescribed by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and validated by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), providing exemption for RIBA Part 1 examination. The ARB have announced that they will no longer be prescribing undergraduate architecture qualifications from 31 December 2027. Find out more about these changes on our professional body information page.
Key study topics
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Architectural form-making
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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
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”
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