The aim of the course is to extend key areas of professional knowledge relating to the law, management roles and activities involved in architectural practice.

The aim of the course is to extend architectural research skills, and provide the opportunity to explore a self-defined subject of study related to architecture.

The aim of the course is to extend design skills within a creative studio environment. It provides students with an opportunity to develop a coherent and rigorous approach to the technical design of their architectural projects. It requires students to develop and integrate detailed strategies for construction, structural design, fire safety, environmental design, energy and resource management in relation to their studio projects, and consider the architectural and ethical implications of their technological choices as a means of developing and expanding a critical architectural practice.

The aim of the course is to extend design skills within a rigorous creative studio environment and provide the opportunity to explore architecture as a response to the contemporary city.

During this course, you will develop an understanding of the role of social science based theory, knowledge and approaches within awareness of social science research methods and their utilisation within specific projects involving multiple participants and involving a variety of methods and tools. You will also develop an awareness of multi-factor analysis of the research data arising from such research methods and its role within the design process.

This course aims to demonstrate ownership and autonomy through self-directed exploration and individual creative expression within an environment of professional and peer-critique; to understand and deploy the design process as the synthesis of research, analysis, development and critique within the context of contemporary design practice; to evidence the value of design in response to a given opportunity, problem or context; and to produce both tangible design outcomes and communication to a professional level where their value to business, society and industry is explicit.

The aims of Architectural Technology 3 are to achieve; the ability to evaluate and comment on buildings and their performance in relation to arrange of social, economic and physical criteria, as well as identifying and explaining their architectural significance; a researched understanding of sustainability in order to take a position as a designer reflected in the ability to devise and implement strategies for sitting; energy use; choice of construction, materials and processes; and for the quality of the internal environment and micro-climate; knowledge of building construction, structure, environmental and service integration for more complex and multi-storey buildings and the ability to integrate these with architectural intentions; an understanding of and methods of structural design with emphasis on the development of structural systems in conjunction with architectural design development.

The aims of Studio Practices 2 are to: develop students’ understanding of a wide range of creative disciplines and associated studio practices; develop students’ ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, employing collective methods of research to develop and substantiate creative proposals, and to enable the student to collaborate effectively with partners out with their discipline; develop students’ ability to utilise online digital communication for the dissemination of research and the sharing of ideas, and to enable the student to further develop their ICT skills to support their studio practices.

The aim of the course is to familiarise students with architecture in the urban context in the 19th and early 20th centuries. After completion of the course students will be able to reproduce the most important theories and ideas that underlie Western architecture and urban development in the 19th and early 20th centuries as well as display in-depth knowledge on select topics from this period.