Architecture - MArch

Kingston University

Kingston School of Art’s Architecture course is a four-year integrated undergraduate and postgraduate course. It offers both BA and MA degree levels. The course will give you the skills, knowledge and experience you need to start a highly influential, creative career as an architect.\**\Reasons to choose Kingston:*** This integrated MArch degree is seeking Architecture Registration Board (ARB) accreditation as a masters-level qualification (meeting all academic outcomes). It is also seeking Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Part 1 and Part 2 validation.* This course is taught by a team of talented practising architects whose work is widely recognised.* Kingston students often feature in prestigious national and international awards, such as the AJ Student Prize and the RIBA President’s Medals.* Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.**About this course**This course is designed to set you on a path for a successful career. You will learn from a diverse team of distinguished practitioners and academics. Design is taught through a unit system, with each unit led by prominent architects. While deeply grounded in architectural tradition, our units offer a variety of innovative and distinctive approaches.This course centres on the practice and theory, techniques and contexts of architectural design. It includes live making projects and engagement with practice and research. You will deepen and consolidate the knowledge, understanding and skills acquired during your first degree. Then a dissertation will give you the chance to investigate an area of interest in depth.As part of the Architecture MArch course, you’ll study themes such as anthropology, identity, memory and place. Other themes include care and repair, adaptive reuse, urban and ecological regeneration, and urgent societal concerns like housing provision and the exploration of new materials. This range of perspectives will help you to decide your chosen specialist area and pursue a career that matches your interests.**Future Skills**Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.**Career opportunities**\Many graduates work for leading architectural practices in the UK and overseas.

Department of Architecture and Landscape