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Coventry University

Bachelor Degree , Architecture

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Course Description

Architecture remains one of the most enjoyable and rewarding professions; in designing new spaces and buildings around our everyday lives and needs, you will be challenged intellectually, artistically and creatively. You can make a major positive contribution to society by shaping our environment and surroundings, leaving a lasting impact and legacy.

Professionally accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), this course adopts a hands-on approach to learning with a focus on imagination, communication and context. We run skills sessions to support drawing and model making as an integral part of studio work. You will also have access to excellent workshops in the Graham Sutherland Building, run by specialists in the areas of woodworking, clay modelling and digital craft processes.

Coventry is ranked as the 5th best university in the country for Architecture in the Guardian University Guide 2020, and our graduates are highly regarded in the profession. They can be found working in leading architectural practices, including Aedas RHWL, Faulkner Browns Architects, C.F. Møller Architects and Schmidt Hammer Lassen.

Course Content

  • Year one

Overview

The first year introduces you to the fundamentals of architecture including design, technology, communication and cultural context, with a look at the history and theory of architecture. We will teach you methods of hand drawing, sketching, model making and orthographic drawing as generators of creative exploration.

Through studio-based design projects, we aim to improve your understanding of the relationship of space, place, proportion and scale within the context of human needs and the physical site. You will also investigate architectural design further in relation to environmental design and human wellbeing aligned with materiality, construction and technology.

Modules

  • Design, Process, Communication

  • Comprehensive Design

  • Cultural Context

  • Construction and Environment

 

  • Year two

Overview

In the second year, you will consider the importance of the tectonics of architecture and explore the wider holistic contextual implications of emerging contemporary urban planning. You should start to make informed choices about materials, structure and environmental design, using 3D modelling and digital drawing software as a tool for architectural exploration.

Modules

  • Design, Process, Communication 2

  • Comprehensive Design 2

  • Construction, Technology and Environment

  • Cultural Context 2

 

  • Placement year

Overview

After your second year, you have an opportunity to take a sandwich year, studying abroad or on a professional placement.

Students have gained professional placements at practices in Latvia and Austria and studied in Milan, Valencia and Hildesheim.

 

  • Final year

Overview

The final year consolidates your earlier learning and provides an opportunity to undertake a comprehensive design project that incorporates the core subjects of design, technology and environment and reflects your own emerging design philosophy.

You will focus on the whole design process on a brief directly related to the city of Coventry and the urban fabric. For example, past students have worked on a Council House for the City and a Centre of Peace and Reconciliation.

You will have the opportunity to exhibit in our Degree Show and New Designers in London. Students also have opportunities to exhibit work in venues in the City of Coventry, building skills and confidence in presenting work to the public.

Modules

  • Exploratory Project

  • Comprehensive Design 3

  • Cultural Context 3

  • Construction, Technology and Environment 3

  • Integrated Collaborative Practice

Course Intakes

Location Start Date Fees Duration  

Classroom

Priory Street

Coventry CV1 5FB, United Kingdom

September, 2025

UK/EU:

£9250.00

3 years,

Full Time

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Entry Requirements

A Level :- AAB Excludes General Studies.

BTEC :- DDD

IB Diploma :- 34 points

GCSE requirement :- Minimum 5 GCSEs at A*-C including English, Art and Design and Maths.

A-Levels

A-Level applicants are required to have three? A2 Levels. Coventry University may include AS grades within an offer for certain courses, but we are not able to accept two AS Levels in place of one A2 Level. In some courses it may be necessary for entrants to have passed specific A2 Levels in nominated subjects. Please see the course pages for more information.

Access Diplomas

Coventry University welcomes applicants who have completed, or who are studying, the Access to HE Diploma developed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). Successful completion of the course will require you to gain 60 credits with at least 45 to be achieved at Level 3 (with the remainder at Level 2). In some cases we will require you to have gained Merit or Distinction grades in a number of units or in nominated subjects. For more information on the entry requirements for your chosen course please see the relevant course pages.

BTEC Level 3 Diploma

The University will accept the BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma for entry to most courses. In some cases we will require applicants to have studied either certain named modules or a specific named Diploma. The appropriate course page will have full information on the entry requirements.

The University also accepts the BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma and BTEC Level 3 Diploma for entry to degree programmes, provided that they are studied in combination with other qualifications that provide a total volume of study that is equivalent to three A2 Levels. For example, you could be studying a BTEC Level 3 Diploma plus an A2 Level, or a BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma plus two A2 Levels. Where a specific A2 or BTEC subject is required for entry then you must be offering this as part of your combination of qualifications.

Additional Information

Study options:

3 years full-time
4 years sandwich

Location:

Coventry University

Starting:

September 2020

Fees:

£9,250

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