This course is designed to make you more than just an architect. We need to design clever buildings that contribute to their context. The ability to understand the relationship between place, space and built form is essential to doing this well. Applying architectural design to city planning supports the creation of more joined up and humane sustainable environments. Understanding planning and architecture while responding to people, context and sustainability can lead to a new kind of designer. Highly creative architect planners are able to design from the scale of a city to a door-handle. This course teaches you how to do that. BA(Hons) Architecture and Planning provides broad-based knowledge and skills encompassing architecture and planning. With the Design Studio at the centre of learning, you will work on conceptual and practical projects across different themes. You will learn CAD, drawing, modelling and mapping to support this. In your degree course, you can choose to study in Europe for a year on our established Erasmus programme. During your final year, you will apply learning on a year-long project combining the master-planning of a complex urban area with rigorous brief development and research. You are also guided in how to present this work to employers as you take the next career step.

With accreditation from RIBA, you will be equipped on graduation for a career as an architect, architect-planner, urban designer, conservationist or town planner with a background in design. If you choose to become an architect, you will be able to draw upon your knowledge of the aims, techniques and culture of planning. This will give greater meaning, resonance and focus to your work.