MArch Architecture

Why choose this course?

The aim of this course is to continue to challenge you to explore further your creative design capabilities whilst exploiting traditional and modern technologies and materials for the development of the current and future Built Environment. Throughout your study, you will explore how Architecture can shape national and international communities and culture, including developing a deep understanding of the responsibility to create sustainable solutions.

The MArch will strengthen the design side which is currently running only at the undergraduate level. This course builds on existing undergraduate provision will give exemption (subject to external validation) to parts 2 RIBA qualification procedure and in the future, to Part 3.

What happens on the course?

This course (as does the degree) builds on the rich heritage of Wolverhampton and its unique geographic position within the Black Country region of the UK, seen by many as the birthplace of the industrial revolution.

The course provides you with a fully engaging design-based education and will allow you to expand your architectural design abilities through studio-based learning and personal research. In addition to developing your creative capabilities, this course will draw on our rich technological history to allow you to integrate design with the latest emerging technology for the development of buildings that excite the user and shape the local, national and international urban environment.

Sustainability features heavily in all aspects of the course and this underlying ethos will feature throughout your studies, ensuring that you design for a built environment that leaves a positive legacy.