Learn through making on this RIBA and ARB Part 1 accredited course. Strike out on your career path to become an architect with this RIBA and ARB Part 1 accredited degree course, which focuses on the interplay between thinking and making to prepare you for professional practice. With access to a dedicated studio environment and well-equipped workshops, you’ll work on live briefs and gain hands-on experience while developing a sustainable, socially engaged approach. You’ll master techniques for understanding places, acquire powerful communication skills and discover how to design for communities and clients in response to environmental issues. You will: Explore sustainable solutions through radical design challenges and proposals, working without concrete or petrochemical-derived insulation materials and focusing on renewable energy sources Learn in a collaborative, studio-based environment that simulates real-life workspaces Have the opportunity to gain valuable experience through a professional placement Work on socially engaged live-build projects for clients such as the Eden Project and the National Trust Attend guest lectures by industry experts and have the opportunity to secure your own professional placement Access excellent technical facilities, including a range of analogue and digital fabrication processes The course is RIBA part 1 validated. The course is ARB Part 1 prescribed until 31 December 2027, when the ARB will cease its prescription of all Part 1 qualifications.