Architecture (Hons) University of Portsmouth

Overview

You’ll join a distinctive learning environment, with access to cutting-edge facilities, working on stimulating and client-driven design projects. You’ll master key design skills, from the scale of the body's interactions with materials and constructions, to the domains of cities and landscapes, engaging in social, cultural, political, aesthetic and environmental challenges of the world we're part of.

You'll focus, with our passionate and supportive community of professional architects, on the themes, values and methods relevant to architectural education and the profession to ensure your practice is future-proof and industry-standard.

After graduation of the Architecture (Hons) degree course from University of Portsmouth , you'll have the theoretical and practical foundations to pursue Master’s study and advance in your registration. You can also begin a career in the architecture, sustainability and construction industries, such as architectural design, urban design, and landscape architecture.

Course highlights

• Fast-track your architect registration by completing this degree and getting Part 1 qualification – an ARB and RIBA requirement
• Broaden your professional experience by working with actual clients in our in-house Architecture Project Office
• Experience a professional design studio by working in our dedicated studio spaces, developing your individual and collaboration skills
• Get a taste of working in the architecture industry by taking an optional one-year placement 
• Impress future employers by showcasing your work at our annual Graduate Show
• Enrich your experience and knowledge of architecture by going on site visits to major international cities – past trips include Rome, Venice, Barcelona, New York and Berlin

• Master your communication skills, from hand drawings and models to using professional industry software – including Building Information Modelling (BIM), advanced parametric modelling, and 3D scanning and printing

You'll develop as a multi-skilled practitioner, able to work in diverse sectors, including construction, engineering, public, creative, and property development.

Many graduates on this course continue their architect training with paid, mentored professional experience in a practice, before studying at postgraduate level for a Master of Architecture degree. 

Graduate jobs

Jobs our graduates have taken on include:

• Architectural designer
• Interior designer
• Landscape architect
• Urban designer
• Planner
• Architectural technologist
• Product designer
• Graphic designer
• Lighting designer
• Set designer

Graduate destinations

Companies graduates have worked for include:

• Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt
• Make
• Re-Format
• Grimshaw
• PAD Studio
• Hawkins Brown
• Design Engine
• Architecture plb
• Hampshire County Architects
• Squire & Partners
• Allies & Morrison
• Penoyre & Prasad

Past students, having completed their registration, have gone on to run their own practices. For example, Simon Astridge Architecture Workshop, DMWA and PCA.