Architecture (Hons)

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, 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.

Careers and opportunities

Many graduates on BA Architecture (Hons) degree at University of Portsmouth continue their architect training with paid, mentored professional experience in a practice, before studying at postgraduate level for a Master of Architecture degree. 

You can use your skills in areas such as design practice, planning and historic building conservation. 

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