Architecture (Honours) Newcastle University

Overview

This Architecture (Honours) programme from Newcastle University is your first step towards qualification as a professional architect, and you'll leave with your own design style and distinctive way of working.

You'll study topics that explore the cultural, historical and technological context of architectural design, and help you understand the implications of your design decisions. This city will provide the ultimate case study for you, with an architectural legacy that few UK cities can rival.

Career opportunities:

Architectural education at Newcastle places a strong emphasis on developing your ability to visualise concepts and to translate your ideas in different forms, alongside a range of transferable skills. These skills have proven very attractive to employers in the creative industries.

They see these skills as an integral part of the architectural education they offer, placing graduates of both degrees in a strong position to obtain employment in numerous fields such as:

• architectural history

• architectural writing (e.g., fiction, criticism, journalism)

• property development

• construction management

• building physics (representation, simulation, calculation)

• planning

• urban design

• landscape architecture

• set design (e.g., film and theatre)

• media

• other design-related disciplines