Cardiff University
Welsh School of Architecture
Bute Building
King Edward Vii Avenue
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3NB (click for map)
lewisk2@cardiff.ac.uk
www.cf.ac.uk/archi
+44 (0)29 2087 4430
Professor Phillip Jones
About
The Welsh School of Architecture is in the Bute Building of Cardiff University, which is located in a fine campus setting in Cardiff’s Civic Centre.
The School is characterised through research-based teaching, effectively translated into studio projects. This tradition of creative pragmatism is under-pinned by a culture of making from city to building through to components and materials. The School’s strengths in aspects of place-making, sustainable design region and tectonic studies are all particular distinctive themes throughout the under-graduate programme.
The degree courses combine to provide a two-tier scheme of study. The first degree (BSc) involves three years of full-time study, which is followed by the professionally orientated second-degree (MArch) course. The BSc course aims to develop students’ creative design abilities by means of studio-based design projects integrated with courses in building technology, architecture history, landscape and urbanism, and other relevant subjects. The second degree (MArch) involves a further two years’ work. The first year is a period of supervised education in practice in an approved organisation. In the final year, students develop their individual design interest through a range of design studies for complex buildings.
Research fields, including architectural science, architectural history and theory and architectural practice, enrich the teaching at undergraduate level. A Design Research Unit has also been established to implement architectural, urban design and landscape projects from the position of research.
Entrance requirements may be obtained from the Admissions Secretary at the School. Candidates for the BSc course must have obtained passes in English and Mathematics in the GCSE.
Interviews are no longer held for the majority of applicants to the BSc course. Applications are invited from candidates who wish to enter directly to the MArch course; such candidates must have obtained a good honours degree in Architecture at another school.