University of Greenwich
School of Architecture and Construction
Avery Hill Campus
Mansion Site
Bexley Road
Eltham
London
UK
SE9 2UG (click for map)
courseinfo@greenwich.ac.uk
www.gre.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 8331 9108
Professor Richard Hayward
About
The School aims, through strongly design-based programmes, to produce creative and competent architects who are also able to work effectively with and within related disciplines. Architecture is taught within a School that encompasses almost all the design, development, construction and construction management disciplines and many opportunities are offered for interdisciplinary learning.
The degrees provide a thorough academic grounding, enabling students to achieve awareness and critical understanding of the nature, purpose and cultural significance of architecture and its influence on the environment; to develop powers of reasoning and expression, imagination and creativity; to acquire communication skills; and to develop an ability to exercise judgement. The school operates a policy of small tutorial groups in the first year and a choice of Ateliers in second and third year. Degree students are given a thorough foundation in design and communication through traditional and digital visual studies courses (including life-drawing, photography, sculpture etc.)
The diplomas provide an opportunity to focus on a specialist field of study such as sustainability, urban design, computation and design, landscape architecture. Strong theoretical studies and a choice of Atelier underpin these specialist areas for the students.
The School uses a number of campuses, it is situated on a pleasant residential campus at Avery Hill, Eltham, within easy reach of the Greenwich Maritime Campus where it holds its end of year exhibition and other events and central London. It offers good studio, library and other facilities, including a comprehensive computer network (PC and Macintosh) comprising some 180 work stations, of which 50 are dedicated to the creative use of computers in architectural and landscape design. In addition, the School has a state of the art Electronic Design Studio where the relationships between digital creativity and architectural design are explored in project work.
TQA ratings: ‘Excellent’ for architecture in 1994 and 24/24 for landscape architecture in 1998. It received prescription from the ARB in 2005 for the next four years and undertook a highly successful RIBA visit in 2004.