Architecture, BSc (Hons)

Course summary

Take your first step towards becoming an architect with our BSc Architecture course. Both leading academics and innovative, practising architects will teach you.You will benefit from seven-day-a-week access to dedicated studio spaces in a newly refurbished building and the use of facilities equipped with digital technologies. The course comprises half design studios and design briefs and half lecture-based taught courses. Design projects aim to enable you to prepare a digital and physical portfolio. In contrast, lectures are designed to develop your understanding of core academic subjects and practical skills as part of your taught curriculum. Meanwhile, optional field trips to responsibly accessible cities such as London, Amsterdam, Venice or Paris will allow you to look at architecture in a new light. We have particular expertise in a range of subjects related to our research area of 'urban living', including urban regeneration, housing, mapping cities and places, and digital and analogue representation of buildings and cities.We are part of the renowned School of the Built Environment, which has strong research and industry links and is the joint fifth highest-ranking UK university for Architecture and Built Environment (QS World Rankings by Subject 2023) and sixth in the UK for research power in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning (Times Higher Education, Institutions Ranked by Subject, based on its analysis of the latest REF 2021). ScholarshipsAs part of the cohort joining the BSc Architecture course in 2025, you will have the opportunity to secure an annual £1,000 scholarship for each of the three years of the undergraduate degree (subject to conditions).Connect with industryThe University of Reading has well-established links with industry within the built environment sector. During the programme, there will be opportunities to work alongside businesses from across the sector, which will provide you with valuable experience that you can demonstrate to employers on graduation.For more information, please visit the programme page: https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study/study/subject-area/architecture-ug/bsc-architecture

Modules

The following modules have been approved in principle for delivery in 2025/26. Please note that as part of our current curriculum improvement process, all modules require final University approval and may be subject to change.Core modules:

• Visualisation and Communication in Architectural Design: An Introduction

• History and Theory of Architecture: An Introduction

• Design Studio One

• Construction Technology: An Introduction

• Design Studio Two

• Industry and Practice: The Realisation of Projects

• Construction Technology

• Design Studio Three

• History and Theory of Architecture: Buildings and Places

• Design Studio Four

• Dissertation

• Realisation 1

• Design Studio Five

• Realisation 2

• Design Studio Six

The University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. Further information about the content of final approved modules will be available between May and July 2023. We suggest that you regularly revisit this webpage during this time to ensure you have the most up-to-date information regarding the modules offered on this programme.

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The following modules have been approved in principle for delivery in 2025/26. Please note that as part of our current curriculum improvement process, all modules require final University approval and may be subject to change. Core modules:

• Visualisation and Communication in Architectural Design: An Introduction

• History and Theory of Architecture: An Introduction

• Design Studio One

• Construction Technology: An Introduction

• Design Studio Two

• Industry and Practice: The Realisation of Projects

• Construction Technology

• Design Studio Three

• History and Theory of Architecture: Buildings and Places

• Design Studio Four

• Dissertation

• Realisation 1

• Design Studio Five

• Realisation 2

• Design Studio Six

The University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. Further information about the content of final approved modules will be available between May and July 2023. We suggest that you regularly revisit this webpage during this time to ensure you have the most up-to-date information regarding the modules offered on this programme.