London South Bank University, BA (Hons), Architecture

This creative course provides a design-focused education that emphasises considered design of our environment through engagement with contemporary material, social, and environmental issues.  We focus on developing individual design creativity and imagination through the use of live projects, field trips, site and building visits.

You will be required to participate regularly in crits, reviews, lectures, workshops, seminars, and 1:1 tutorials. Study trips abroad also enhance teaching and learning, although these are optional as some students may be unable to travel due to visa or cost restrictions.

You’ll be encouraged to engage in staff practice and research interests and work in teams that include practitioners, specialists, visiting architects, and critics from a range of related disciplines.

Studio teaching

We offer four vertical design studios addressing contemporary themes:

• Architecture and Inter/spatiality
• Experimental Architecture and Structures
• Architecture and Experience
• Architecture and Regeneration

Although you will be required to take responsibility for much of your own learning, you will receive considerable support and guidance from staff via course guides, module guides and week to week guidance and tutorial support from the academic staff.

Personal Tutoring

As a Built Environment and Architecture student, you will be allocated a named tutor during your first three weeks at LSBU.  The role of your tutor is to be your primary contact for academic and professional development support.

Your tutor will support you to get the most of your time at LSBU, providing advice and signposting to other sources of support in the University.

Your tutor should be the first person at the university that you speak to if you are having any difficulties that are affecting your work. These could be academic, financial, health-related or another type of problem.

You will have appointments with your personal tutor twice a semester for 30 minutes throughout your course.  You can contact your tutor for additional support by email or in person.

Placements

In your third year you’ll have the option to study abroad, taking advantage of our links with excellent European schools such as Delft Technical University in Holland, the University of Granada and ETH Zurich.

You’ll usually undertake a work placement after your third year. You arrange this yourself, but our staff are on hand to help.