STUDY

This module introduces fundamental principles and theories framing architecture, art, and design from a contextual perspective. It supports the Design Synthesis 1 module and covers key terms, historical periods, and contextual systems of thinking in art and design, providing a comprehensive understanding of our discipline's foundations.

This module introduces many aspects of the visual language of architectural design, both as creative art and technical application. It offers training on a range of media and methods via practical demonstration, experimentation, testing, and presentation. It allows for movement between 2D and 3D, analogue and digital, hand-made and fabricated, working with the strengths and affordances of each.

This module introduces you to basic principles of structures, materials, systems, construction, and environmental science. It focuses on the practical application of principles and conventions in building design, introducing you to regulatory frameworks governing the construction industry.

This is the core architectural design studio module. It focuses on the fundamental principles of architectural design creation, defined as operation, condition and merging. The module initiates knowledge and understanding of the key principles and terms of architectural design as formal and spatial articulation. It introduces user and site as context in the making of architecture and familiarise students with the key processes of projects by working against briefs, using precedents and core concepts.

This module serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it aims to foster a comprehensive critical dialogue surrounding diverse approaches, theories, and philosophies within architecture and its interconnected realms. Secondly, it directs students towards conducting deeper investigations into these facets by instilling a firm grasp of research principles, including the design of the research, preliminary literature review, research methods, and ethical approval.

This module introduces students to digital applications and software relevant to architectural practice, advancing the knowledge, skills and digital capability developed at level 4. It offers a platform to experiment and appraise a range of software, and thoughtfully combines these with training in Building Integration Modelling (BIM) principles and project management to assess the environmental impact of buildings and infrastructure and how it plays a critical role towards a more sustainable future of cities, communities, and the built environment.

This module explores what sustainability means at a global and local level, moving from the macro to the microclimate. It aims to develop your understanding of the influences on climate change and biodiversity loss, by conducting research into an assigned climatic zone within the Koppen Climate Classification system and become familiar the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

This module presents architecture as making insightful gestures that apply to buildings that manifest as usable objects, spaces, and environments of complex nature that may entail elements of agency, economics, ecology, politics, aesthetics, and ethics. It moreover addresses the role of the architect in a team, and their direct connection with the materiality, the process, and the completion of work as built product.

This module leads to the development of a research in an area that the student independently selects. The research process is guided closely by a academic supervisor and is enhanced by Architectural History and Theory lectures and scholarly discussions on specialised topics related to architecture, art, and design.

This module concentrates on the creation of the graduates’ professional profile and builds an awareness of professional frameworks related to practice. Students learn how to critically position themselves as upcoming architecture professionals and how to evaluate and reflect upon the ethos and social responsibility of the architect within a project and the society. This module also provides the necessary knowledge around the construction industry, the relevant processes, and regulations as well as the role of the architect in such.

This module celebrates the Suffolk Graduate profile as such and offers an integrative and diverse training in architectural design underpinned by broad philosophical, environmental, anthropological, and socioeconomic agendas and technological and ecological literacy. This module upon completion awards the BA (Hons) Architecture.

This module offers the opportunity to develop technical knowledge and skills gained throughout the course. It will help you to identify, investigate and diagnose defects, as well evaluate remedial action taken, to offering alternative recommendations and solutions. As developing professionals there is much to learn from the existing built environment, in how we value the heritage of buildings and the role they play in society, to better appreciate how they influence our view of architecture in the future.