Architecture MArch
Coventry, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to apply your creativity in architectural design and positively impact people and the planet.
Course overview
This course is designed to celebrate the distinct nature of architecture as a discipline spanning the sciences and the arts.
This course aims to help you:
- develop creative and imaginative architectural projects of diverse scale, complexity and type
- advance your career towards becoming a professional architect
- explore the interrelationship between buildings, the built environment and the principles of sustainable design
- use the principles and theories of urban design for the planning of successful communities.
Why you should study this course
This course is for you if you want to:
- learn on a course that is informed by an advisory panel of practising architects, including lecturers with industry experience and guest lecturers, ensuring a strong and collaborative bond between your practice and our staff (staff and guest speakers are subject to change)
- study in a holistic, integrated teaching and learning environment. Industry-standard facilities allow you to explore, create, collaborate and develop employer-valued skills
- develop human values such as social interaction, wellbeing and accessibility, helping and supporting you to find a role for architecture in contemporary society
- work on individual projects, and collaborative projects with other arts and engineering students on master’s courses within Coventry University.
Year One
Architecture MArch at Coventry University is taught as a liberal discipline that is technically, professionally, socially and environmentally sustainable. We place an emphasis on architecture as a social practice and a technical process which deliberately spans both science and the arts. We strive to provide an architectural education that is as complex as the field of architecture itself but taught in a way that challenges you to achieve your maximum potential.
Modules
- Design, Process and Communication
- Comprehensive Design
- Construction Technology and Environmental Design
- Cultural Context
- Integrated Project
Year Two
In your second year, you will explore the complexities of architecture itself. Our teaching reflects the nature of contemporary architecture as an international field of creative inquiry and the course incorporates exploration, collaboration and the critical analysis of inputs from differing sources.
Modules
- Research for Design
- Design Thesis
- Professional Practice and Management
- Critical Investigations
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Careers could include working as:
- architect
- urban designer
- architectural technologist
- interior and spatial designer
- building surveyor
- town planner
- commercial, residential or planning surveyor
- buildings inspector
- conservation officer
- landscape architect.
Where our graduates work
Successful graduates of this course have gone on to work in multiple architecture practices, in the UK and worldwide.