BArch (Hons) Architecture Bachelor's degree at the University of Nottingham

This studio-based module introduces you to basic design, drafting, model making and drawing skills. There are two dedicated days of studio tutorials per week. The semester finishes with the design of a small building that will test your understanding and application of the knowledge gained on this module.

The overall aim of this module is to give you an understanding of the impact that the built environment has on those who inhabit its space. Through a two-hour lecture each week you'll broaden your awareness of built environment design issues, illustrate how design decisions impact more broadly on environmental, economic, social and experiential issues and study behavioural psychology and its influence on built environment design.

This module introduces you to the principle of a holistic and integrated approach to building design. Firstly, you'll learn about the notion of thinking architecture, the fundamental principles of design and drawing skills and typologies as key areas of study. Then you'll focus on methodology and approaches relevant to the studio comprehensive design project with a more intensified examination of topics such as light, narrative and sustainability. For this module you'll have one, one-hour lectur

This module introduces you to the technology, materials and techniques used in constructing buildings. It aims to help you understand how these elements form an integral part of the design process. Through two-hour weekly lectures you'll conduct practical structural modelling exercises. This will help you develop a basic understanding of the qualitative behaviour of structures and the interaction between structural form and the loads that they are required to support.

This studio-based module develops your basic design, drafting, model making and drawing skills. Through the two dedicated days of studio tutorials per week, you will be introduced to historical precedents and computer-aided drawing programmes. These exercises will feed into a small comprehensive design project of a public building.

This module offers you an introduction to the history of architecture from ancient times to the present day. A two-hour weekly lecture aims to familiarise you with major architectural typologies and the social and technological changes that brought them into being.

Introducing you to the environmental agenda as it applies to the architectural profession, you'll explore the key bioclimatic strategies used to maintain appropriate conditions for the occupants of buildings, thus tying together occupant comfort, building schedule and climate. You'll have a two-hour lecture per week using both physical modelling and computer simulation techniques to gain a better understanding of the strategies involved and their relationship with building design.

This studio-based module aims to develop your basic skills and approaches to architectural design through a series of design projects. You'll spend two dedicated days in the studio per week with emphasis on the 'craftmanship of architecture', improving the spatial, aesthetic, sensual as well as practical, structural and dimensional qualities of your design.

Dealing with small to medium-scale buildings, you'll build on knowledge acquired in Tectonics 1, focusing on structural systems, building elements, material, components, connections, construction methods and detailing. During a two-hour lecture each week, you'll learn how constituent parts come together to construct building entities through investigation and analysis of structural principles, detail, material composition and performance of primary building elements.

Following on from the key principles introduced in the year one module, Integrated Design in Architecture, you'll further develop your communication and research skills which will underpin your work in both the theorisation and practise of architecture. Through one-hour weekly lectures you'll explore the research methodologies and skills needed to identify and synthesise relevant and accurate information as well visual communication skills focusing on geometrical modelling programs, where skills

Building upon the themes covered in the year one module Environmental Science for Architects 1, this module looks more specifically at the flows of energy that occur with and within buildings and how these relate to and integrate with some of the numerous systems employed that may help with their control. You'll spend four hours per week in lectures studying for this module.

Following on from the previous module, Architectural Design Studio 2A, you'll continue to spend two dedicated days in the studio per week aiming to develop a more comprehensive understanding of architectural design.

This module introduces construction methodologies related to medium- and large- scale buildings and outlines the first principles of modern methods of construction, including systems and components, prefabrication, and performance envelopes.

This course provides a historical, cultural and philosophical context to the major contemporary debates in architecture today. You'll gain understanding of architecture's potential as a practically useful and culturally meaningful activity. Key issues from the history of philosophy will be examined alongside a range of building case-studies. This will enable you to develop a series of alternative interpretive frameworks through which buildings may be analysed, criticised, debated and understood.

This course explores contemporary architecture in relation to major social, economic, political, ecological, and technological transformations after the Second World War. A wide range of topics including consumerism, globalization, mass media, cultural identities and changing economic structures are discussed in terms of their role in shaping architectural theory, practice, and built environment. Two hours of lectures each week employ building case studies, film excerpts, and assigned readings t

Introducing you to the context of professional practice, this module prepares you for your year in placement by discussing the year out, how to go about getting the right job and the skills involved in achieving this. Through two hours of lectures each week you'll look at the important regulatory requirements and processes and the principles and priorities of running a traditional contract on site together with standard documents used in this process.