BSc (Hons) Architecture (International)
COURSE SUMMARY
Our Architecture course is designed to provide you with the tools to become a leader of the future. Architects are highly valued professionals, working with governments, engineers, construction partners and design practices worldwide to shape our cities and the built environment. Your work will inspire others as you design new buildings and public spaces and reinvent, restore, and conserve existing ones. Our course is designed to nurture your development and prepare you for practice.
IS ARCHITECTURE RIGHT FOR YOU?
Our Architecture Course is suitable for you if:
1. You’re fascinated by cities and urban life and want to help develop and shape our future built environment.
2. You’re a design-focused solution-seeker looking to combine highly imaginative creativity with theoretical and technical knowledge.
3. You have ambitions to be an architect and want to start your journey towards professional status.
YOU WILL:
1. Develop leadership and management skills, gaining the confidence to contribute your opinions and express your creative ideas.
2. Explore spatiality and the relationship between form, space, material, and tectonics while assessing a building’s performance and learning to meet key criteria in your design work and conceptual frameworks.
3. Study urban scale, history, and theory, regularly visiting sites and developments.
Year 1 - Foundation Year
LEVEL 3
Modules include:
1. Critical and Reflective Thinking
2. Human Rights
3. Arabic for Business (Arabic Speakers) / Arabic for Non-Arabic Speakers)
4. Multidisciplinary Project
5. Built Environment and Professional Practice
6. Applied Mathematics
7. History of Bahrain
Year 2
LEVEL 4
Modules include:
1. Design Studio 1A
2. Design Studio 1B
3. History and Theory of Architecture 1
4. Design Technology 1
5. Practice 1
Year 3
LEVEL 5
Modules include:
1. Design Studio 2A
2. Design Studio 2B: Performance Modelling and Integrated Design
3. History and Theory of Architecture 2
4. Practice 2: Multidisciplinary Project
5. Design Technology 2
Year 4
LEVEL 6
Modules include:
1. Design Technology 3
2. History and Theory of Architecture 3
3. Inteqrated Design Studio
4. Practice 3
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
- IELTS 4.5 with no less 4.0 in any component
- High School Diploma with an overall average of 75% over the last three years of high school (years 10, 11 and 12)
- Maths will be required in your diploma profile
FOR DIRECT ENTRY
- GCSE English Language & Maths at level 4 / Grade C or above
- A-Level: (128 Points)
- BTEC National Diploma: DDM in a Related Discipline.
- International Baccalaureate: 32 Points.
During your studies, you will be based in our purpose-built design studios, on a dedicated and newly refitted floor at BUB.
The latest state-of-the-art equipment is being installed and this is where you will develop your skills and architecture knowledge using a blend of theoretical, collaborative and practical methods.
Our BSc (Hons) Architecture UK Degree course is for you if:
• You are fascinated by cities and urban life and to want to help develop and shape our future built environment.
• You are a design-focused solution-seeker, looking to combine highly imaginative creativity with theoretical and technical knowledge.
• You have ambitions to be an architect and want to start your journey towards achieving professional status.
Please Note – All candidates must submit a portfolio.
Letters of verification confirming that the portfolio is your own work must accompany the portfolio. For example, the letter can use school/college headed paper and be signed by your tutor. For mature students, the letter should be written and signed by someone with an industry connection.
