REASONS TO STUDY THIS COURSE
- You enjoy exploring how architecture works and would like to learn how to develop ideas and designs for a range of projects.
- You aspire to work as an architect, interior architect, urban planner or landscape architect.
- You want to progress to university to study a range of courses in art and design, with a specific bias to an architecture-related course.
WHAT YOU WILL STUDY
You will learn a wide range of 2D and 3D techniques and digital processes to enable you to create a coherent project that leads from your inspiration to a resolved model. You will develop research skills, studying contemporary and historical architecture and designs, as well as developing your drawing and problem-solving skills. You will enhance your creative skills, as well as computer-based design, as you initiate, develop and realise your ideas through a personal, practical art and design process.
HOW YOU WILL BE ASSESSED
Year 1 (AS) – coursework
Year 2 (A-Level) – coursework and an exam assignment
Submission of sketchbooks, samples and final outcomes.
PROGRESSION
Students can progress directly onto a broad range of architecture-related degree courses. Another recommended option is to progress onto the Art Foundation course at Priestley College.