Course General Description

The Diploma in Architecture programme at the Mackintosh School of Architecture is designed to provide the necessary educational framework for students who intend to enter the architectural profession, and confers exemption from Part II of the Examination in Architecture ARB/RIBA. The programme offers an intensive training in the forces acting on buildings, and the specific skills required of the architect. Project-based, it centres on contemporary issues of urban building, the work ranging from live projects and sponsored research to competitions and theoretical studies.

School General Description

The GSA is internationally recognised as one of Europe's leading university-level institutions for the visual creative disciplines. The university's studio-based approach to research and teaching, brings disciplines together to explore problems in new ways to find new innovative solutions. The studio creates the environment for inter-disciplinarity, peer learning, critical enquiry, experimentation and prototyping, helping to address many of the grand challenges confronting society and contemporary business.