Course General Description

From drawing and modelling to full-size project making and creating exhibitions in public spaces, the BA (Hons) Architecture course at UCA Canterbury is a lively, progressive and creative experience. Ranked 11th out of all 52 architecture courses in The Guardian Good University Guide 2019, you’ll learn from a group of highly successful and dedicated architects, designers and engineers, and experiment with all elements of architecture. Studying in large, light and airy dedicated architecture studios, you’ll have the freedom to embrace and debate the future and develop new ways of thinking, and through using high-calibre technology and software, you’ll gain advanced digital skills with tools such as our Tracklab – a dedicated virtual reality studio with spatial tracking. You’ll also have a thorough introduction to architectural management, practice and law.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.