📃 On paper
Module breakdown
👐🏻 General approach
The School invites guest lecturers in, too – different architects, or maybe an artist or digital media company. It helps to see what the working world is like and what other people are doing.
you can travel as part of your course but you don’t have to do a sandwich year. In first year we did a project in Barcelona, designing an art gallery; this year I’m going to Italy.
💖 Student support
The peer mentor scheme is very helpful – my mentor now is in fifth year [on the MArch programme] and gives me all sorts of tips. Lecturers are really approachable. I wouldn’t hesitate to email them or ask if I could meet them.
I’m in the Christian Performing Arts Society and I do spoken-word poetry. We’ve done a poetry café and open-mic nights. I’ve always been a sporty person so I did football but it takes up a lot of time and I didn’t carry on with it after first year. I’m also a brand manager for Teach First and promote it around the campus and at careers fairs.
Kent School of Architecture and Planning has links to professional practices and this network is very useful to students when looking for work in an architectural practice. They have a careers and employability service
🛠️ Facilities
I love the studio and the fact that it’s open 24/7. I like working quite late so it suits me really well. You’ve got the computers and the drawing boards, there’s plenty of space to work and you can do your modelling. And because you’ve got all the year groups mixing together in the studio, you can hear other people’s opinions and see what they’re doing and how it relates to your own work. It’s a real community.
The studios are open plan.
Specialist facilities include:
- modern design workshops
- dedicated model workshops
- laser-cutting facilities
- computer studio and labs
- digital hub
- Digital Crit Space for presenting designs, including 75” Clevertouch screens
- An excellent library collection of books, journals and electronic resources.