Advanced Architectural Technology - MSci

Robert Gordon University

Our Advanced Architectural Technology top-up degree is open to applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds looking to become professionally chartered through CIAT or simply to equip you to play a lead role in the future design and construction of our buildings, cities and rural communities.

Our accredited MSci Advanced Architectural Technology degree is an Integrated Masters with accreditation from the professional body CIAT.

The discipline will provide you with the knowledge and skills to develop innovative yet contextually appropriate solutions to challenges of major consequence and complexity.

Projects are connected with industrial research and innovation the University is actively working on, meaning you will explore real-world problems in zero-carbon buildings, design for fabrication and assembly, digital and parametric design and future bound design agendas. This Masters entry level as a 12-month course which culminates in a Thesis.

Learning Methods

You will learn by a mixture of studio-based activity, tutorials, lectures and seminars. The studio space dedicated to the course provides you with an appropriately equipped place to undertake self-directed study and form your own architectonic positions.

You will study alongside our Architectural Technology students, and benefit academically and socially from being part of this wider community.

Whilst Term 1 introduces theoretical ideas, and in doing so ensures a common level of understanding across the cohort, Terms 2 and 3 are predominantly research-focused and are driven by independent learning.