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Architecture: Building and Heritage Conservation MA

University of Portsmouth

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    University of Portsmouth

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    JAN

  • Duration

    1 year

Course summary

Overview

Explore your passion for the heritage of historic buildings and sites and uncover the stories behind their structures with our MA Architecture: Building and Heritage Conservation Master's.

Accredited by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), this course encourages you to engage creatively, theoretically, and research-wise with historic buildings and sites and explore conservation design on a conceptual and practical level. These methods will help deepen your understanding of the heritage and conservation process, especially the tangible and intangible factors that encompass our historic, contemporary, cultural, and social values. Our team of heritage and conservation experts will support you in sharpening your skills and bolstering your professional practice.

Through your explorations, you'll investigate the importance of retaining our heritage buildings and sites, the financial constraints and consequences of doing so, and the most effective management and restoration methods. Work with the interior, architecture, and urban scales and their interconnections, examine different historic and contemporary heritage buildings and sites to relate conservation thinking with various real-life challenges, and test out new technologies. You can also gain professional, legal, management, and administrative expertise.

When you complete our MA Architecture: Historic Building and Conservation Master's course, you'll have all the tools you need to pursue a career in the conservation of historic buildings and sites.

Careers this MA Architecture: Building and Heritage Conservation Master’s prepares you for

Upon completion, you'll have the specialist skills to pursue a career within the conservation, architectural and planning professions. You’ll also develop historical and technical knowledge, and understand research methodologies applicable to conservation.

The creative conservation design skills, professional competencies, and expansive learning environment on this course can lead you to work in:


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  • architecture, interior or conservation practices

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  • consultancy

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  • regeneration projects

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  • heritage management bodies—such as National Trust and Historic England
  • conservation training centres

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
(International fees)

£ 17,200per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth

  • University League Table

    49th

  • Campus address

    University of Portsmouth, University House, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2UP, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Architecture

    28th out of 55 5

    18th out of 36 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 208
    136 65%

    26th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    82.0 82%

    27th

    23

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.10 77%

    27th

    17

  • Entry standards

    / Max 158
    123 78%

    13th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    96.0 96%

    1st

    1

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.97 74%

    25th

    5

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