Canterbury School of Architecture, located in Kent was established in the late 1940s, occupies a special place in the world of architecture and interiors because of its location within a specialist art and design institution.

This distinctive environment encourages investigations in creating and transforming complex spaces by sustaining a fundamental characteristic of spatial design: transdisciplinary practice.

Our Architecture courses have full unconditional validation from the RIBA and the ARB, the professional validation bodies. The School is unconditionally authorised to award exemption for Parts 1 and 2 of the professional examinations of the Royal Institute of British Architects. View RIBA report

We have relationships with many disciplines across the University, although we collaborate closely with the Fine Art, with whom we share a campus as well as various lectures, projects, study trips, and exhibitions. Our courses, offer you the opportunity to explore the design of space though experimentation with various media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, video and electronic media. Using 'non-conventional' methods of making and representation in your work as creative spatial designers, you will produce projects that are challenging and which reflect individual theoretical positions.

The courses we offer nurture critical thinking, generating the ability to not only react to design opportunities but to become part of an environment responsible for creating them.

Within a vibrant community, our students are supported by committed, experienced, and energetic staff. At Canterbury, the relationship between teaching/learning and academic/practice-based research is symbiotic: staff investigations feed into design studios and coursework, students' explorations and discoveries question and shift research directions. A network of practising architects, interior designers and interior architects lend their support and expertise to the courses and a series of guest lectures runs each year for all students.

Our extensive network of contacts abroad, in nearby mainland Europe and further a field, provides you with the opportunity to undertake an international study placement of up to a full academic year of your BA course.

Creative collaborations with cultural institutions and businesses in the region involve links with the Kent Architecture Centre, Kent Count Council and the South East Development Agency (SEEDA), as well as local clients. Such collaborations give you the opportunity to work on contemporary issues in 'live' projects, which provide valuable professional-based experience during your course.

Our Courses

BA Hons Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 1

BA Hons Interior Architecture & Design, 3 & 4 yrs

Graduate Diploma in Architecture - ARB/RIBA Part 2

MA Spatial Practices

MA Digital Ekistics

The University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone & Rochester provides inspiring courses in art, design, architecture, media and communication. Formed through the union of The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University and the Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD), we have an outstanding heritage spanning almost 150 years.