Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: One year
The Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Practice prepares you for registration and chartership.
You will reflect on the evolution of the professional architect, relevant legislation and alternative approaches to practice and management. The course will develop your professional acumen in business organisation, management and commerce, advocacy, ethics and marketing, contracts and interpersonal skills.
The course offers a flexible learning programme comprising three study units, each lasting three days, typically running from November to November. Study units cover the following topics:
Marketing, Management and Practice, covering the skills and knowledge needed to understand the set-up, professional and economic management, and marketing of a professional architectural practice in various forms.
Building Contracts, covering the range of common building contracts, their application and the contractual relationships between contracted parties.
Architect and the Law, covering legislation affecting contract law, planning and development, and the wider regulations related to architecture and the building industry.
You must have ARB/RIBA Part 1 and 2 exemption.
You must also be in full-time work in a practice with an ARB registered architect.
You will automatically be enrolled on the PEDR course. You are required to have at least eight PEDR sheets completed by the time you take the professional interview in November, four of which must be post-part 2.
The qualification leads to access in the UK register with title and access to market. Please note that the qualification may have no bearing on registration in a legal jurisdiction other than the UK.
Don’t forget to include your personal statement, CV, a reference from your current employer / practice and your PEDR sheets as part of your application to DMU.
On successful completion of the Part 3 exam, you will normally qualify for registration as an architect through the ARB, and for chartered status with RIBA. You would then be able to use the title ‘Architect’ and have access to markets that ARB registration affords. Graduates have found careers in major practices such as Foster Associates, or as sole practitioners such as dm3 architecture.
Practice, Management and Law
Case Study
Evaluation of Practical Experience (& PEDR)
Practice Paper Exam and Professional Interview
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