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Study Details: MA 1 year full-time (September start), 17 months full-time (January start), 2 years part-time (September start)
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.
Qualifications or experience
A good honours degree in a relevant subject, such as
English language requirements
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If you meet our criteria, you could get a £3000 tuition fees discount – visit website for details
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:
There are both core and optional modules in the full-time version of this pathway.
You can choose any optional module to build your specialisation, but you’ll need to complete the ones in bold to graduate with the Building and Heritage Conservation exit award and receive IHBC accreditation.
Core modules
Optional modules
All optional modules are 30 credits each.
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