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Foundation Programme

AA Foundation Award in Architecture
One year, full-time
1 Year

The Foundation Programme is a one-year full-time course that focuses on observation, conversation and the development of key skills. This course is aimed at students who are at the very start of their architectural studies, and facilitates individual and group project work. 

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Intermediate Programme

BA(Hons)
Three years, full-time (years one to three of the five-years course in architecture)
Intermediate
Diploma
Yr 1
2
3
4
5

The Intermediate Programme (BA(Hons)) is a three-year full-time programme. The First Year is characterised by its shared, open studio, where students work individually and together across a series of projects. Years two and three introduce students to the unit system, in which small design studios (12–14 students) operate a vertical structure of Second and Third Year students.

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Diploma Programme

Master of Architecture (MArch) and AA Diploma
Two years, full time (years four and five of the five-years course in architecture)
Diploma
Intermediate
1
2
3
Yr 4
5

The Diploma Programme (MArch) is a two-year full-time programme that accepts students who have completed the Intermediate Programme at the AA, as well as eligible new students who have studied elsewhere. The programme leads to the AA Final Examination (ARB/RIBA Part 2) and is structured around a unit system, in which small design studios (12–14 students) operate a vertical structure of Fourth and Fifth Year students. 

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Taught Postgraduate Programmes

MA/MSc, MArch, MFA and MPhil
Full-time and part-time depending on programme
1 Year
or
Yr 1
2

The AA offers ten Taught Postgraduate Programmes for students with prior academic and professional experience. Most of the programmes are full-time courses of advanced study, except for Conservation and Reuse, which provides a part-time study option. 

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Professional Practice Part 3

RIBA, ARB
2 weeks full-time or 10 weeks part-time
Wk 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
or
Wk 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Professional Practice is a RIBA Part 3 course and examination that allows successful candidates to register as architects with the Architects Registration Board (ARB). The course is open to AA RIBA Part 2 graduates and eligible non-graduates. 

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Visiting School

One – three weeks
Wk 1
2
3

The Visiting School encompasses diverse learning programmes, workshops and site-based agendas shaped by participants working intensively in small groups over varying periods of time from one to two weeks. Central to each programme is the idea that experimental, new and provocative forms of architecture are best learned by doing. 

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