Push the boundaries of how we think about people, culture and the environment to create innovative and responsible design.
3 or 4 year options
104-120 UCAS Tariff Points
September 2025
BA (Hons) Architecture is your first step towards a successful career as a registered architect or in a related profession. The programme is organised in four streams: design studio, technology and environment, cultural context and professional studies, to equip you with the real-world skills and critical understanding to develop new forms of architectural practice.
The Architects’ Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, accountable to government. It ensures only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practice as architects.
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) will discontinue the prescription of all Part 1 qualifications (including all UK undergraduate Architecture degrees) from 31 December 2027. This is a nationwide change affecting all university Architecture qualifications in the UK and is not specific to Norwich. If you are due to complete your course in June 2028 or later, you will still graduate with a BA (Hons) Architecture degree; however, the ‘Part 1’ exemption will no longer exist or be required to advance in your architectural career. Instead, ARB recognition will be awarded upon completion of a later Master’s qualification, ensuring a more streamlined and modernised pathway into the profession.
Our Integrated Foundation Year is designed to equip students with the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence to thrive in their chosen degree subject. The course provides a comprehensive introduction to various disciplines, blending critical thinking and creative problem-solving with practical hands-on experience. This year serves as a bridge to undergraduate studies, allowing students to explore their interests within a supportive and inspiring environment, while familiarising themselves with the campus, workshops, and tutors.
This unit forms part of a shared first-year curriculum for Architecture and Interior Design students, establishing a broad and integrated foundation in spatial and design thinking. It aims to introduce you to the fundamentals of architectural and spatial practice as you begin your studies, supporting the development of core skills and ways of thinking common to both disciplines. Through a series of carefully structured projects and exercises, you will explore key concepts such as scale, material, site, and context, and how these influence and inform the design of the built environment.
You will learn to observe, understand, and make architecture using a variety of media—including drawing, writing, and model-making—while engaging with cultural, sustainable, and ethical ideas that shape contemporary design. This process will help you to develop a critical and creative approach to spatial design, as well as confidence in your ability to represent and communicate ideas effectively.
40 credits
This unit continues your exploration of creative spatial design, emphasising the interrelationship between body, surface, and space. Through a series of carefully structured design projects, you will engage in spatial experimentation using both drawing and making as investigative tools. You will examine how space and place are formed and experienced, supported by the integration of technical and environmental design strategies. Emphasis will be placed on sustainable and responsible approaches to making—considering climate, comfort, light, material use, and carbon impact.
The unit also supports the development of key professional competencies, including planning and organisation, visual, written, and spoken communication, and effective teamwork. These skills will be developed within the shared context of Architecture and Interior Design, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and a broader understanding of spatial practice.
80 credits
The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.
An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.
Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.
In this unit, you will explore architectural design at the scale of society, investigating how built environments mediate between individuals and communities in contemporary urban life. You will consider spaces shaped by politics, culture, identity, economy, and climate, and test design strategies that address rural and urban contrasts, sustainability, and social engagement. Through design briefs you will refine architectural propositions that integrate technical concerns such as climatic resilience and material performance, while experimenting with drawing, modelling, and digital media to represent and communicate ideas. The overall aim of the unit is to research, reveal and represent the societal meeting points and gateways where identities, ideologies, networks, and spatial practices meet, collide, and negotiate.
This unit encourages you to situate your work within wider debates about architecture’s role in shaping collective life. You will be supported to link conceptual thinking with practical experimentation, strengthening your ability to test ideas critically and communicate them clearly to different audiences.
40 credits
In this unit, you will expand your exploration of societal space by developing larger architectural propositions that focus on collective inhabitation and the relationships between people, places, climates, and histories. Working across multiple scales, you will research and test ideas that address rural and urban conditions, cultural and political contexts, and global and inclusive approaches to design. Through drawing, modelling, digital media, and collaborative research, you will investigate how architecture can generate responsive and resilient aggregates that support communities and creative collectives. These projects will be grounded in real-world contexts, supporting a mode of practice that embraces exchange and advocates for architecture that is restorative, socially and climatically responsive, and resilient rather than prescriptive.
You will be challenged to consider how different systems of regulation, culture, and identity shape spatial outcomes, and to reflect on the ethical implications of your design choices. Collaboration and co-research will form a vital part of your process, strengthening skills in teamwork and negotiation.
80 credits
The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.
An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.
Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.
In this unit, you will shift focus from social space to socio-ecological systems, exploring how architecture engages with climates, species, materials, energies, and habitats across scales from the microscopic to the planetary. You will investigate contexts of environmental strain and climate vulnerability, considering architecture’s role in ecological justice, care, repair, and resistance. Through site investigations, theoretical readings, and iterative design work, you will test non-anthropocentric frameworks that examine co-existences between humans, animals, and nonhuman agents. Your research will integrate tectonic systems, material reuse, and environmental analysis alongside narrative development and structural detailing, encouraging sustainable and resilient approaches to design.
The unit supports you in forming a clear research agenda that connects critical theory with experimental practice. You will develop the ability to position your work in relation to ecological debates, preparing you for the integrated design project in Architectural Ecologies II.
40 credits
In this unit, you will build on the research and critical positioning developed in Architectural Ecologies I to translate socio-ecological investigations into an integrated architectural project. You will develop narrative, environmental and technological integration, theoretical study, and professional ethics to develop a design proposition that addresses social and environmental challenges. Working iteratively, you will refine proposals through tectonic articulation, structural integration, and environmental sensitivity, developing spatial programmes that respond to site conditions and wider global networks. Professional Studies is embedded throughout, focusing on ethics, compliance, and employability, supporting reflection on the responsibilities of architects working in a time of systemic inequality and climate vulnerability. The aim of this unit is for you to frame your integrated design project where architecture is understood as a mediator of ecological relations — bridging material and social scales across time and space.
This unit represents the culmination of your undergraduate study, requiring you to demonstrate independence, technical competence, and critical insight. It is an opportunity to define your architectural voice and present a project that articulates your position within contemporary debates about society, ecology, and professional practice.
80 credits
The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.
An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.
Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.
Congratulations to Joshua Rogers and Jacob Cherry who have been selected for the AJ Student Prize by the Department of Architecture and Interior Design. The AJ Student Prize celebrates the work of undergraduate and postgraduate architecture students in the UK.
This course is taught through a mixture of learning and teaching methods including:
Assessment for this course is entirely coursework-based, meaning there are no exams. Your progress will be evaluated through the projects and assignments you complete for each unit. Throughout the year, you’ll receive ongoing feedback to help you refine your work and develop your skills. To support your learning and ensure you achieve the course outcomes, we use a variety of assessment methods, including:
Professor of Architecture and Director of Architecture and Interior Design
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Look around our city-centre campus, and you will find studios, media labs, and creative spaces in 13 buildings that sit among the cafés, bars, independent galleries and shops of Norwich’s cultural quarter.
The workshop is equipped with equipment and tools that enable students to experiment, make and create using a large range of traditional and digital processes including 3D print, CNC routing, welding, and casting.
The UK’s creative sector is thriving, contributing £111.7 billion annually to the economy and offering over 2 million jobs.
Employability and career development are integral to every unit of our courses, ensuring students are well-prepared for the industry. Our students go on to secure exciting roles, launch successful businesses, and make a lasting impact in many sectors worldwide.
From day one, you’ll also get specialist career advice from our Business and Employability Team to help support you as you plan your career.
By the end of your degree, you’ll have gained a set of transposable skills to meet or exceed the assessed benchmark requirements for ARB Part 2 qualification (Masters).
Our close links to the profession will give you the chance to meet and learn from our regional partners, including Feilden+Mawson, Purcell, LSI Architects, Hamson Barron Smith and Hudson Architects. Architecture graduates have been selected for RIBA East Awards, the TRADA University Challenge and the Design and Craftsmanship Awards.
Under the Architects Act 1997, only those on the Architects Register are permitted to use the title of ‘Architect’ in business or practice in the UK. The current route to registration involves completion of three accredited qualifications – Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 – and a minimum of 24 months professional experience. After completion of these components, you can register as an Architect with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and join the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) as a Chartered Architect.
In 2023, the ARB published and consulted on proposals for a new framework for the initial education and training of Architects, under the title Tomorrow’s Architects. Under the new framework, you will need to hold an ARB-accredited master’s-level qualification and an accredited practice qualification (or an accredited combined qualification) that show you have met the necessary Competency Outcomes (the threshold competencies that all architects on the Register are expected to have) and have the practice experience required to join the Register of Architects and become an Architect.
92% of our graduates are in employment or further education within six months of graduating”
If the qualification that you are studying is not shown, do not worry as we are able to accept other pre-entry qualifications as well as combinations of different qualifications.
Please do contact our Student Recruitment Team if you have any queries.
GCE A/AS Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BBC (112 UCAS Tariff points) or above. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, Norwich University of the Arts will consider combinations of A-level/AS-level and other Level 3 qualifications.
Distinction, Merit, Merit in an art, design or media related subject
Distinction*, Distinction* in an art, design or media related subject
A T Level in any subject with overall grade A* to C (Pass)
Merit
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A minimum of 26 points
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Please do contact our Student Recruitment Team if you have any queries.
GCE A/AS Levels 2 A-level qualifications at grades CC (64 UCAS Tariff points) or above.
Merit, Merit, Pass in an art, design or media related subject
Distinction*, Merit in an art, design or media related subject
Pass (D or E on the core)
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A minimum of 26 points
GCSE passes at Grade 4 or above in English, Maths, and a Science subject.
Your application will be primarily assessed through your portfolio (if required), responses to questions asked and personal statement, so even if you have no formal qualifications or do not meet our typical offers it can still be worth applying.
If you are studying at the time of your application and your application is successful it is likely that you will receive a conditional offer.
If the qualification that you are studying is not shown, do not worry as we are able to accept other pre-entry qualifications as well as combinations of different qualifications. Please do contact our Student Recruitment Team if you have any queries.
Portfolios should show examples of your work — both finished and work in progress — that demonstrate your interests and skills. Your portfolio should be made up of work that reflects your creativity, personal interests and influences, as well as demonstrating your technical skills and ability. It doesn’t have to be perfect as we can assess your potential from your work in progress.
Your portfolio should be relevant to this course, but you can include a wide range of work that shows your creativity, technical competence and understanding of storytelling.
Get more advice on presentation formats, layouts and when to submit your portfolio in the application process.
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norwichuni_architecture Congratulations class of 2025 BA Hons Architecture and MArch which graduated today! 🎉 🎉 🎉
norwichuni_architecture Featured Project: The Obstreperous System by Sophia Henley @sophiaahenley (BA Architecture Year 3) This project interrogates domesticity, repression, and gendered authority through a spatial and material intervention at the ruins of Greyfriars Monastery in Dunwich – once a site of institutional and social control. Grounded in feminist spatial theory and inspired by the writings of the Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, the work reverses and reclaims the historical labours of women – such as limewashing and textile-making – by re-scripting them into acts of power, exposure, and unravelling. The design weaves soft, textile-based structures through the crumbling ruins, creating a performative architecture that entraps, directs, and reveals. New formations of domestic labour are rescripted in a new kind of domestic intuition proposed here. It suggestsa reimagined domestic institution where traditional roles are subverted: spaces of labour – material folding, scrubbing, and tending – are exaggerated and reassigned, inviting male participants into routines historically associated with women, while others, traditionally associated with domestic responsibility, gain access to secluded areas that symbolise authority, though fractured and impermanent. The structure is intentionally fragile, built to degrade and adapt with the landscape, mirroring the instability of power and the coast. By flipping gendered norms – placing men in visible labour and women in spaces of observation and retreat – the intervention challenges entrenched ideas of control and privacy. It encourages reflection on institutionalised domestic roles, spatial segregation, and the slow, material undoing of patriarchal authority. Tutors: Dr George Themistokleous, Sarah de Villiers (Design Studio), Romanos Tsomos, William Burgess, Dr George Themistokleous, William Hailiang Chen (Technology and Environment), February Philips, Tony Cleford (Professional Studies). Course Convenor: Claudia Morgado Programme Director: Prof Teresa Stoppani @norwichuni_architecture #norwichuniversityofthearts #wearenorwich #dunwich
norwichuni_architecture Featured Project: Rhizomatic Decontamination by Jacob Spinks @jspinks13 (BA Architecture Year 3) Recipient of RIBA Bronze Medal nomination from Norwich University of the Arts (joint award) Rhizomatic Decontamination is a long-term remediation scheme located on the contaminated shingle spit of Orfordness, Suffolk. As an ex-military testing ground, the coastal landscape has suffered extensive displacement and contamination, layering over years of explosive ordinance testing, bombing runs and longshore erosion. Decades later, as remnants of humanity’s bid for efficient control, an abundance of impact craters scar the land. Drawing from theoretical frameworks outlined by Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble, the project embraces complexity, contamination and abnormality through a lens which allows and encourages adaptive reuse. Laboratory One, located on the border of public access, is retained and adapted as a threshold between accessible and contaminated land, operating as a research and development hub for phytoremediation. From here, a new axis is drawn along the historical Land Bombing Line (55° North) as a path of repair. By layering over a derelict vibration test facility, the proposal redefines inaccessible land as sites for potential post-human inhabitancy. Embracing the cthuluscene—where humans and non-human actors collaborate and entangle—a rhizomatic network of hyperaccumulator trees and architectural pods is planted into craters. Each pod responds to both natural and controlled growth, using a modular grid to support trees as cybernetic phytomining machines. This establishes a long-term choreography of healing, shifting perceptions toward responsibility, cohabitation and speculative repair. Tutors: Dr George Themistokleous, Sarah de Villiers (Design Studio), Romanos Tsomos, William Burgess, Dr George Themistokleous, William Hailiang Chen (Technology and Environment), February Philips, Tony Cleford (Professional Studies). Course Convenor: Claudia Morgado Programme Director: Prof Teresa Stoppani @norwichuni_architecture #norwichuniversityofthearts #architecture #orfordness
norwichuni_architecture On June 19th, we and our award sponsors recognised outstanding projects in spatial design, highlighting achievements in areas such as environmental considerations, technological innovation, sustainability, social justice, critical practice, inclusive design, community focus, and global challenges. The celebration highlighted cross-disciplinary approaches and investigative practice. Congratulations to our award winners: - Sam Joy (MArch) @samjoyarch Taiwan Architecture Fellowship 2025 - Hekla Aradóttir (BA Hons Arch) @heklaara Architecture and Interior Design Writing Prize - Asya Milenko (BA Hons Arch Y2) @svit.lovyv RIBA Norfolk Design Achievement Award - Martine Qvernstrøm (BA Hons Arch Y2) @martineqve RIBA Norfolk Studentship Award - Joe Slack (BA Hons Arch) @joe._slack RIBA East Student Award 2025 Purcell Research Report Award - William Roderick (BA Hons Arch) Purcell Research Report Award - Isabella Dawson (BA Hons Arch) @izzy.dwson Hudson Award for Sustainable Design - Marcelo Moerdyk (BA Hons Arch) LSI Architects Drawing Prize - Leo Coles (BA Hons Arch) @leosalter_ Commendation for Design Achievement - Maram Al-Rikabi (BA Hons Arch) @rikabiix Commendation for Studentship - Jacob Spinks (BA Hons Arch) @jspinks13 RIBA President’s Bronze Medal Nomination - Jordan Jewell (BA Hons Arch) @lurchlurks AJ Student 2025 Nomination, RIBA President’s Bronze Medal Nomination - Theo Galvin (MArch) @uncultivated.architecture Design Achievement Award RIBA President’s Silver Medal Nomination The Grad Fest exhibition of work by graduating students is open until Thursday, June 26. All are welcome! Thank you to our award sponsors: RIBA East @ribaeast RIBA Norfolk Hudson Architects @hudsonarchitects LSI Architects @lsiarchitects PURCELL @purcell.architecture @norwichuniarts #norwichuniversityofthearts #wearenorwich #architecture #awards
norwichuni_architecture Featured Project: Ephemeral Resonance: The Dunwich Coast as Living Instrument by Isaac Zipfel (BA Architecture Year 3) Sound on 🔊 On show at Boardman House, Norwich as part of @norwichuniarts Grad Fest Exhibition 2025 13-26 June 25 See the link in our bio for opening times Ephemeral Resonance proposes an acoustic architecture sited on the eroding cliffs of Dunwich, where the ground itself becomes a living instrument. This project listens to the landscape—its shifting geologies, disappearing edges, and atmospheric rhythms—and translates these distant, slow erosive processes into embodied sound. Inspired by W.G. Sebald’s evocation of a silenced landscape, the work responds to loss not through visual monument, but through auditory presence. Drawing on acousmatic theory and posthuman ideas of listening, the intervention uses site-sourced materials and embedded technologies to generate a journey of sonic encounters. It encourages both solitary and collective acts of listening, destabilising vision as the dominant mode of perception. Through installations that resonate with wind, rain, and tide, the architecture allows the terrain to sound—offering a space where erosion becomes audible, intimacy is forged between body and site, and the ephemeral is made momentarily perceptible through sound Tutors: Dr George Themistokleous, Sarah de Villiers (Design Studio), Romanos Tsomos, William Burgess, Dr George Themistokleous, William Hailiang Chen (Technology and Environment), February Philips, Tony Cleford (Professional Studies). Course Convenor: Claudia Morgado Programme Director: Prof Teresa Stoppani @norwichuni_architecture #norwichuniversityofthearts #architecture #dunwich
norwichuni_architecture Featured Project: Threads of Labour by Isabella Dawson @izzy.dwson (BA Architecture Year 3) Recipient of Hudson Architects Student Award for Sustainability 2025 On show at Boardman House, Norwich as part of @norwichuniarts Grad Fest Exhibition 2025 13-26 June 25 See the link in our bio for opening times The unseen labour is woven into the history of Dunwich, where erosion over time has left just traces of the collective labour that once built the town. In The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald exposes the state of the lives of silk weavers, whose labour was tied to looms more “reminiscent of instruments of torture” than tools, revealing the stigma attached to the craft. The endangered status of silk weaving and hemp rope making in Suffolk reflects not only the marginalisation of physically demanding manual labour but also the impact of automation. The project proposes a space dedicated to silk weaving, where craftsmen can both practice their craft and teach others. This enables the space to be constructed using historically local materials, such as hemp fabric and silk, which can be woven on looms as visual expressions of the craft traditionally practiced within. The ability of the structure to be assembled and disassembled in response to erosion deterritorialises tradition, preserving the woven language and autonomy of Dunwich craft for the future. Tutors: Dr George Themistokleous, Sarah de Villiers (Design Studio), Romanos Tsomos, William Burgess, Dr George Themistokleous, William Hailiang Chen (Technology and Environment), February Philips, Tony Cleford (Professional Studies). Course Convenor: Claudia Morgado Programme Director: Prof Teresa Stoppani @norwichuni_architecture #norwichuniversityofthearts #architecture #dunwich
norwichuni_architecture Featured Project: Negentropic Fire: Rituals of Memory and Renewal by Joe Slack @joe._slack (BA Architecture Year 3) Recipient of RIBA East Student Award 2025 for Norwich University of the Arts; Purcell Research Report Award This project explores fire as both a destructive and regenerative force, drawing from W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and the idea that “combustion is the hidden principle behind every artefact we create.” Set in Dunwich, Suffolk – a coastline shaped by erosion, deforestation, and human intervention, it investigates fire’s evolving role in landscape transformation. Beginning with Dunwich’s environmental history, the project develops through film, material studies, and speculative design, revealing cycles of memory, loss, and renewal. At its heart is a proposed intervention rooted in the Anglo-Saxon ‘need-fire’ ritual: a communal fire marking the end of a seasonal timber harvest. Through pyrolysis, it produces charcoal and biochar, resources that feed back into the land and local making practices, reframing fire as a stabilising, negentropic agent. The architecture comprises a series of fire-formed spaces that embody material change. Users encounter the physical and symbolic presence of combustion – scorched surfaces, transformed matter, seasonal rituals, grounding human activity in ecological processes. Informed by Galiano’s Fire and Memory, the project challenges dominant associations of fire with entropy, proposing it instead as a cyclical, purposeful tool for ecological and cultural renewal. Here, burning becomes ceremony; waste becomes matter for growth. The land is not consumed but composed anew, through rituals of memory, heat, and renewal. Tutors: Dr George Themistokleous, Sarah de Villiers (Design Studio), Romanos Tsomos, William Burgess, Dr George Themistokleous, William Hailiang Chen (Technology and Environment), February Philips, Tony Cleford (Professional Studies). Course Convenor: Claudia Morgado Programme Director: Prof Teresa Stoppani @norwichuni_architecture #norwichuniversityofthearts #wearenorwich #dunwich
norwichuni_architecture GRAD FEST 25 is now open! Come and visit some work of BA Architecture and M.Arch at Boardman House. Our work studies posthuman and ecological landscapes spanning coastal and watery conditions in Orford Ness, Southwold, Dunwich in our undergraduate course; and research connected to the watery planetarities in Accra, Lincoln, Varanasi, and Horsey in our postgraduate work. The exhibition runs from 13 to 26 June, and extends to many of our fellow programme sites across Norwich University of the Arts. See link in bio for more information and opening times. Featured work in these images: 1 — Hekla Aradóttir @heklaara 2 — Isabella Dawson @izzy.dwson 3 — Jacob Spinks @jspinks13 4 — Jordan Jewell @lurchlurks 5 — Leo Coles @leosalter_ 6 — Felix Ford @felix___ford 7 — Ryan Bonner @r_b0nner 8 — Marcelo Moerdyk 9 — Tracey Lin @_tracey1_ 10 — Adam Krupa @krupa9751 11 — Theo Galvin @uncultivated.architecture and Rohan Ganesh @rohanganesh Stay tuned as we feature some more work from the two courses over the exhibition. @norwichuni_architecture @norwichuniarts #norwichuniversityofthearts
