University of Limerick

Course Description

• ​The objective of the UL’s School of Architecture is to educate architects with a strong set of integrated skills, balanced with a clear understanding of the environment - built, existing and imagined - and vital to professional practice
  
• The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has awarded full accreditation to the architecture program at UL. Studying architecture in an accredited program is the first step towards becoming a registered professional architect
• The program teaches an architecture curriculum that is integrated with Environmental and Structural engineering, as disciplines that set us free from the limitations of our own knowledge and help us to achieve a balance with the environment by focusing human abilities
• Training as an architect involves engaging in a process of ‘learning by doing’ with the course curriculum structured around the design studio. The design studio is a creative laboratory where learning is developed through experimentation and reflection
• Skills students will develop include hand drawing, sketching, model-making, photography, computer-aided drawing, audiovisual and verbal presentation, as well as core skills including conceptualising and designing, problem-solving and working with other people