Working alongside architects and other constructionprofessionals, architectural technologists are innovatorsin a rapidly changing world of building design; usingcutting edge materials and techniques, they may bedesigning the buildings of the future, or conserving thoseof the past. They must facilitate projects and pushboundaries from within the perimeters of theirresponsibilities, which include meeting ever morestringent environmental standards.

Most architectural technologists work in private practice,but there are opportunities to work in other organisationsthat have their own design teams, such as buildingcontractors or large corporate companies. Graduates canalso pursue careers in related areas such as projectmanagement or architectural conservation.

The Architectural Design and Technology programme atCSAD is accredited by the Chartered Institute ofArchitectural Technologists. After a period of relevantexperience, our graduates will be eligible to apply for fullmembership of the Institute and become CharteredArchitectural Technologists. The programme is taught bya dedicated team of both academics and professionalsfrom within the spheres of architectural design andtechnology, as well as art and design.

Your studies will begin with an introduction to the coresubjects of building technology, materials andarchitectural science, at the same time developing skillsin CAD visualization and modelling, hand drawing andpresentation. In the second year, you will cover furthersubjects such as contract law and economics, and add toyour studio skills with Building Information Modelling andenvironmental modelling software. Your design briefs willbe underpinned by a greater emphasis on your ability to

relate theory to practice, and to integrate your acquiredknowledge, with a major project brief allowing you todevelop a design from a client’s brief through topresentation and detailing.

Ours is an exciting vocational course which, in your finalyear, will give you the opportunity to be involved inrestoration and conversion works to an historic building –this being one of two major design-based briefs to tacklealongside a dissertation and an additional project, whichshall further prepare you for working in a professionaldesign practice.

In 2012, Cadw (the historic environment service of theWelsh Government) purchased a traditional valley’sterraced house in Cwmdare – “almost completelyunaltered inside and out since it was built in 1854” – andhave since enlisted the CSAD Architectural Studies staff indeveloping and delivering the programme over the nexttwo years. From 2014-15, this project will be publicized asan exemplar of best practice.

With a focus on your professional future after CSAD, ourrole is to foster your ideas and skills in the broadercontext of Architectural Technology today. You may startthe course with a simple desire to design buildings – butwe trust you will leave with the knowledge, skills andpassion to begin to change our world for the better.

CSAD offers both an HND and a BSc (hons) in ArchitecturalDesign and Technology. Many of our HND studentsprogress to BSc, at the end of their second year.

Further information: Admissions Tutor: Nick Evansnievans@cardiffmet.ac.uk

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Entry requirements:Minimum Tariff: 260 points from at least two A levels or equivalent, or 220 points for HND.

YOUR PLACE AT CSAD

Meeting applicants is important to us.

We like to show you around, answer your questions andtalk to you about your work and aspirations.

No doubt you would like to look at our facilities and theLlandaff campus and find out more aboutaccommodation, transport in the city and finances.

This year we will be holding seven ‘Big Interview Events’in our new building. The aims are to welcome candidatesapplying for places, give you the information you need,and conduct interviews. We will have a lot to show youand will be able to answer all your questions aboutstudying with us and living in Cardiff. The dates of our

‘Big Interview Events’ are as follows, but we will beconducting interviews throughout the year for peoplewho miss these or who are unable to attend on thesedates.

The Interview Days for 2015 entry are:

10 DECEMBER 201428 & 30 JANUARY 20154 & 6 FEBRUARY 201511 & 13 FEBRUARY 2015

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY BSc (HONS) /HNDUCAS Code: W290 (BSc) /12KW (HND)

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

WHY CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN?

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE• Master of Fine Art (MFA)• Master of Design (MDes)• Master of Design (MDes) SADI

• MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Specialist Pathways only• Art & Science• Philosophy• Ecologies• Death and Visual Culture

• Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills:Art & Design

• MA Ceramics• MSc Advanced Product Design

UNDERGRADUATE• HNC Building Technology and

Management (Ystrad Mynach)

• HND Architectural Design & Technology

• BSc (Hons) Architectural Design &Technology

• BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker• BA (Hons) Fine Art• BA (Hons) Ceramics• BA (Hons) Textiles• BA (Hons) Graphic Communication• BA (Hons) Illustration• BA (Hons) Product Design• BSc (Hons) Product Design• BA (Hons) Photographic Practice

(Bridgend)

RESEARCH DEGREES• MPhil• PhD• Professional Doctorate in Art• Professional Doctorate in Design

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CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, LLANDAFF CAMPUS, WESTERN AVENUE, CARDIFF, CF5 2YB44 (0)29 2041 6070

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FOUNDATION• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies

(Art & Design) (Bridgend) - allied programme only

• Foundation Degree in Applied Art & Design(Bridgend)

• Foundation Degree in Ceramics (Cardiff and The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in ContemporaryTextiles Practice (Cardiff and The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in GraphicCommunication (Cardiff and The Vale College)

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BUILD A LONG AND REWARDING ART AND DESIGN CAREER

You will study three modules each year and, at the end ofeach year, you’ll have just one single formal assessment.You will be developing your work and improving itthroughout the year, following the example ofprofessional artists and designers; this is how they work,so it’s how we work too. You learn by thinking, enquiringand practice.

We work closely with design companies, arts and makerorganizations, as well as the professional art and designcommunity. There are tangible opportunities for you togain work experience, bring your skills to a communityproject, and make professional contacts of the sort thathave proven invaluable to countless graduates beforeyou.

In your final year, you can elect to produce a detailedbusiness plan instead of a research dissertation. Indeedyou can navigate your three years with either a businessor an academic focus. It’s up to you. We even have anincubation facility to support our best graduates in theestablishment of their companies.

All of our Undergraduate programmes can be extendedto study up to Masters level as an MDes or MFA(Professional Masters), MA (Academic and CreativeMasters) or MPhil (Research Masters). All studentsachieving a 2:1 or above are guaranteed a place on one ofour Masters programmes.

BECAUSE CARDIFF IS AMAZING

Cardiff has such great provision for the arts,entertainment and sport. The mountains and sea arewithin such easy reach. What’s not to like?

commitment, you will be encouraged throughout toestablish a greater sense of what makes your creativeidentity both valuable and unique.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

You need to be among people who will share in yourpassion and help you reach your potential. Our entranceexpectations (300 UCAS points) and rigorous, but friendly,interview process create an expert community ofstudents who are serious about their studies in art anddesign.

You will be joining other imaginative, curious and astutestudents artists, makers and designers in our studios.

People who are at the top of their game will teach you.CSAD staff, academic and technical, as well as some ofour administrative staff, are practitioners in their own right.Our academic staff are engaged in front-line research andin business projects which ensure that we teach from areal position.

BECAUSE YOU WANT EXCELLENT ART AND DESIGN STUDIOSAND TECHNOLOGIES

Professional artists and designers need excellent studiosand workshops – and that’s what we provide. Our newfacility on the Llandaff Campus is an ideas and creativefactory, with extensive workshops and resources. Almosteverything and anything we have available is for ourstudents to use, from digital stitch and plaster mouldingto our metal foundry and our rapid prototypingworkshops.

We are also home to the only MIT accredited FabLab in aUK university.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PASSION FOR ART & DESIGN

Your studies are built around three fundamental aspectsof what it is to be an artist, maker, or designer: uniqueskills; creative ideas; and an ability to contextualise thesein a professional situation.

These essential qualities – which are dependent uponone another – will form the basis for each of your briefsand assignments, throughout your three years at CSAD.They will be the markers of your progress towards being awell-rounded graduate; an individual who possess notonly the talent, but also the confidence, experience, andinsight, to thrive as a creative professional in today’sworld. Your core skills will be a consistent focus, as youexplore both new and established mediums and identifythose practices that you’d like to pursue further.

In terms of your ideas, your tutors will be encouragingyou to constantly reflect, question, and asses; to explorehow and why the world came to be as it is and how itmight be re-thought or re-imagined.

Contextualizing your skills and ideas is about gainingpractical and professional experience. You will have achoice of projects to undertake, where you willcollaborate with students from across the school’s otherdisciplines.

You will also have the chance to take up placements withan employer or voluntary organization. You may elect tojoin a research group or exhibit your work. You also havethe chance to travel and study in Europe, India, Korea,Australia, Morocco or America. You can even begin tobuild your own business or creative professional practice.

With at least half of your studies delivered throughteaching and the other half through your own