Graduate Diploma in Architecture and Spatial Practice

Royal College of Art

• Build the knowledge, skills, and portfolio to progress from a non-architectural background to the RCA's Architecture MArch, or further advanced study.
• Bring your existing knowledge, interests and experience into an experimental and immersive design-led studio culture that encourages new ways of thinking and making.
• Join the programme’s interdisciplinary community and the wider RCA to experiment across design, making, technical and theoretical learning.
• Learn from London through site visits and fieldwork, and gain first-hand experience of how buildings relate to the urban context and impact communities.

The Royal College of Art’s Graduate Diploma in Architecture & Spatial Practice is an immersive introduction to the spatial disciplines for graduates from any educational background.

Whether looking to change your career, or pivot from a different undergraduate specialism in the UK or internationally, this year-long programme provides access to further architectural study and training.

Students build on their existing knowledge to develop new skills and explore new ways of thinking, designing and engaging with the contemporary world. Through experimentation, making and critical enquiry, students are challenged to imagine more sustainable, equitable, resilient and regenerative futures.

The programme opens a pathway to transfer into the RCA’s Architecture MArch, or forge new creative directions in architecture and spatial practice.