Secure your place – Architecture

Find out about our application process, eligibility requirements and key dates.

Applications are now open for 2025 entry. The final application deadline for Master’s and MPhil/PhD programmes is 30 June 2025, 12 noon GMT.

City Design MA

Embrace an interdisciplinary approach to creating new spaces. Benefit from our studio-based teaching, justice-oriented thinking, and transformative design approach. Explore urban design principles and practices, including policy, planning, and digital tools. Become part of a community advocating for environmental and spatial justice.

City design is more than just designing physical structures. It’s about how we live together, work, and move. And, at a time of multiple crises, we need to design not just practical responses but reimagine the future. Studying at a leading art and design college, you’ll be perfectly placed to do exactly that.

1 year full-time

Design Practice MArch

Engaging with the built environment in a sustainable way. We’ve created this new one-year MArch Design Practice for architects and designers who want to study spatial practice in a broader sense. While this isn’t a RIBA/ARB validated part II programme, it’s a unique opportunity to develop tools to deliver renewable and equitable futures.

Develop your practice in a flexible way. You take core units such as material processes and carbon economies and choose from a range of electives, including housing & social reproduction, digital storytelling or soundscapes.

1 year full-time or 2 years part-time programme

Environmental Architecture MA

Our MA Environmental Architecture creates a new field of knowledge production and practice for the design of alternative forms of co-dependence between life forms and earth systems. Studying with us, you’ll gain insight from leading figures in Environmental Architecture as you explore histories and theories of environmental change, multispecies and more-than-human design, environmental law and climate justice.

1 year full-time

Graduate Diploma Art & Design (Design specialism)

The Graduate Diploma prepares you for Master’s study at the RCA. The Design specialism supports students aspiring to a Master's in the School of Architecture. Applications for the Graduate Diploma Art & Design intake in May 2025 will open in January. Register for updates and reminders about applying to the Graduate Diploma.

30 weeks | On-campus, online or dual-learning modes of study

Online Open Day

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Register for Open Days, Portfolio Q&A sessions, Campus Tours and the chance to meet the RCA globally and in the UK.

The School of Architecture offers an unparalleled interdisciplinary context to pursue design research in the spatial disciplines. Located in Kensington, the School of Architecture provides a stimulating and vibrant cultural context for study in one of the world’s leading cities. Realise live projects and work alongside leading designers and artists in a postgraduate-only environment.

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Our alumni

School of Architecture alumni form an international network of creative individuals who have shaped and continue to shape the world. These include former students such as Ben Kelly (MA Interior Design); Ed Barber & Jay Osgerby (MA Architecture); Maxwell Ayrton; Paul Karakusevic; Yussef Agbo-Ola (MA Environmental Architecture), Sadie Morgan and Alex De Rijke (MA Architecture); Sir Edwin Lutyens; Sir James Dyson (MA Furniture Design); Tom Coward AOC (Architecture & Interiors); Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald (MA Architecture); Mingxin Li (MA Environmental Architecture).