Sheffield School of Architecture

The Sheffield School of Architecture is an architecture school in Sheffield, England, and part of the University of Sheffield. It is located on the top 6 floors of the Arts Tower.^[1] The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015 placed SSoA among the top two schools of architecture in the UK (up from 3rd in the Times 2014 Guide).^[2] The School was rated 2nd by architectural practices in the Architects Journal, AJ100 2014 list of the best schools of architecture in the UK.^[3] It has a strong social and political agenda.

The School is one of the longest established architecture schools in the UK, opening in 1908^[4] and has courses accredited by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 SSoA ranked 4th in the UK.^[5]

It also has an active student society (SUAS).

Notable people

• Prof Fionn Stevenson - Head of the Sheffield School of Architecture from 2013
• Prof Paul Monaghan - visiting professor
• Prof Peter Blundell Jones - architect, historian, academic and critic
• Prof Saleh Uddin - architect, author and academic
• Prof Flora Samuel - Head of the Sheffield School of Architecture 2010-2013
• Prof Sarah Wigglesworth - architect

References

1. ↑ https://architecture.dept.shef.ac.uk/ssoa_news/?p=2531
2. ↑ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/undergraduate
3. ↑ https://architecture.dept.shef.ac.uk/ssoa_news/?p=2036
4. ↑ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/about/history
5. ↑ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/latest/ref

External links

• Sheffield School of Architecture

University of Sheffield
People	Chancellor: Lady Justice Rafferty Vice-Chancellor: Sir Keith Burnett Academics Alumni Associates
Schools and research	Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism Management School Medical School School of Architecture Sheffield iSchool Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory
Buildings	Alfred Denny Building Arts Tower Drama Studio Firth Court Goodwin Sports Centre Hicks Building Information Commons Octagon Centre Sheffield Bioincubator Sir Frederick Mappin Building St George's Church, Portobello Turner Museum of Glass University House
Student life	Students' Union Bummit Endcliffe Student Village Film Unit Forge Press Forge Radio Orienteering Club Student housing Twikker
Affiliates	Russell Group CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield N8 Research Partnership White Rose University Consortium
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Architecture schools in the United Kingdom
Architecture schools
England	Architectural Association School of Architecture UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment Birmingham School of Architecture Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge Canterbury School of Architecture Coventry University Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Building Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University Lincoln School of Architecture, University of Lincoln University of Liverpool School of Architecture Manchester School of Architecture Nottingham Trent University School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment Sheffield School of Architecture School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University Plymouth University School of Architecture, Design and Environment
Scotland	Dundee School of Architecture Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh School of Architecture Mackintosh School of Architecture Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment
Wales	Welsh School of Architecture
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