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If you're an aspiring architect, there's a new degree program out of London's London South Bank University that may have just the thing for you.
Called a BA in Architecture (full-time or part-time), it's designed to teach students "the necessary skills for professional practice, and investigate the necessary skills for professional practice, and design for sustainability," the school says in a press release.
Students will learn to "draw, reproduce, model, and, above all, resolve problems with a genuine social purpose and directly solve problems with a genuine social purpose," the school adds.
They'll also work on a range of projects, from a museum redevelopment to a live-work apartment complex, the release notes.
One of the students behind the program, Marco Vanucci, tells the Telegraph that the idea for the degree came to him while he was working on a project in Italy.
"I was looking at the industrial past of the city and seeing how things had changed over the centuries," he says.
"The idea was to take that past and use it as a starting point for thinking about the future."
The project, called the New Silk Road, is intended to "regeneration the typology of significant heritage structures within the city of London
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