young architects group

Welcome to the UK's only weekly architecture group! These sessions are structured to teach our students the basics of building and spacial design to help them understand the implications of their design decisions. Sessions will include an introduction to scale, technical and representational drawing and model making - all based around exciting project briefs. We run a biannual showcase of the students' work at the Royal Photographic Society to celebrate the students' achievements with all their friends and family!

The awareness of the importance of an architectural education for children has been steadily growing as the value of their spatial and cultural knowledge becomes apparent. Education, from an early age, is one of the most important ways of protecting the cultural landscape and maintaining sustainable architectural development - including its including aesthetic, cultural and creative quality. 

In countries such as Poland, the topic of integrating architectural educational into the core curriculum is very popular with the momentum leaning towards raising children as conscious recipients of space. In Finland and Norway architecture has been fully embraced within the curriculum. 

There is an inherent value in architectural education for children and young people as they are members of, and future adults in, society. Educators and practitioners from a range of disciplines  have espoused the ‘manifest value’ in children’s built environment education; regardless of whether  they are to go on to work in the built environment. By providing architecture education to children, our future adult citizens will have different  expectations of quality regarding their built environments. They would be less likely to  perceive architecture as primarily a matter of ‘decoration’, and more likely to take an active role in  its development.

The sessions will be taken by Kate, who has nearly a decade of teaching experience, an honours degree in architecture and industry experience from her time working in practice. Read more about our teachers here.

We are so grateful to the wonderful people at Hidden Gallery for generously donating their mountboard offcuts to our classes. Because of their kindness, we only need to ask for a £15 contribution towards materials (this covers sketchbooks, scalpels and blades, uhu glue, model people, trees and grass etc). Thank you so much, Hidden!

Information
Age classes available for ages 7 - 18
Mondays 16:30 - 18:00 (ages 12 - 15) / 18:00 - 19:30 (ages 12 - 15)
Fridays 17:00 - 18:30 (ages 7 - 12) / 18:30 - 20:00 (ages 15 - 18)
Price £10/ class
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Session Timetable



(September 2023 - July 2024)


Our term dates are set based on those of local schools - although some schools and academies may choose to adopt different dates.


We do run our classes on bank holidays as many fall on a Monday, and we do not wish for these sessions to fall behind our Friday classes.

Term From To Block
Term 1 Monday 4 Sep 2023 Friday 20 October 2023 7 weeks
Term 2 Monday 30 October 2023 Friday 15 December 2023 7 weeks
Term 3 Monday 8 January 2024 Friday 9 February 2024 5 weeks
Term 4 Monday 19 February 2024 Friday 29 March 2024 6 weeks
Term 5 Monday 15 April 2024 Friday 24 May 2024 6 weeks
Term 6 Monday 3 June 2024 Friday 26 July 2024 7 weeks

Our Studio: Studio C, 14 Backfields Lane, BS2 8QW

Backfields Land Studios was bought in 2008 by Askew - an Architecture Practice who still own the building. It was refurbished into 4 individual studios, one of which is still the home to Askew.


We have our home in Studio C on the first floor. Upon arrival, please ring our the buzzer by the building's entrance and we will come down to escort students to our space. We will also bring the group back down when the class has finished. There is a bathroom on site and we will have drinking water available.

Arrival Information

Studio C, Urban Design Studios,

14 Backfields Lane, BS2 8QW


Please ring our buzzer when you arrive

Bristol bus station is a 8 min walk from the studios.

There is bike storage within the building which you are free to use.

If you are dropping a student off there is space to stop and turn around at the end of Backfields Lane.

For car parking, Brunswick Square Short Stay is a 3 min walk away.

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