C04220v1 Master of Digital Architecture

Overview

This course is a design-based, post-professional coursework program that critically explores current advancements in design production and thinking to postulate new forms of urbanism and architectural space. In 2010, this course is evolving into the Master of Advanced Architecture, Design Technologies stream.

The Master of Digital Architecture helps practising architects and designers to rethink the design process and use technology to embrace the emergent practice of non-standard architecture. This course enhances students' skills in spatial thinking and takes their designs in a new direction. Architecture as a built reality maintains a close relationship to the modes and techniques of representation. The advent of digital software has released a unique potential that can lead to a significant rethinking, re-imaging and reconfiguration of the built environment. Given the fact that this is a relatively new area of architectural investigation within both the academic and the professional context, the course offers students an opportunity to be at the forefront of interrogation in this field.

Course aims

The course aims to provide a setting to fully explore the implications of the digital through a rigorous testing of the architectural form and the potential implicit to these types of software.

Graduates of this course:

• develop an advanced professional capacity in digital design and production
• develop an understanding of the relationship of this capacity to other areas of digital animation and computer-generated representations of design
• enhance their knowledge of the theory and history of digital architecture
• instigate and conduct creative research in digital architecture at an advanced level
• undertake creative and technical responsibility for the development of a significant digital architectural project, including the formulation and presentation of the project
• develop improved collaborative skills by working as members of a design team, and
• rethink the role of architecture in relation to advancements in culture, theory, technology and design.

Career options

Career options include positions in analogue and RP modelling, architectural animation and visualisation, architectural design, internet design and publication. Students are also more academically qualified to teach in higher education in areas of architectural design and technology.

Admission requirements

Applicants must have a bachelor's degree in architecture or a design-related field within the built environment.

Applicants must also submit a portfolio of design work that demonstrates proficiency in visual communication in digital media. This work must demonstrate an advanced awareness of three dimensional form, space and graphic visualisation.

Assumed knowledge

Students should have a knowledge of the built environment and be able to think in '3D'.

Course duration and attendance

This course is offered on a one-year full-time, or two-year part-time basis.

Course structure

This course comprises 48 credit points of study and project work, made up of 24 credit points of digital architecture project, 12 credit points of digital master class, a 6-credit-point digital theory subject and a 6-credit-point animation elective.

Students have the opportunity to conduct research throughout the course to devise their own specialist area.

Course completion requirements

Course program

Example programs are shown below for a full-time student commencing in Autumn and Spring semester.

Other information

Further information is available from the Building 6 Student Centre on: