C10413v1 Bachelor of Design in Architecture Master of Architecture
Award(s): Bachelor of Design in Architecture (BDesArch)Master of Architecture (MArch)
UAC code: 609556 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 103340A
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 240
Course EFTSL: 5
Location: City campus
Notes
The Bachelor of Design in Architecture Master of Architecture leads to professional recognition as an architect.
C10413 Bachelor of Design in Architecture Master of Architecture consists of the identical program as (C10004) Bachelor of Design in Architecture from Year 1 through to Year 3 and as (C04235) Master of Architecture from Year 4 through to Year 5.
To progress through to Years 4 to 5, students are required to achieve, as at the end of Year 3, a WAM of 70 or above across all subjects taken in Years 1 and 3. Students who do not meet this requirement are transferred to (C10004) Bachelor of Design in Architecture to graduate, and if they so wish, may apply for (C04235) Master of Architecture via the UTS postgraduate application process. Students who achieve a WAM of 70 or above and yet no longer wish to progress through to Years 4 to 5 may elect to transfer to (C10004) Bachelor of Design in Architecture and graduate with a Bachelor of Design in Architecture degree, which, on its own, is not professionally accredited.
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Professional recognition
Other information
Overview
The Bachelor of Design in Architecture is the first of two degrees needed to become an architect. Students wishing to qualify for professional recognition as architects must also complete the Master of Architecture program.
This course is an innovative and flexible professional degree. Through a non-sequential structure, which allows students to select from a range of core and elective subjects, it gives students choice regarding their professional specialisation that can best serve them in their future careers. Architectural design subjects enhance a critical understanding of architecture as both a discipline with an existing body of knowledge and a set of practices that continuously challenge and add to that body of knowledge.
Architectural practice subjects prepare students for expanded practice in emerging media and markets, contemporary business practice and global economies and within challenging social, environmental, political and regulatory contexts. Students who complete a Master of Architecture degree and subsequent practical experience are eligible to become registered architects.
Course aims
The course aims to produce graduates who are able to:
- work collaboratively in local and international architectural practices of differing scale, structure and operation
- be strategic and enterprising practice leaders
- critically analyse, evaluate, question and engage in informed argument
- communicate ideas effectively
- extend knowledge and understanding through research skills and transfer this creatively through the design process
- put forward accurate and persuasive architectural proposals, and
- apply ethical, environmental, cultural, aesthetic and technological considerations in architectural practice.
Career options
Career options include architect, designer, urban designer, architecture journalist, or critic.
Course intended learning outcomes
| A.1 | Apply an informed ethical and sustainable attitude to the discipline by positioning work within a broader social context |
| A.1.MT | Establish and develop an informed and ethical position towards social, technical and environmental issues and practices |
| A.2 | Undertake a critically directed, self-aware mode of disciplinary thinking |
| A.2.MT | Recognise and appreciate local and global cultural diversities and values |
| A.3 | Acknowledge Indigenous, cultural and historical values within the development of the project |
| C.1 | Work cooperatively and professionally as part of a team |
| C.1.MT | Work cooperatively and professionally as part of a team, initiate partnerships with others, take a leadership role when required, and constructively contribute to peer learning |
| C.2 | Constructively contribute to peer learning by communicating through various modes of oral, written and graphic communication |
| C.2.MT | Communicate ideas professionally and effectively through a variety of mediums: oral, written, visual, physical and digital |
| C.3 | Display leadership qualities throughout the production and delivery of the project |
| I.1 | Develop innovative approaches by challenging disciplinary conventions |
| I.1.MT | Produce inspirational responses that demonstrate the successful integration of sub-disciplinary areas of knowledge: history, theory, tectonics and/or practice |
| I.2 | Creative synthesis of complex ideas, arguments and rationales that address an array of social, technical and environmental practices |
| I.2.MT | Creatively use architectural media, technologies and materials |
| P.1 | Test technique-led architectural design processes against a range of architectural concerns |
| P.1.MT | Understand and challenge disciplinary conventions through an engagement with emergent forms of architectural practice, technologies and modes of production |
| P.2 | Apply a sophisticated understanding of architectural scale to aid the development of an architectural proposition |
| P.2.MT | Thoughtfully apply disciplinary learning in work, with a continuing commitment to personal professional development |
| P.3 | Respond to a comprehensive brief within the disciplinary context |
| P.4 | Evidence a three-dimensional understanding of spatial sequence and organisation |
| P.5 | Integrate an understanding of a relationship between form, materiality, structure and construction within design thinking |
| P.6 | Evidence disciplinary knowledge through the application of physical and/or digital mediums |
| R.1 | Employ an iterative approach to learning using disciplinary specific research methods |
| R.1.MT | Position work within an extended and critically reasoned context through the identification, evaluation and application of relevant academic references and architectural case studies |
| R.2 | Source, evaluate and/or utilise accepted, disciplinary specific, academic frameworks |
| R.2.MT | Define, develop and apply an appropriate design method in the execution of an architectural project |
| R.3 | Employ critical thinking to evidence an awareness of past and contemporary disciplinary thinking |
| R.3.MT | Independently analyse, synthesise and formulate complex ideas, arguments and rationales and use initiative to explore alternatives |
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
UTS: Design, Architecture and Building may consider applications based on the results of the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) if students lack academic qualifications but have extensive professional experience. The STAT is conducted through the Universities Admissions Centre.
Non-current school leavers are selected on the basis of academic merit or on the basis of portfolio and interview rank.
Students must refer to the portfolio eligibility for the faculty’s consideration in order to get a place.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Course duration and attendance
This course is offered on a five-year, full time or part-time equivalent.
Course structure
Students must complete 240 credit points made up of 144 credit points from the bachelor program and 96 credit points from the master program.
Course completion requirements
| STM91342 Core subjects (Architecture) | 132cp | |
| STM90794 Core subjects | 72cp | |
| CBK91801 Electives | 12cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Total | 240cp |
Course program
The following example shows a typical full-time program.
| Autumn commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11273 Architectural Studio 1 | 12cp | |
| 11212 Architectural History and Theory: Orientations | 6cp | |
| 11214 Spatial Communications 1 | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11274 Architectural Studio 2 | 12cp | |
| 11216 Architectural History and Theory: Modernity and Modernism | 6cp | |
| 11206 Introduction to Construction and Structural Synthesis | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11275 Architectural Studio 3 | 12cp | |
| 11248 Architectural History and Theory: Urbanism and the City | 6cp | |
| 11207 Architectural Design and Construction | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11276 Architectural Studio 4 | 12cp | |
| 11222 Architectural History and Theory: Critique | 6cp | |
| 11225 Thermal Design and Environmental Control | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11277 Architectural Studio 5 | 12cp | |
| 11232 Lighting, Acoustics and Advanced Environmental Control | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11278 Architectural Studio 6 | 12cp | |
| 11247 Architectural History and Theory: Current Events and Debates | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11504 Practice: Research Cultures | 6cp | |
| 11551 Masters Architectural Design Studio 1 | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11503 Practice: The Profession | 6cp | |
| 11552 Masters Architectural Design Studio 2 | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Year 5 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11502 Practice: Finance and Project Management | 6cp | |
| 11553 Masters Architectural Design Studio 3 | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11501 Practice: Advocacy | 6cp | |
| Select 12 credit points from the following: | 12cp | |
| 11554 Masters Architectural Design Studio 4 | 12cp | |
| 11555 Masters Architectural Design Thesis | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Spring commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Spring session | ||
| 11274 Architectural Studio 2 | 12cp | |
| 11216 Architectural History and Theory: Modernity and Modernism | 6cp | |
| 11206 Introduction to Construction and Structural Synthesis | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 11273 Architectural Studio 1 | 12cp | |
| 11212 Architectural History and Theory: Orientations | 6cp | |
| 11214 Spatial Communications 1 | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11275 Architectural Studio 3 | 12cp | |
| 11248 Architectural History and Theory: Urbanism and the City | 6cp | |
| 11207 Architectural Design and Construction | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11276 Architectural Studio 4 | 12cp | |
| 11222 Architectural History and Theory: Critique | 6cp | |
| 11225 Thermal Design and Environmental Control | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11277 Architectural Studio 5 | 12cp | |
| 11232 Lighting, Acoustics and Advanced Environmental Control | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11278 Architectural Studio 6 | 12cp | |
| 11247 Architectural History and Theory: Current Events and Debates | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11504 Practice: Research Cultures | 6cp | |
| 11551 Masters Architectural Design Studio 1 | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11503 Practice: The Profession | 6cp | |
| 11552 Masters Architectural Design Studio 2 | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Year 5 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11502 Practice: Finance and Project Management | 6cp | |
| 11553 Masters Architectural Design Studio 3 | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11501 Practice: Advocacy | 6cp | |
| Select 12 credit points from the following: | 12cp | |
| 11554 Masters Architectural Design Studio 4 | 12cp | |
| 11555 Masters Architectural Design Thesis | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90795 Electives | 24cp | |
Professional recognition
The Bachelor of Design in Architecture followed by the Master of Architecture is accredited for professional recognition by the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia and recognised by the NSW Architects Registration Board, the Australian Institute of Architects and the Commonwealth Association of Architects.
Other information
Further information is available from:
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or +61 2 9514 1222
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