Course overview
This course develops students’ understanding of the interrelationship between built and natural environments, including architecture, landscape architecture, and urban environments; their physical and meta-physical context, and ethical responsibility to the public user. The studio further develops design as a speculative process of inquiry and experimentation, integrating critically observed aspects of the urban environment and related issues as well as considerations of form, space, and surface. Students will consider cities, landscapes and urban environments as complex living systems within ethical and political contexts.
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse processes used in the design of the natural and built environment and apply them to compositions that demonstrate an understanding of the relationship shared between people, human activities, and the natural and built environment
- Interpret, critically evaluate, and synthesise a defined project brief requirements into design proposals of increasing complexity
- Articulate the historic and evolving role of built environment professionals in the complex ethical and political contexts of project development and delivery
- Argue their position as a designer in relation to environmental themes and positions, to a range of audiences for a variety of purposes and contribute in a positive and collaborative manner to achieving common goals
- Apply analogue and digital graphic techniques and modelling to describe three-dimensional form and spatial interrelationships between built and natural environments
- Demonstrate the application of sophisticated visual and verbal communication skills both autonomously and in a team setting
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 28940
Section FR01
Size 220
Available 219
Class number 28942
Section ST01
Size 110
Available 109
Class number 28941
Section ST02
Size 110
Available 110
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