Course overview
This course enables student learners to develop an architectural proposition in response to specific topics, themes, or questions framed in the course. Drawing on prior learning in preceding architectural design studios, students establish and apply design research methods, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, integrate ethical considerations, and engage in critical reflective practice. The course emphasises speculative responses to socio-cultural and environmental challenges that are informed by global perspectives and contextual responses to address the diversity human needs and aspirations. Learners gain exposure to industry professionals, working individually and collaboratively to prepare them for contemporary practice. Students will demonstrate their mastery in the discipline, provide evidence of their creative thinking and capacity to innovate.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop and demonstrate higher order disciplinary knowledge and skills through a range of media including analogue and digital graphic, verbal, and textual means
- Develop and apply advanced knowledge of Country, historical, cultural, social, economic, and environmental concerns in relation to architectural practice
- Apply creative practice methods, imagination, and critical judgement to synthesise speculative and practical knowledge and skills in architecture projects
- Apply specialised materials and construction systems to propose and communicate complex solutions for fabrication
- Operate with a sophisticated understanding of the social, ethical, and environmental power of architecture to influence society
- Be an adaptable and accountable professional, possessing the ability to work autonomously and in multi-disciplinary teams in the preparation of projects of varying scales and complexities
- Demonstrate nominated professional performance competencies from the National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA)