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ARCH4001
Communication

This module will introduce students to architectural presentation and representation skills. Underlying this intention will be to mainly support design studio work, especially to explore and develop the skills to discover how to communicate your ideas in two dimensional and three dimensional visual form.

ARCH4002
Design Studio

Students will be introduced to the concept of an architectural design project through individual and group work, in response to various project briefs of increasing size and complexity. This introduction is underpinned by engagement with creative and critical thinking through design inquiry, and exploration of basic graphic and three-dimensional representation skills.

ARCH4003
Technology

This module will provide the opportunity for students to develop their understanding of basic building construction and building physics. Students will be introduced to sustainability, materials, structure, construction and building physics.

ARCH4004
Integrated Design

In this module through both individual and group work, students to develop and explore architectural design project further following the skills that they gained in Design Studio 4.1 module. This module will provide the opportunity for students to further engage with creative and critical thinking, and exploration of architectural graphic and three-dimensional representation skills as a means of inquiry and presentation, pursued through various project briefs of increasing size and complexity.

ARCH4005
Histories, Theories and Critical Contexts

This module will introduce students to the task and methods of historical enquiry and to architecture as its subject matter through a survey of architectural history up to the late nineteenth century. Followed by the introduction of theoretical discourse that describe the practice and production of architecture, the critique of architecture, and its conceptual possibilities.

ARCH5001
Design Studio and Communication

This module challenges students to synthesise the social and environmental contexts of an urban site in a multi-occupancy design proposition sensitive to the specific social contexts of the site. Students will engage in an iterative design process to develop, critique, and reframe designerly thinking with conceptual alignment through the various scales and contexts of the project. Students will broaden and hone their representational and communications toolkits, building on foundational physical, graphical, and information management skills.

ARCH5002
Sustainable Technologies

In this module, students develop their understanding of building construction technologies and carbon literacy, and their influence in architectural design. This includes knowledge on building and material systems, embodied carbon, modern methods of construction, and relevant regulations on internal comfort and safety.

ARCH5003
Design Studio and Advancing Media

In this module, students will develop an architectural proposition through research and analysis of the complex social, environmental, ecological, and material contexts of the project site. The module emphasises the importance of design processes and exploratory thinking, and specifically challenges students to develop advancing and multimodal design skills to represent architectural and spatial thinking through complex modes of abstraction and media.

ARCH5004
Advanced Histories, Theories and Critical Contexts

This module will develop students understanding of historical enquiry and to architecture as its subject matter through a survey of the architectural history of the twentieth century. The module will also develop students’ understanding of theories related to the practice and production of architecture, the critique of architecture, and its conceptual possibilities.

ARCH6000
Critical Contexts Dissertation

The module engages students in situating practice through research, contextualisation and critical reflection, in relation to their final stage study and post University aspirations. Students can follow a traditional dissertation; preparation for an extended dissertation; situating existing practice; or the construction of a new body of work as practice-based research.

ARCH6001
Strategic Design Studio and Communication

In this module students will undertake in depth exploratory and analytical studies that inform and challenge the design process in the context of a specific modes of research situated around Urbanism, Material Adaptability, Ecology or Typologies to inform an architectural design project, and demonstrating an understanding of the industry and profession, business management and ethics, exploring and developing creative and critical thinking (i.e. design and representational) skills.

ARCH6002
Design Studio and Professional Practice

In this module, students will develop a complex architectural proposition through synthesis of their critical, designerly, professional, and communications skillsets in response to a comprehensive brief. The module emphasises the importance of design processes and foregrounds architects’ professional responsibilities, encouraging progressive approaches to statutory compliance and practice management. Students are challenged to use a broad architectural toolkit to develop and communicate design work.

ARCH6003
Sustainable Building Technologies

In this module students develop innovative and creative material strategies, aligned with net-zero mandates and making use of multiple means of physical and digital communication - such as models, digital experiences, and material prototyping. This knowledge is developed alongside a design project and invites students to creatively think about technical challenges in our future built environments.