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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning : Guide to courses
Architectural History is taught within the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, but also in the Faculty of Arts. It deals with aspects of the history, interpretation, representation, cultural context, design, planning, construction, and conservation of buildings, viewed in a perspective of social history and cultural milieu. Specific subject areas include the wide range of European architecture, architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Greek and Roman architecture, Asian architecture, and Australian architecture.
A major in this area can lead to postgraduate studies as indicated below. These postgraduate studies are most often directed towards professional specialisation in the building conservation field. Although the specific major detailed below has only recently been introduced, earlier graduates of the Faculties in this field constitute a large proportion of the professionals now working for private consultants and government in Victoria in the areas of survey and identification, design and conservation controls, historical research, and the physical conservation of buildings.
It is recommended that students intending to undertake this major consider undertaking two of the first-year Architectural History subjects listed below as preliminary studies to second and third-year subjects.
The major comprises 25 points of first-year (two of the listed three subjects) and 87.5 points of second-year and third-year subjects from the subjects listed. Students will normally take 702-231 Modern Architecture A: 19th Century in the first semester of their second year.
The prerequisite for entry to Honours in Architectural History is an H2B average or higher of the second/third-year level subjects completed. Entry to fourth-year honours requires the approval of the Faculty of Arts.
Students taking Pure Honours in Architectural History must complete 100 points of subjects at the fourth-year level from the subjects below including 702-408 Architectural History Research Methods, and 702-409 Research Project (Architectural History).
Students may wish to combine study in Architectural History with study in Classical Studies, Art History, or Japanese. Students taking Architectural History Combined Honours must complete:
702-474 Investigation Program A (12.5 points), and
705-402 Research Project B (37.5 points) and at least one of the single semester Architectural History honours subjects from the subject list below, and
subjects in the other department according to the requirements of that department (37.5 points),
or
a thesis equivalent in another department according to the requirements of that department (37.5 points), and
subjects in the other department according to the requirements of that department (37.5 points), and
a minimum of two single-semester Architectural History honours subjects from the subjects below.
A degree in Architectural History can lead to the Postgraduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Architectural History and Conservation), the Postgraduate Diploma in Art Curatorship, or the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Tourism and Visual Arts. The honours degree can lead to a Master of Planning and Design (Architectural History and Conservation) by coursework or research, or to the Master of Arts by research. PhD study is also available in the contributing departments.
| Fourth year Honours subjects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | ||
| 702-475 Investigation Program B | 12.5 | |
| 702-421 Urban Design Theory | 12.5 | |
| 107-067 Renaissance and Baroque Rome 1450-1750 | 25 | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| 702-432 Australian Architecture B | 12.5 | |
| 705-441 Western Lineages of Urban Planning | 12.5 | |
| 705-415 Perceptions of the Australian Landscape | 12.5 | |
| Year long subject | ||
| 705-402 Research Project B | 37.5 | |
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