702-103 Architectural Design & Practice 1

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Students will undertake a series of readings, studio-based exercises and assignments introducing them to: methods of analysis, abstraction, and synthesis in design thinking that are common to the fields of building and architecture; basic composition and applied organisational techniques widely used by designers; the effects that planning and program, spatial order (and its conceptualisation), materials, technology and the environment have on design. Assignments require a synthesis with the student's concurrent studies in other subjects (particularly; Construction Technology and Communications), culminating in the architectural design of small-scaled, energy-efficient buildings with simple programs.

Assessment

Assessment will be based on a major project and a review of a portfolio of assignments set during the semester. (Projects, studio tests, exercises and tutorial presentations, to the equivalent of 7500 words).

Prescribed Texts

• B Lawson, Design in Mind. Butterworth Architecture, 1994.
  or
  F Ching, Architecture: Form, Space and Order. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1979.