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 702-104 Architectural Design 1C

Note

This subject is only available to mid-year and lateral entry students in BPD Architecture and BLArch. Enrolments by other degree students will be considered by the Dean on an individual basis and the subject will only be available to such students on a full-fee paying basis.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr David O'Brien

Prerequisites

702-103 Architectural Design 1B, or 705-174 Designing the Local Urban Landscape

Corequisites

702-123 Communications 1C

Semester

Summer (view timetable)

Contact

Twelve hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week, and additional studio work over six weeks

Subject Description

Students will undertake a series of readings, studio-based exercises and assignments that introduce the principles and methods of analysis, abstraction, and synthesis in design thinking that are common to many design fields, including architectural design, landscape design and building. Introduction to basic composition and applied organisational techniques widely used by designers; the effects that program, materials, technology and the environment have on design decisions; form and expression. Assignments require the student to synthesise knowledge from concurrent studies in other subjects.

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
  • R Clarke, Precedents in Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 2nd edition, 1996.
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