Bachelor of Architecture and Environments

Overview

This course addresses the diversification of professional roles graduates of architectural bachelor's degrees are likely to enter, and the skills required of the next generation of built environment professionals.

You will be exposed to contextualisation of the practice of architecture. The course provides an architectural education that not only addresses the traditional role of the architect but also the emerging environment in which design is integrated with the full range of professional and business capabilities necessary to achieve successful development of property and infrastructure in a globalised and development-centred economy.

Design is a central skill but you will also need a wider understanding for your work that includes urban design, planning and policy and architectural science – energy, light, construction and acoustics, services, heritage and the IT systems which underlay contemporary design and modelling.

This degree maintains a core architectural design education but will place it within the wider framework if the built environment and the full range of methodologies used to analyse and synthesise it.

Study in planning, urban design and architectural science will add breadth to your immediate professional capacities as well as preparing you for specialist career pathways offered by the faculty’s full range of postgraduate courses.

These include direct entry to:

Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Master of Urban Design
Master of Architectural Science (with specialisations in acoustics, high performance buildings, illumination design and sustainable design)
Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts and
Master of Architecture

Bachelor in Architecture and Environment enrolment guide

In order to qualify for the Bachelor of Design of Architecture and Environments, students must fulfil the requirements specified by the resolutions of Senate and the Faculty.

All students should familiarise themselves with the course resolutions as stated later in this handbook and monitor their own progress in reference to them.

The following points summarise the resolutions but do not replace them.

Summary of requirements

In order to qualify for the award of the pass degree, candidates need to:

successfully complete 144 credit points. 120 of these are made up of core units of study listed in Table D
successfully complete at least 24 credit points of elective units of study, including a minimum of 12 credit points of senior elective units of study listed in Table D.

Students may, with the permission of the unit coordinator concerned, enrol in elective units of study from the faculty's tables of graduate units, provided they have completed at least 96 credit points with a weighted average mark (WAM) of at least 70.

Master of Architecture prerequisite unit of study

Students wishing to proceed to the Master of Architecture must complete BDES3025 Architectural Professional Practice. There are other conditions for entry to the Master of Architecture. Prospective students should refer to the information for that degree.

Honours

In order to qualify for admission to the honours degree candidates must satisfy the requirements for the pass degree with a weighted average mark (WAM) of at least 70. The one-year honours degree is only offered in full-time mode, requiring successful completion of 48 credit points, culminating in a research thesis. Refer to the honours section of this handbook for further information.

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