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ARCH9113: Advanced Topics in Australian Architecture
2025 unit information
This unit will explore the history of Australian architecture in its various contexts. In lectures, seminars and site visits students will encounter key architects, projects and building types and their relation to Australian history. Students will undertake individual self-directed research and learn how to record and present the results of this research. Students will develop an appreciation of the factors that shape architectural design and thought in Australia and how these relate to wider social and cultural circumstances. Classes and assessment will explore the library on Australian architecture. On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: demonstrate an advanced familiarity with a range of Australian architects, buildings and types; research, record and present a specific project in Sydney; connect specific works to other works of a similar style, period or cultural context. This will be assessed in the final submission.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate advanced knowledge of a selected range of social, cultural, technological, and political factors that have shaped Australian architecture
- LO2. conduct research in the holdings of the city’s collections, archives, and libraries
- LO3. demonstrate critical analysis and the ability to examine works of architecture in their context, reflect on their connections with works, movements, and ideas of various kinds
- LO4. construct an argument that is informed by and extends the literature on the history of Australian architecture and its cognate fields
- LO5. demonstrate your ability to think abstractly, conceptually, and critically about architecture, both contemporary and historical
- LO6. convey a coherent argument in visual, verbal, and written forms.
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Intensive December 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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