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BDES1026: Architecture Studio 1A
2025 unit information
This course aims at providing students with the conceptual and technical skills required to creatively explore dynamic transactions between artistic processes, place and architecture. Throughout the semester, students will extend their ability to work with complex ideas while drawing on interdisciplinary practices related to structure, form and site. This course provides a space for architecture students to establish parameters and territories for exploration beyond the concerns of conventional architectural projects. From generative form making to performative action, this course has an emphasis on making with material exploration. Essential design sensitivities and skills will be developed through different modes of working including lectures, tutorials, presentations and writing as well as the physical engagement with new materials and building processes.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 12 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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BDES1011 |
| Prohibitions:
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DESA1001 or BDES1010 or BDES1024 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. experiment and identify with techniques and materials in order to formulate ideas within selected mediums, emphasising interdisciplinary process, sensory interactions, and critical contextualisation
- LO2. learn the fundamental elements of architectural design; learn how to combine these elements to make space and form; begin to learn design processes; develop an understanding or required processes, techniques and materials; theoretical, social and/or historic engagement
- LO3. use a range of secondary and primary research sources in order to enrich and articulate ideas in both written and verbal presentations
- LO4. exercise critical judgment and realistic self-evaluation through class discussions, presentations and the use of process journals
- LO5. demonstrate awareness of broader ideas in diverse field of contemporary art/design practices informing students own creative works.
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