Bachelor of Design in Architecture (Honours) / Master of Architecture
Table A: Units of study in the Bachelor of Design in Architecture
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Bachelor of Design in Architecture - Core units of study |
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| Candidates are required to complete all of the following core units: | |||
Junior units of study |
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| BDES1011 Architectural History/Theory 1 |
6 | A HSC Mathematics and HSC English Standard N DESA1102 |
Semester 1 |
| BDES1023 Architectural Technologies 1 |
6 | N DESA1102 |
Semester 2 |
| BDES1026 Architecture Studio 1A |
12 | C BDES1011 N DESA1001 or BDES1010 or BDES1024 |
Semester 1 |
| BDES1027 Architecture Studio 1B |
12 | P BDES1026 or BDES1010 or DESA1001 C BDES1023 N BDES1020 or DESA1002 or BDES1012 |
Semester 2 |
Senior units of study |
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| BDES2013 Architectural Technologies 2 |
6 | P BDES1023 N DESA2111 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| BDES2024 Art Processes |
6 | P BDES1026 or BDES1024 |
Semester 2 |
| BDES2026 Architecture Studio 2A |
12 | P BDES1027 or BDES1020 or DESA1002 C BDES2013 N BDES2010 or DESA2001 or BDES2012 |
Semester 1 |
| BDES2027 Architecture Studio 2B |
12 | P BDES2026 and BDES1011 or BDES2010 or DESA2001 C BDES2024 N BDES2020 or DESA2002 or BDES2021 |
Semester 2 |
| BDES3011 Architectural History/Theory 3 |
6 | P BDES2027 or BDES2021 or DESA2111 N DAAP3001 |
Semester 1 |
| BDES3026 Architecture Studio 3A |
12 | P (BDES2027 or BDES2020) and BDES2013 C BDES3011 N BDES3010 or DESA3001 or BDES3023 |
Semester 1 |
| BDES3027 Architecture Studio 3B |
12 | P BDES3026 or BDES3010 or DESA3001 N BDES3020 or DESA3002 or BDES3012 |
Semester 2 |
Bachelor of Design in Architecture (Honours)/Master of Architecture honours core units |
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| Honours units in this degree will be offered from 2019 | |||
Recommended electives |
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| Students are strongly advised to undertake the following elective units of study: | |||
| AWSS1001 Architectural Sketching and Drawing |
6 | N DESA1601, DESA1602 Students may incur costs for materials in some Art Workshops units. |
Semester 1 |
Master of Architecture - Prerequisite unit of study |
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| Candidates wishing to proceed to the Master of Architecture are required to complete the following prerequisite unit. This unit may count towards the senior School electives. | |||
| BDES3025 Architectural Professional Practice |
6 | Semester 2 |
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School electives |
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| Candidates are required to complete a minimum of 42 credit points of elective units of study, including a minimum of 12 credit points of senior elective units of study from those listed below. Candidates who have passed 96 credit points with a Credit average may request permission to enrol in graduate units from Table G, the table of graduate units of study, or Table M, the Master of Architecture, in this handbook. | |||
Senior Art in Architecture elective units of study |
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| AWSS2002 Site Specific Art |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| AWSS2010 Architecture and Design Ceramic Processes |
6 | N DESA2634 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| AWSS2015 Generative Drawing |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 Summer Early |
| AWSS2020 Object Design |
6 | C DESA1555 N DESA2643 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| AWSS2023 Architectural Photography 1 |
6 | N DESA2629 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Early |
| AWSS2026 2D Print Processes in Design |
6 | N DESA2638 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Early |
| AWSS2027 Architecture and Design Material Processes |
6 | N DESA2636 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA3013 Expanded Colour: Theory to Application |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Early |
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Senior Architecture elective units of study |
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| DAAE2001 20th Century Australian Architecture |
6 | N DESA2305 |
Semester 2 |
| DAAE2002 Architecture, Place and Society This unit of study is not available in 2017 |
6 | N DESA2211 |
Semester 1 |
| DESA3003 Architectural Detailing |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| DESA3004 Architecture and Diagrams This unit of study is not available in 2017 |
6 | P 48 Credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| DESA3005 Architectural Drawing Through History |
6 | P 48 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| DESA3007 Prefab Architecture |
6 | P 48 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive February |
| DESA3008 Architectural Models: Theory and Practice |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| DESA3009 Advanced Fabrication |
6 | P 96 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| DESA3010 Code to Production |
6 | P 48 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| DESA3011 Introduction to Building Construction |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| DESA3012 Counter-Practices in Architecture |
6 | N ARCH9094 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| DESA3014 Finding Country |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive January |
| DESA3015 Broken Hill and Far West NSW Projects |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive July |
| DESA3441 Design Architecture Independent Study A |
6 | P 48 credit points and WAM of at least 70. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA3442 Design Architecture Independent Study B |
6 | P 48 credit points and WAM of at least 70. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA3443 Design Architecture Independent Study C |
6 | P 48 credit points and WAM of at least 70. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA3444 Design Architecture Independent Study D |
6 | P 48 credit points and WAM of at least 70. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA3551 Design Architecture General Elective A |
6 |
Departmental Permission will be required to enrol in this unit. |
Intensive February Intensive July Intensive June Intensive November Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| DESA3552 Design Architecture General Elective B |
6 | P 48 credit points. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive February Intensive January Intensive June Intensive November Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| DESA3553 Design Architecture General Elective C |
6 | P 48 credit points. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive June Intensive November Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| DESA3554 Design Architecture General Elective D |
6 | P 48 credit points. Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive January Intensive June Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| MARC6204 Graduate Exhibition |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
Junior Architectural Science elective units of study |
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| DESA1004 Designing with Surfaces and Light |
6 | N DESA2612 |
Semester 2 Summer Main Winter Main |
Senior Architectural Science elective units of study |
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| DAAE2005 Designing with Colour |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Early Winter Main |
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| DAAE2008 Innovative Building Structures |
6 | P BDES1023 N DESA2206 |
Semester 2 |
| DAAE3001 Sustainable Architectural Practice |
6 | P DESA2111 or BDES1023 or DESA1102 N DESA2201 or DESA2202 or DESA2207 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
Junior Design Computing elective units of study |
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| DECO1012 Design Programming |
6 | Semester 1 |
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Senior Design Computing elective units of study |
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| DAAE2011 Intro to Visual Communication Design |
6 | N DAAE2009 or DECO1015 or DECO1100 or DECO2101 |
Semester 1 Summer Early |
| DECO2010 Designing Social Media |
6 | Intensive June Semester 1 |
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| DECO2015 Design for Innovation |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| DECO2101 Visual Communication |
6 | N DECO1015 or DECO1100 or DAAE2009 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive June Semester 1 |
| DECO2102 Web Design and Technologies |
6 | N DECO1016 |
Semester 2 |
| DECO2103 3D Modelling and Fabrication |
6 | N DECO1008 |
Semester 1 |
| DECO2015 Design for Innovation |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| DECO2016 Design Thinking |
6 | N DECO1006 Not available to students in the Bachelor of Design Computing and the Bachelor of Architecture and Environments |
Semester 2 |
| DECO3101 Innovation Design Studio |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| DECO3006 Animation and Motion Design |
6 | Semester 2 |
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Junior Planning elective units of study |
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| DAAE1001 Living Cities |
6 | A DECO1006 and DECO1012 and BDES1011 and AWSS1001 |
Semester 2 |
Senior Planning elective units of study |
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| BADP2002 City Form and Development |
6 | P DAAE1001 |
Semester 1 |
Table M: Units of study in the Master of Architecture
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Master of Architecture Core units of study |
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| Candidates are required to complete the following core units of study: | |||
| MARC4001 Urban Architecture Research Studio |
12 |
This studio cannot be taken in the same semester as MARC4002 or MARC4003. Students may incur materials costs in this unit. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARC4002 Sustainable Architecture Research Studio |
12 |
This studio cannot be taken in the same semester with MARC4001 or MARC4003. Students may incur materials costs in this unit. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARC4003 Digital Architecture Research Studio |
12 |
This studio cannot be taken in the same semester with MARC4001 or MARC4002. Students may incur materials costs in this unit. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARC5001 Graduation Studio |
12 | P MARC4001 and MARC4002 and MARC4003 N ARCH5201 or MARF5201 Students may incur materials costs in this unit. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARC4101 Advanced Technologies 1 |
6 | C MARC4001 or MARC4002 or MARC4003 N ARCH4202 |
Semester 1 |
| MARC5101 Advanced Technologies 2 |
6 | N ARCH4203 |
Semester 2 |
| MARC4102 Modern Architectural Theory |
6 | N ARCH6104 or ARCH9048 or ARCH9049 |
Semester 2 |
| MARC4201 Modern Architectural History |
6 | N ARCH4102 |
Semester 1 |
| MARC5102 Contract Documentation |
6 | N ARCH4103 |
Semester 2 |
Elective units of study |
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| Candidates must complete 18 credit points from the units of study listed below. With permission of the unit of study coordinator, students may also undertake units of study listed in Table G, the School's table of Graduate Units of Study. | |||
| ARCH9001 Urban Design Studio A |
12 | P ARCH9100 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ARCH9063 Urban Morphology |
6 | A Some prior study of architectural, urban or planning history. P ARCH9100 N ARCH9021 |
Semester 2 |
| ARCH9074 Principles of Heritage Conservation |
6 | N ARCH9003 |
Semester 1 |
| ARCH9075 New Design in Old Settings |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ARCH9094 Counter-Practices in Architecture |
6 | A BDES1011 and BDES2027 and BDES3011 N DESA3012 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| ARCH9104 Architecture and Diagrams This unit of study is not available in 2017 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| ARCH9105 Architectural Drawing Through History |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| ARCH9106 Architectural Investigations: Models |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ARCH9107 Prefab Architecture |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive February |
| ARCH9109 Advanced Fabrication |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| ARCH9110 Code to Production |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 |
| ARCH9111 Broken Hill and Far West NSW Projects |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive July |
| ARCH9112 Finding Country |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive January |
| ARCH9113 20th Century Australian Architecture |
6 | N DAAE2001 |
Semester 2 |
| DESA9008 Object Design |
6 | A DESA1555 N AWSS2020 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA9012 2D Print Processes in Design |
6 | N AWSS2026 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA9013 Architecture and Design Material Processes |
6 | N AWSS2027 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESA9014 Architecture and Design Ceramic Processes |
6 | N AWSS2010 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| DESC9014 Building Construction Technology |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| DESC9015 Building Energy Analysis |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| DESC9048 Operational Facility Management |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| DESC9074 Project Management |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| DESC9138 Architectural and Audio Acoustics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| DESC9169 Daylight in Buildings |
6 | N DESC9106 |
Semester 2 |
| IDEA9106 Design Thinking |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| MARF5201 Honours Studio |
12 | P MARC4001 and MARC4002 and MARC4003 C MARF5301 N MARC5001 or MARC5002 or MARC5003 or MARC5004 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Students may incur materials costs in this unit. To qualify for honours equivalence in the MArch students must achieve a WAM of at least 80 in all units of study attempted. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARF5301 Honours Report |
6 | P 72 credit points with WAM of at least 80. C MARF5201 N ARCF5301 Note: Department permission required for enrolment To qualify for honours equivalence in the MArch students must achieve a WAM of at least 80 in all units attempted. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARC6102 3D Computer Design Modelling |
6 |
Enrolment numbers limited by teaching resources. If your attempt to enrol online is unsuccessful, please seek permission from the Student Administration Centre (SAC). |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MARC6202 Architecture Workshop A |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment This unit is offered only when a workshop has been arranged. When available, workshops are advertised to students. Students may incur materials costs in this unit. |
Intensive March Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| MARC6203 Architecture Workshop B |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment This unit is offered only when a workshop has been arranged. When available, workshops are advertised to students. Students may incur materials costs in this unit. |
Intensive March Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| MARC6204 Graduate Exhibition |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| ARCH9039 General Elective 1 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive February Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9040 General Elective 2 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9058 General Elective 7 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive February Intensive January Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9059 General Elective 8 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive January Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9085 General Elective 9 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9086 General Elective 10 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9087 General Elective 11 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |
| ARCH9088 General Elective 12 |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive April Intensive August Intensive July Intensive June Intensive March Intensive May Intensive November Intensive October Intensive September Semester 1 Semester 1a Semester 1b Semester 2 Semester 2a Semester 2b |