Architecture

Master of Architecture

The MArch Program provides professional education in theory and practice of architecture. The Program provides students with advanced knowledge and techniques in architectural design and related technical and academic knowledge. It prepares students to work in architecture and other design-based industries, and to operate at a professional level in the practice of Architecture. It also allows students to tailor their studies towards specific interests through the large range of elective offerings they may take within UNSW Built Environment. The yearlong sequence of Research Studio and Major Design Studio, gives students the unique opportunity to engage in a comprehensive research and design experience at a much deeper level.

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

It prepares students to work in architecture and other design-based industries, and to operate at a professional level in the practice of Architecture. It also allows students to tailor their studies towards specific interests through the large range of elective offerings they may take within UNSW Built Environment. Post-Graduate architectural education must produce graduates capable of meeting future challenges. This will demand a broad education, which retains the virtues of design studios and their potential to foster creative problem solving and knowledge integration. There has been a view that the role of the education sector is to respond to the needs of practice. This new vision promotes the view that education can also be a major agent of change for the profession and can take a major role in re-positioning the profession in the twenty-first century. Architectural education at a professional level should be directed toward the development of vigorous, adaptive minds capable of accommodating rapid change. The focus should be on the core capabilities of creative thinking and design integration - an understanding of the processes of problem solving �and away from the product focus and encyclopedic learning of information. The focus should be on the context of knowledge and the relationship between knowledge in different domains. As the essence of an architectural education involves design integration, architecture courses should strive for integration of knowledge across domains thus linking the design solution to the method and context of procurement. This broader vision for architects requires that education programs equip graduates with a better understanding of the cultural, social, physical, political, business and economic contexts in which architecture is practiced and built environments are procured. Assessment within in the program acknowledges these qualities through the extensive use of individually initiated and developed projects.

The Master of Architecture is a focused, professional degree and is required to become a practising architect. It is the second of two degrees, undertaken after the successful completion of the Bachelor of Design in Architecture (C10004) or equivalent.

The course aims to produce graduates who are able to:

work collaboratively in local and international architectural practices of differing scale, structure and operation
be strategic and enterprising practice leaders
critically analyse, evaluate, question and engage in informed argument
communicate ideas effectively
extend knowledge and understanding through research skills and to transfer this creatively through the design process
put forward accurate and persuasive architectural proposals, and
apply ethical, environmental, cultural, aesthetic and technological considerations in architectural practice.

Why study this course?
This course is an innovative and flexible professional degree. Through a non-sequential structure, which allows students to select from a range of core and elective subjects, it gives students choice regarding their professional specialisation that will best serve them in their future careers. Architectural design subjects enhance a critical understanding of architecture as both a discipline with an existing body of knowledge and a set of practices that continuously challenge and add to that body of knowledge. Research is undertaken as a preliminary to design decision-making, during design and in reflection on design development. Architectural practice subjects prepare students for expanded practice in emerging media and markets, contemporary business practice and global economies and within challenging social, environmental, political and regulatory contexts. Students who complete a Master of Architecture and subsequent practical experience are eligible to become registered architects.

This specialist degree facilitates explorations of the relationship of architectural expression to the environment and the design of suitable settings in contrast or harmony with that expression. The degree is suitable for students with a background in architecture or landscape architecture and an interest in environmentally responsible design, sustainable land uses, ’eco-isms’, heritage architecture, green architecture and the care and protection of indigenous places and peoples.

The Master of Architecture (coursework) has replaced the Bachelor of Architecture as the professional degree in Architecture accredited in Australia (by the Australian Institute of Architects and the Architects Registration Board of WA) and validated internationally by the Commonwealth Association of Architects. The degree comprises an intensive program in design, technology, theory and professional practice, supported by a range of option units.

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