Program Overview

From the Opera House to the humble townhouse, Architects all over the world bring their passion for the environment (natural and built), aesthetics and cutting-edge design to life. UC's Bachelor of Built Environment (Architecture) will connect you with the skills and knowledge necessary to begin your journey towards becoming an architect in a rapidly changing globalised era.

Immerse yourself into an ever-evolving world where ideas are brought to life through design, creativity, digital imagination and technical realisation. Help shape the world around us and make an important contribution to the promotion of a more sustainable built environment.

Discover the power and possibility that comes from working in collaborative Architectural studios while exploring the history and theory, technology, digital production and communication methods embedded in this discipline. Plus, you’ll do so while learning from Canberra’s unique built environment, one of the most internationally recognised designed cities.

To practice as an accredited architect, you will need to graduate with a Bachelor of Built Environment and undertake UC’s Master of Architecture.

Study a Bachelor of the Built Environment (Architecture) at UC and you will:

• Develop an informed critique of architecture as both a creative and professional practice
• Understand the ethical responsibilities of the profession to society and the environment
• Formulate architectural design proposals underpinned by rigorous analysis, critique and reflection
• Apply a range of contemporary and agile skills that inform interpretive, compositional and technical outcomes.

Work Integrated Learning

Work Integrated Learning is embedded in this course, providing you with opportunities for direct industry engagement during each stage of your degree. A feature of the course includes engaging with leading design professionals and industry practitioners to gain valuable real-world architectural experience by delivering a series of ‘live’ projects. Internships at local, national and international architecture firms are also promoted.
 

Specialist Major: Architecture

The Architecture Course major offers a dynamic creative and technical program for students with an interest in architectural studies. Successful completion ensures the skills and knowledge necessary to practice in the built environment industry, and additionally provides the basis for direct entry into to the Master of Architecture program.

Underpinned by studies in design, history and theory, building technology and representation, the course presents a critical and analytical approach to the dialogue between architecture, site, program, and landscape. Material and tectonics are investigated, and form and space are explored within a diversity of cultural and environmental settings.

Interactive design studios form a core component of the degree. Starting with the elements of architecture, each subsequent design studio critically examines architecture's rapport with various aspects of nature, working towards architectural projects that intertwine the natural with the cultural realm. Particular emphasis is given to the formal and aesthetics of urban architecture and the semantics of civic work. Design studios are supported by historical and theoretical knowledge central to the transformation of design into a constructed form, material into materiality and tectonics. Various construction systems and issues relevant to the creation of a sustainable environment support and expand the scope of design work.

Of significance to the experience of the course major is the prioritisation of industry engagement through the delivery of 'live' projects, and participation of leading design professionals and industry practitioners.