The Bachelor of Architecture is an intensive two-year studio-based program that develops professional and creative abilities in a context of contemporary theory and practice. Projects are used as the basis for learning, discussion and review. Some projects lead students through technical, administrative, planning or other specific aspects of practice, while others promote innovative approaches to design with a more open agenda. There is an opportunity for undertaking Honours. The program combines a global outlook with extensive use of case studies of Australian work. Teaching is by a combination of University staff and visiting practising professionals.

Students may choose to take a period of practical experience during the program. They may also take part of the program at an approved overseas university.

The academic program culminates in a major design project which permits students to demonstrate their acquired knowledge in the design and description of a project of significant complexity and scale.

• Bachelor of Architecture with Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
• Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
• Honours Degree of Bachelor of Architecture

To practise as an architect in Australia, candidates must have completed a professionally accredited degree in architecture. The Bachelor of Architecture academic program is recognised by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and accredited by the Architects Board of South Australia. A total of two year's practical experience after graduation and an examination by the Architects Board are prerequisites to registration as an architect. Career prospects are currently good in Australia and the South East Asian region, but architects, landscape architects and urban designers should be prepared to travel to develop their careers.

Knowledge

• Acquired knowledge and skills for exploration of creative process and ideas
• Acquired knowledge and skills sufficient for early stages of directed activity in an existing architectural practice, including ability to design and document projects
• Developed intellectual and creative approaches and adaptability to form a basis for continued learning and developmentthroughout professional life.

Intellectual and Social Capabilities

• Designing: the practice of architectural design, emphasising the pervasion of design from planning to detailing and the interrelationship of aesthetic, economic, environmental, legal, societal and individual reactions, and technical factors, and the nature of design as a group activity.
• Surveying: the principles of building measurement, documentation and land surveying.
• Communicating: the communication and documentation of designs for presentation to clients and other stakeholders, and for construction; the preparation of professional reports.
• Managing: the management and operation of an architectural practice.

Attitudes and Values

• The profession of architecture: ethics; environmental sustainability; cultural, social, economic and legal responsibilities of the profession of architecture.
• Architectural services: the recognition of situations where an architect can contribute, the formulation of appropriate strategies, and appropriate predesign, design, documentation, project management and post construction services processes in developing designs, including the development of a brief, and the outline, assessment and detailed design of proposals in conformity with codes and other requirements; the organisation, management and documentation associated with building construction and the administration of building contracts; the marketing of architectural services.

• The technology of architecture: building planning, construction, structure and services as they relate to new buildings and alterations to existing buildings.
• The architect in relation to other professions, organisations and the building industry: the relationship of architects to builders, structural and building services engineers, landscape architects, interior designers, urban designers, planners, and others involved in the creation of the built environment; the relationship of the profession of architecture to statutory authorities and to the building industry.
• Architecture and Landscape Architecture: the demonstration of the synergies between architecture and landscape architecture, urban design and master planning.

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