Architecture
An important consideration in designing the new Master of Architecture (MArch) Program has been to develop its potential as an agent of change for the profession. In order to produce graduates capable of meeting future challenges, the focus is on the core capabilities of creative thinking and design integration incorporating an understanding of the processes of problem solving.
Program Schedule
For information on the structure of the program and courses taught, please refer to the
UNSW Online Handbook.
Program Information
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.
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