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RMIT BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 3 year professionally accredited undergraduate Architecture degree Note: This degree is followed by the 2 year RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional) degree » Applying for entry into the undergraduate RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design degree Course Structure RMIT offers a five year Architecture professionally accredited degree pathway made up of the 3 year Bachelor of Architectural Design degree followed by the 2 year Master of Architecture (Professional) degree. Students undertake dedicated study in the discipline of architecture from the outset. The main focus of the Bachelor of Architectural Design degree at each semester level is the design studio, in which students investigate architecture through design, integrating the knowledge gained in history, communications and technology into a total design project. The Architecture program at RMIT is differentiated from other architecture degrees by the design studio structure and selection process. Students in semesters 2-5 are grouped into a vertically integrated Lower Pool Design Studio cohort. They ballot for a thematic design studio and tutor each semester from around 14 studio offerings. Staff student ratios arekept at around 1:14. The range of studio topics reflects a diversity of architectural practice and design research. Tutors are drawn from the RMIT Architecture program and visiting academics, and from innovative practices in Melbourne. During the sixth semester, a portfolio course provides a critical reflection on your emerging body of design work. The design studios in semester six is vertically integrated with the Master of Architecture (Professional) degree and are more specialised and engage with a more complex design questions involving emerging practice and research concerns and a larger scale of projects. History, communications and technology courses support the lower-level design studios along with Design Electives that allow for a range of study options relating to these course areas as well as introductory elective courses in urban design and digital design research areas, fostering pathways into the Urban Architecture Laboratory and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory streams offered within the Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework). Elective courses are also offered by other programs such as Landscape Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design, and students are free to enrol in Student Electives offered by disciplines across the university. There are public exhibitions of student work at the end of each semester to celebrate the work undertaken by students across the design studios offered by the program. Program Features The Urban Architecture Laboratory undertakes urban architectural research, and postgraduate research supervision, and offers urban architecture elective and design studio teaching courses in the Bachelor of Architectural Design and the Master of Architecture (Professional) degrees. The Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory undertakes architectural research on the application of digital technologies, and offers postgraduate research supervision, and Spatial Information Architecture elective and design studio teaching courses in the Bachelor of Architectural Design and the Master of Architecture (Professional) degrees. International Linkages Rmit Architecture is committed to engaging with and contributing to emerging architectural practices, research and debate in an international context. The program features regular international visiting academics and practitioners who offer public lectures, design studio and research workshops, seminars and act as postgraduate examiners and critics. Exchange RMIT Architecture maintains an exchange program with other leading architecture schools around the world, enabling RMIT Architecture students to study overseas and for international students to study Architecture at RMIT for one or two semesters. » RMIT Architecture Exchange information » RMIT Architecture students going on Exchange overseas information for RMIT students applying to study on exchange at an Architecture School overseas. » Exchange and Study Abroad - Information for RMIT Students applying to study overseas information for International Study Abroad and Exchange students applying to study at RMIT. International Study Tours The Architecture Program offers international study tours that currently focus on Northern European modernist and contemporary design projects and urban contexts. » ASA/RMIT International Architecture & Urban Design Study Tour, 2008 Contemporary and Modernist European Architecture & Urban Design Destinations: Finland; the Netherlands; London, UK Tour Leader: Stuart Harrison » International travelling design studios RMIT Architecture regularly offers design studios that travel to other countries. Recent studios have travelled to Vietnam, Taiwan, Mexico, France, the Netherlands, Japan, USA, Austria and China. | ||||||||
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