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The Undergraduate Certificate in Architecture will enable entry (and credit for the four subjects completed) into the Bachelor of Applied Science (Architectural Science) degree at Curtin.
Explore how architecture relates to culture and daily life. Study building design and construction, and express architectural ideas via reports, models and multimedia

Study 4 core subjects in architecture design, methods, and technology—and get entry and credit in Curtin’s Bachelor Degree. Explore connections between architecture and everyday life. Be introduced to international standards and indigenous perspectives.

Undergraduate Certificate in Architecture

This degree is the prerequisite for entry into the Master of Architecture. The degree covers the design of buildings, the technical aspects of building construction, and how architecture relates to societies, cultures and people and the way they live. Architectural ideas are communicated through written and spoken reports, photographs, drawings, models and the electronic media. Students not intending to continue on to the Master may use the knowledge gained in this degree to seek employment within the architectural profession or building industry.Software Requirements — Students will require access to the following software: Photoshop, AutoCAD and Rhino. Details on accessing AutoCAD and Rhino will be provided in due degree at the commencement of relevant subjects (please note this software is free for student use). The student will be responsible for organising access to Photoshop, although Curtin can offer student discount rates.Related DegreesThis degree sits within a group of degrees:<ul><li><a href="https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-applied-science-architectural-science-curtin-university-cur-bas-deg" target="_blank">Bachelor of Applied Science (Architectural Science)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/master-of-architecture-curtin-university-cur-maa-mas" target="_blank">Master of Architecture</a></li></ul>

Enter an industry where initiative, creativity and critical awareness are valued. Explore how architecture relates to culture and daily life. Study building design and construction, and express architectural ideas via reports, models and multimedia.

Bachelor of Applied Science (Architectural Science)

Study Construction Management On Demand with UniSA Online and take full control over your study. Access support seven days a week, plan your study to fit around life, view learning resources 24/7, and log into the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device.
This 100% online construction management degree is your gateway to career opportunities in the low rise residential and light commercial buildings sector of the construction industry.
This degree has been developed in consultation with industry accrediting bodies, including: Australian Institute of Building (AIB), Australian Institute of Building Surveyors (AIBS), Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Construct a solid career foundation studying the built environment. Learn to build low rise residential and light commercial buildings. Craft surveying, planning and management skills. Connect with the construction business and join industry networks.

Bachelor of Construction Management

The Undergraduate Certificate in Construction Management provides an introduction to knowledge and skills required in the construction industry and gives the student entry (and credit for the four subjects completed) into the Bachelor of Applied Science (Construction Management) degree at Curtin. This course leads to opportunities in construction in roles within project management, quantity or building surveying, estimator or contract administrator among others.

Study 4 core subjects in construction management—and get entry and credit in Curtin’s Bachelor Degree. Study low-rise and high-rise construction, including how to manage sites. Start thinking about your career in estimating, contract admin and more.

Undergraduate Certificate in Construction Management

The Diploma of Construction Management offers an opportunity for people working in building and civil construction to upskill and seize the opportunities arising from Australia’s significant housing and infrastructure projects pipeline.The program is suited to people who have relevant construction industry experience and are looking to upskill into roles with additional functional requirements and higher levels of responsibility. The program is also suited to employees within city councils and government, utilities, and engineering and architectural firms who are looking to develop professional skills in construction project management.

Developed with industry, this course is designed to prepare you for roles such as site supervisor, contract administrator, project management associate and estimating associate.

Diploma of Construction Management

Interior designers work to ensure quality environments for a diverse range of users and functions. The Higher Education Certificate Interior Design prepares students in the world of design and leads students into the Bachelor of Applied Science (Interior Architecture).

Study 4 core subjects in interior design, history and methods—and get entry and credit in Curtin’s Bachelor Degree. Dabble in designing interior spaces. Strive for quality interior environments. Explore the role of the interior architect.

Undergraduate Certificate in Interior Design

Throughout the course, you will explore various design processes and learn about materials and finishes while also developing skills in residential and commercial design. Together with other students in the Design Studio subject, you’ll learn about the principles and trends of interior design and how they fit into the design process, you’ll explore issues of sustainability, and discover ways to design appropriately for a range of clients. You will test-run various design processes and collaborate on exciting projects based in the real world. The design work you produce throughout the interior design diploma will contribute to your professional portfolio – to help you land serious work in this ever-exciting, always evolving creative industry.Tailor your study to your lifestyle thanks to our innovative digital learning system, accessible from anywhere with 24/7 personalised support. With all your course materials online, and the option to study full or part time, on-campus, online or a blend of both it&#39;s all about flexibility.

Learn popular software like SketchUp Pro and AutoCAD in this DIA-recognised course. You’ll learn about materials and finishes. Explore design processes. Build skills for both residential and commercial design and start thinking about your designer career.

Diploma of Interior Design and Decoration

This degree progresses the learning of our Bachelor of Applied Science (Architectural Science) providing a further two years of advanced studies in design project work, architectural history, theory and research, management, law and professional practice.Students are involved in advanced design projects, analysing urban contexts and considering urban design and place making. Students will also develop research knowledge and skills before completing their own individual dissertation in architectural design.

Advance your studies in architectural history, theory, research, management, law and professional practice. Study design projects and analyse urban design and place making. An individual dissertation in architectural design is required.

Master of Architecture

Urban and regional planning is about improving the quality of cities and regions. Professional planners assist communities, companies and governments to integrate the environmental, economic and social aspects of development from small sites up to whole regions. Planning deals with strategic work (long-range planning) as well as structural and statutory components in relation to built and natural environments and the legislative framework controlling land use. Accordingly, planning is closely allied with commerce, government, sociology, communities and the ecology disciplines.The Graduate Certificate is designed for recent graduates in any field, and for established professionals who wish to extend their skills and expertise. It will also help provide a preparation for entry into a masters program.

Develop the skills to make environmentally, socially and economically sustainable planning decisions. You’ll learn from some of Australia’s leading planning practitioners. Graduate job-ready for planning roles or keep studying for your masters.

Graduate Certificate in Urban and Regional Planning

The program offers a balance of theory, technology, and creative experimentation. Theoretical aspects of design are combined with technical knowledge of building systems, materials, interior construction, and communication techniques. Work Integrated Learning is embedded throughout the course with relevant practical work and professional experience to fulfil course requirements. The program is taught by active research and practice professionals, ensuring the program is relevant to local and global market conditions. Interior Design at Curtin contributes to the University&#39;s links with industry bodies and professional organisations.﻿Bachelor Degrees prepare students to develop broad and coherent knowledge and skills in a discipline for professional work and further learning corresponding to AQF level 7 qualifications.

Build expertise and professional skills in interior design. You'll explore design concepts and use technology to bring your ideas to life. An accredited design degree that prepares you for careers in home design, hotels, offices and more.

Bachelor of Interior Design

Construction Project Management

Contract Administration

Introduction to Management in Construction

Introduction to Contract Administration

Construction 1

Advanced Contract Administration

Structures 2

Introduction to Sustainable Design for Houses

Sustainability and Structures in Architecture

Structures

This subject aims to develop an awareness of environmental and human health impacts of housing in order to inform critical and creative decision-making in the design and renovation of houses. You will explore how housing affects our own health and the health of the planet, and how sustainable design can reduce environmental impacts and improve wellbeing. You will also learn how to make design choices that are more sustainable in relation to your personal needs and circumstances. The subject will emphasise reflective thinking, practical knowledge and an integrated approach that relates issues of sustainability to quality design, functionality and value.

Design and renovate healthy and sustainable homes. You’ll unpack what sustainability means for dwellings. Look into designing for health and climate. Exercise your creativity. Get to know sustainable products and building materials.

This subject was previously known as Residential Construction.
In this subject students will be introduced to the types, components and practices of low-rise domestic construction. In this overview of basic constructional materials used in domestic construction students will apply aspects of applied science to relevant building types by examining the properties of matter, wave motion, heat, light and sound). Students will also evaluate solar effects on buildings. Fieldwork is a component of this subject.
Please Note:  If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Stake out designs in domestic construction. You’ll study structure, materials, tools and methods to build houses from foundation to finish. Consider how structural design controls heat and light effects; ventilation, acoustics and air flow and quality. 

Low Rise Construction

This subject was previously known as Technology of Design.This subject is an introduction to architectural technologies including structural systems and principles, building materials, construction techniques and environmental design and decarbonisation concerns in buildings. The work integrated learning is through understanding the relationship between technology and the formal language of design in architecture.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Explore the bond between the built, natural and human environment in design. Learn the relationship between structure and technology. Uncover how floor and wall structures and materials impact and transform heating, lighting and acoustic function.

This subject was previously known as Architectural Design and Technical Integration Methods.
This subject focuses on application of advanced visual, oral and written techniques required to communicate design ideation and resolved architectural proposition and body of architectural work. The work conducted in this subject supplements the work concurrently being developed in other subjects.
Work Integrated Learning is incorporated developing practice standard presentation and communication skills, culminating in a professional portfolio.
This subject has BAS300 Architecture Design 5 and BAS305 Architecture Methods 5 as mandatory prerequisites. If you have completed BAS300 prior to 2015, you are not required to enrol into BAS305 as BAS300 was previously counted as double subject. Please get a prerequisite waiver from Curtin to proceed with enrolment in BAS335.
Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Secure advanced visual, oral and written techniques to articulate design ideas. Use strategies and methods to transform concepts into firm design proposals. Draw on your prior study and use design presentation and communications skills in real settings. 

Architecture Methods 6

This subject was previously known as Architecture Design 2.This subject explores the sense of place and the notion of inhabitation. It explores the built environment as a representation of collective values, investigates the relationship between ideas, human body and built form, and develops an understanding of primary components of space, form, structure and materials. It refers to and uses communication methods taught concurrently in other subjects. This subject requires students to create new structures for inhabitation at a personal scale that engage well with a given landscape, including solar, wind and sound. Work Integrated Learning is incorporated through the design of projects on a real site.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Build on your understanding of the primary architectural components: space, form, structure and materials. Engage in a reflective and iterative design process to create a new living space that reflects your ideas and complements its surroundings.

Architecture and Interior Architecture Design Studio 1 - Small Structures

This subject was previously known as Architectural Technology in Context.This subject acknowledges regional, national and international environmental responsibilities by introducing students to principles of environmental design and decarbonisation. It explores relationships between climate and design using passive techniques that influence the thermal, lighting and acoustic performance of small scale buildings in the local context. Work integrated learning is incorporated through understanding the impact of buildings&#39; performance on social and environmental responsibility.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Unearth national and global environmental parameters impacting architectural decisions. Explore bonds linking climate with design, form and function. Consider structure, materials and construction methods of small-scale builds in local settings. 

Architectural Science in Context

This subject was previously known as BIA270 Interior Architecture Contexts.This interdisciplinary subject explores and debates significant art and design movements across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the broader context of significant world events affecting social, political, technological, and economical developments, including indigenous perspectives. The effects of these movements on the shaping and making of the interior is considered at both local and international levels, in particular by deconstructing key methods and processes of design practice.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Travel back through the artistic and design movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Be inspired by the Bauhaus design aesthetic, Gordon Matta-Clark’s work and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Trace their influence through to today’s work.

History of the Interior

This subject was previously known as Architecture, Theory and Critique.This subject offers students various movements such as arts and crafts, modern, post-modern and contemporary approaches within architecture, concentrating on the social, cultural and countercultural concepts that impact the urban environment. It concentrates on a broad range of theoretical strategies of thought, design and critical analysis for use in architectural contexts and current practice.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Gain an overview of the influences of modern, post-modern and post-structuralist intellectual movements on architecture. Consider and critique the cultural, historic, social, political and philosophical ties that inspired urban environment design. 

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Architectural Theories

This subject was previously known as Architecture Methods 2.This subject develops an understanding of architectural design processes through an introduction to 2D CAD and architectural drawing conventions and visual literacy. Modelling, diagramming, digital collage and photography will be used for 2D and 3D architectural representation and visual communication of space, form, structure and material.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Discover the intricacies and challenges of creating a representation of space, form and structure. Use techniques including rendering, digital collage and hand-drawing. Put your design process into practice with Work Integrated Learning.

Architecture and Interior Architecture Methods 1B - Digital Literacy

This subject was previously known as BAS130 Understanding Architecture.This subject is an introduction to broad themes and histories in World Architecture that underlie the design and production of architecture and the built environment. Architectural ideas and concepts are explored through lectures, tutorials and site visits referencing real-world examples that are carefully considered and documented through, reading, writing and drawing along with other media production.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Draw on themes inspiring the meaning, expression and symbol of architectural design that defines how people live, work and play.
Delve into theories, texts and examples of global and national works. Visit sites and document your observations.

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