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Undergraduate TAS-KDA235-2022

Architecture Theory: Built Environments

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Duration

14 weeks

Study method

100% Online

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Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

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Australia’s fourth oldest university, the University of Tasmania, is highly regarded internationally for teaching and academic excellence. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and more than 50 postgraduate programs across a range of disciplines. The university offers students a diverse range of opportunities, the chance to learn from leading experts, and excellent preparation for their future careers.

QS RANKING 2022

18

Times Higher Education Ranking 2022

23

  • 2022

Subject details

What you'll learn

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to: 

  • Interrelate key political, cultural and social themes in relation to the production and inhabitation of the built environment.
  • Interpret historically and culturally-situated ideas and objects through formal, spatial and material investigations.
  • Curate a selection of related and differentiated precedents within a focused design inquiry.
Topics covered
    • Subject topics to be announced prior to commencement.
Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Description

Bachelor of Architecture and Built Environments Architecture Theory units focus on establishing and enhancing students’ capacity to think with clarity and rigour to ensure solid bases for research inquiry and design practice. At Intermediate level, these units provide foundational understandings of the history and lived spaces of architecture and built environments. This unit is part of a suite of four units in the degree core of B.ABE and the Spatial Design practice specialisation in the Bachelor of Design.

Architecture Theory: Built Environments explores key political, cultural and social themes and their relation to the production and inhabitation of the built environment. A series of thematic lectures introduces you to ideas and precedents in spatial design disciplines across a range of scales and a breadth of historical and cultural contexts. You will extend your understanding of histories and theories of the built environment through critical debate with peers and experts and focused inquiry into related and differentiated precedents along themes of personal interest. Based on your selected topic of inquiry, you will explore design implications through interpretation of ideas, objects and spatial environments in relation to your own field of disciplinary specialisation through formal, spatial and material investigations.

Assessments

  • Portfolio (40%)
  • Written Debates (25%)
  • Peer Presentation (35%)
Textbooks

Current study term: 20 Feb 22 to 29 May 22

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