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BDES3025: Architectural Professional Practice
2024 unit information
Architectural Professional Practice introduces students in the final semester of their undergraduate degree to the professional practice of architecture, focusing on design development within regulatory and practice management frameworks. Students are introduced to the fundamental principles of key regulatory requirements and critically deploy their understandings by investigating local practice case studies. They further develop a capacity to apply their knowledge in a particular context through an architectural design project that they take to Development Application level using current best practice.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Architecture
| Code | BDES3025 |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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BDES3023 or BDES3026 or BDES3616 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the diverse process of professional practice through rich and complex examples that extent your knowledge from the studio based design program
- LO2. understand the continuum of design and innovation throughout the architectural process from conception to completion
- LO3. develop an understanding of and skills to deal with, the various and complex scenarios and situations you will negotiate within architecture as practitioners
- LO4. develop a greater understanding of the role of the architect as a communicator, negotiator and mediator in realising a design
- LO5. understand the social, environmental and ethical responsibilities of the architect
- LO6. develop an understanding of what happens as a practitioner, and how an architect develops a language, a voice of autonomy and a sense of design as a business and a mode of professional practice
- LO7. understand the technical documentation and bureaucratic processes/regulations surrounding design as an important contributor to innovation and the design of architectural spaces.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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