Architecture

Designed for qualified graduates wishing to practice architecture at a professional level, the program draws its candidates from Sydney, Australia, the Pacific region and all over the world. It allows students increased flexibility and mobility in accredited university  education, and strengthens pathways to a global, professional career as an architect.

Taught by BE’s internationally recognised academics and renowned adjunct and visiting architects and professors, the focus of the MArch Program is to educate creative and effective graduates who will be architects capable of meeting the integrative challenges of local regional and international leadership in Built Environment design practice.

The program fosters a broad vision that equips graduates with a considered understanding of the cultural, social, environmental, political, business and development contexts in which architecture is designed, situated, debated and practised. . The program builds advanced knowledge and techniques in architectural design to cultivate approaches to realising creative design ideas and project excellence. Students are expected to actively integrate their theory, technology and elective course studies into design studio projects. 

Assessment within the program courses acknowledges these qualities through the extensive use of individual and group work initiated and developed projects. This approach advances disciplinary depth and complexity in Architecture mutually with situating this contribution in the broader disciplinary and practice Built Environment field.

The design studio project options offered in the first year provide students with course choices, while in the second year, the two semester graduation year studio experience provides students with the unique opportunity to engage in a comprehensive research and design experience at a deeper complex level. There are opportunities to develop specialisation through choosing elective course studies from other postgraduate disciplines within the FBE, summer semester courses, engagement in course projects that connect with local and international communities and undertake study exchange programs.

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For information on the structure of the degree and courses taught, please refer to the UNSW Postgraduate Handbook.