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Postgraduate - Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework)
New in 2008
In line with international trends for architectural education and future professional requirements, RMIT University will offer a three year Bachelor of Architectural Design with a two year Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework) degree in 2008 to replace the current five year Bachelor of Architecture degree. The Master of Architecture will become the widely accepted professional qualification in architecture as a pathway to professional registration.
Students will still need to undertake five years of accredited architectural study and at RMIT. This will start with the three year Bachelor of Architectural Design. Graduates of this degree with a credit average (Grade point average 2.5) will automatically be selected for the Master of Architecture.
Two year professionally accredited Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework)
Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework) Program Guide and applying for entry
Program structure
The main focus of the Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework) 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 and other research and practice specialisations 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 ballot for a thematic design studio and tutor each semester. 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.
The design studios are vertically integrated and offer specialised topics that engage with a more complex design questions involving emerging practice and research concerns and a large scale of project.
History, communications and technology elective courses support the design studios along with elective courses in urban design and digital design research areas, fostering pathways into the Urban Architecture Laboratory and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (Opens in new window) research streams offered within the Master of Architectural Research and PhD in Architecture postgraduate research programs. Elective courses are also offered by other programs such as Landscape Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design.
The Master of Architecture (Professional Coursework) Program culminates in a final semester Major Project through which students are able to reflect upon, refine and demonstrate the knowledge they have gained in the program through the production of a substantial design or thesis project. There are public exhibitions of student work each semester and an annual exhibition and publication.
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 Coursework) degrees.
The Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (Opens in new window) 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 Coursework) 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 our students to study overseas and for international students to study Architecture at RMIT for one or two semesters.
Architecture international exchange and study abroad
International study tours and traveling design studios
RMIT Architecture offers international study tours that currently focus on Northern European modernist and contemporary design projects and urban contexts. Design studios that travel to other countries are regularly offered. Recent studios have traveled to Vietnam, Taiwan, France, the Netherlands and Japan.
Architecture international study tours, travelling studios and workshops