Stage One courses
2025
Updated September 2024
In the first year of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies, students must take:
Semester One:
- BLTENV 101
- BLTENV 102
- BLTENV 103
- WTRENG 100
Semester Two:
- ARCHHTC 102
- ARCHDES 103
- ARCHDRC 104
- General Education course, or an AELR course if you are required to take one (ACADENG 100 or 101 recommended)
If you have any questions, contact the Student Hubs.
Architectural Design
ARCHDES 103 - Design 2
- Course Prescription: The Formal: An introduction, in studio format, to the discipline of architectural organisation and form-making. Re-examines the traditional notions of typology, precedent, geometry, parti and diagrams. Emphasises strategies that build on and transform understanding for organising form given contemporary programmes and modes of representation.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Programme restriction: BAS
- Points: 15
Architectural Media and Fabrication
ARCHDRC 104 - Architectural Media 2
- Course Prescription: Examines specific types of representation – both freehand and digital – used in architectural media to develop concepts, evaluate architectural thinking and describe and refine design projects.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Programme restriction: BAS
- Points: 15
Architectural History, Theory and Criticism
ARCHHTC 102 - Modern Architecture and Urbanism
- Course Prescription: Examines through case studies the cultural contexts that shaped the development of architecture, urban design, landscape and the environment during the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the historical developments that influenced changes in style and the theoretical contexts that shaped attitudes towards inhabitation, social organisation, national identity, and cultural self-expression, amongst other things.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Note: Available for BGlobalSt - Transnational Cultures and Creative Practice students
- Points: 15
Built Environment
BLTENV 101 - People, Place and Design Studio
- Course Prescription: Introduces the conceptual and material domains in which architecture and urban planning operate, making connections to the cultural, physical, formal, social and political dimensions of design in the built environment, emphasising the development of skills and abilities in conceptual thinking, design realisation and representation.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: BAS, BUrbPlan(Hons)
- Points: 15
BLTENV 102 - Environmental and Social Justice
- Course Prescription: Focuses on developing an ethical understanding of the built environment through the lens of social and environmental justice in order to plan and design fairer habitats and a critical assessment of social and environmental crises through urban and architectural case studies to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to more sustainable and equitable built environments.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: BAS, BUrbPlan(Hons)
- Points: 15
BLTENV 103 - Media for Spatial Practices
- Course Prescription: Introduces media processes and methods for spatial practices and designed environments to support design studio practice and an overview of the analytical and critical values of these techniques for design.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: BAS, BUrbPlan(Hons)
- Points: 15