Bachelor of Architecture - Architecture

Offered as a first professional degree, the Bachelor of Architecture program provides an intense design education by developing each student's capacity to synthesize critical thought, artistic vision, and responsible leadership. With passionate professional faculty, diverse collaboration teams, emerging technologies and fabrication labs, and sensitivity to sustainable methods - together the University participate in shaping the physical world.

Undergraduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Conceptual Thinking and Process

• Communicate conceptual thinking verbally and in writing
• Articulate and extend conceptual thinking through diagrams
• Develop a rigorous material logic for model-making to test ideas
• Produce diagrams indicating critical analyses of relevant precedent buildings or the built environment recognizing the significance to the discipline of architecture
• Produce critical analyses of contemporary, historical, global precedents inclusive of buildings, urban planning, theoretical texts, or related arts applicable to studio projects and systems

Fundamental Design & Drawing and Making

• Develop criteria to generate and evaluate an architectural order and formal language
• Develop architectural proposals sensitive to the site context in scale and use based on research
• Produce architectural drawings with appropriate drawing conventions to convey spatial qualities and design intent
• Construct drawings and models with a high level of craft and attention to detail

Presentation Skills

• Clearly explain and defend design projects in verbal presentations
• Create presentation boards, slides, and/or printed materials which exhibit logical sequencing and a hierarchy of information
• Develop effective visual communication strategies to convey information that build towards an argument
• Determine appropriate representation techniques to describe the spatial qualities and human experience of the design proposal

Leadership and Community

• Demonstrate a commitment to community building and social equity through programming and organization of an architectural project
• Demonstrate sensitivity to diverse viewpoints of user groups in the design of a building

Integrated Design

• Conduct a user & programmatic analysis
• Communicate analyses of the urban and environmental conditions of a site with clear graphic devices

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