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Master of Architecture Studio C (ABPL90142)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au
Senior Tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au
Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au
Senior tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au
Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au
Senior tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Summer Term Semester 1 (Early-Start) Semester 2 (Early-Start) |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This studio emphasises how successful architectural designs express ideas based in well-grounded, critical thinking, and on values manifest in visions of desired futures. Through design projects and analysis of seminal works, students will develop both design ideas for projects and architectural expressions of those ideas. Autonomous studio options will cover a range of project types including housing, public institutions and urban design, taught with an emphasis on architecture as idea, materiality or program.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Successfully create and resolve the design of a building of medium complexity
- Evaluate results of their work in relation to the environmental and social context and their chosen intellectual traditions
- Communicate a complex design vision in a clear and professional manner.
Generic skills
- An understanding of ethical responses to issues.
- Identification of emerging trends in practice.
- Visual and oral presentation techniques.
- Three-dimensional representation.
- Critical thinking and analysis.
- Capacity for independent thought and reflection.
- Creative response to complex problems.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into one of the following courses:
MC-ARCH Master of Architecture (200 points)
OR
MC-ARCH Master of Architecture (300 point, entry point)
MC-ARCH3Y Master of Architecture (300 points)
plus all of the following subjects:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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ABPL90284 | Master of Architecture Studio A | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
ABPL90285 | Master of Architecture Studio B | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
ABPL90286 | Construction Methods A | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
ABPL90287 | Architectural Technology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90288 | Architectural Cultures 1: Modernism | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90289 | Architectural Cultures 2:After Modernism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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A mid-semester jury review (critique) oral presentation equivalent to 100 hours of work demonstrating design output that may include physical models, drawings, written assignments, site analyses, journals and sketches.
| Mid semester | 30% |
An end of semester jury review (critique) oral presentation equivalent to 240 hours of work building on work developed throughout the semester demonstrating design output that may include physical models, drawings, written assignments, site analyses and sketches.
| End of semester | 70% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend 75% of studios and pass the end of semester final oral presentation. | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Donald Bates Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours up to 84 hours including lecture class and Studios Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 6 January 2020 to 21 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 9 December 2019 Census date 17 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 February 2020 Assessment period ends 21 February 2020 Summer Term contact information
Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au
Senior Tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Donald Bates Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours up to 84 hours including lecture class and Studios Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 28 February 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 6 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information
Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au
Senior tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Donald Bates Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours up to 84 hours including lecture class and Studios Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 31 July 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information
Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au
Senior tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
340 hours
Additional delivery details
An enrolment quota of 96 applies to the Summer Term intensive. This quota applies to the combined enrolments in ABPL90142, ABPL90143 and ABPL90115.
Students will be selected into the subject as they self-enrol during the timely re-enrolment period. If the enrolment quota is exceeded, availability of additional places will be up to the Subject Coordinator’s discretion.
Any students enrolling after the quota has been reached will be withdrawn from the subject and advised of the alternative subjects available.
For detailed information on the quota subject application process and due dates, refer to the EDSC Quota Subjects webpage.
Studio class allocation process is done via a ballot, for further information please refer to the MSD Studios webpage
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Architectural Engineering Course Master of Architecture Course Master of Architecture - Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022