Architectural Design

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 4.13 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 4.13 k / Year(s) Deadline: May 31, 2025
301–350 place StudyQA ranking:4748 Duration:4 years

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This program is the first step to becoming an architect and helps you develop an understanding of architecture and provides a diverse set of skills and learning experiences. You will focus on learning the core skills required of an architect and architectural designer and intensively develop a broad grounding in design and communication skills.

RMIT Architecture and its graduates continue to achieve at the highest levels and are acknowledged by the national and international architectural profession.

Graduate Ton Vu was one of 10 students worldwide shortlisted for The Architectural Review’s “Global Architecture Graduate Awards“, and the only candidate to make the list from an Australian or New Zealand university.

M@ STUDIO Architects won the NGV’s 2016 Architecture Commission, which will be built in one of Melbourne’s great civic spaces, the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International.

The M@ STUDIO competition team consisted of co-directors Associate Professor Vivian Mitsogianni (Deputy Dean and Head of RMIT Architecture and Urban Design,) and Dean Boothroyd (RMIT architecture design tutor), Professor Mark Jacques (Professor of Architecture – Urbanism), RMIT architecture graduates Thomas Sheehan and Luke Tuckman, and current architecture students Kerry Kounnapis and Leona Dusanovic.

 

Year One of Program

Complete the following Six (6) Courses:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Architecture Design and Communication 24 ARCH1000 City Campus
Architecture Technology 1 12 ARCH1013 City Campus
Architecture History Introduction 12 ARCH1023 City Campus
Architecture Design Studio 2 24 ARCH1001 City Campus
Architecture Communications 2 12 ARCH1035 City Campus
Architecture Technology 2 12 ARCH1015 City Campus

AND

Year Two of Program

Complete the following Six (6) Courses:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Architecture Design Studio 3 24 ARCH1002 City Campus
Architecture Communications 3 12 ARCH1329 City Campus
Australian Architecture 12 ARCH1024 City Campus
Architecture Design Studio 4 24 ARCH1003 City Campus
Architecture Technology 3 12 ARCH1014 City Campus
History Western Architecture 20th Century 12 ARCH1026 City Campus

AND

Year Three of Program

Complete the following Four (4) Courses:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Architecture Design Studio 5 24 ARCH1004 City Campus
Architecture Technology 4 12 ARCH1016 City Campus
Architecture Design Studio 6 24 ARCH1006 City Campus
Architecture Portfolio and Communications 12 ARCH1036 City Campus

 

You must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 (or equivalent senior secondary school qualification).

Mid-year entry is available to applicants with advanced standing only. This means that you must have either:

• successfully completed at least one year of tertiary study in architecture, interior design, industrial design, landscape architecture, graphic design, art or fashion design

OR

• successfully completed the RMIT Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural).

Prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL.

Selection tasks

Semester 2, 2017

You must submit the following by 5pm Wednesday 31 May 2017 to the address below.

• a folio

• a CV

• a letter that outlines your reasons for applying for this program

Selection Officer, Bachelor of Architectural Design
School of Architecture and Design
RMIT University
PO Box 2476
Melbourne VIC 3001

If you are short-listed to attend a folio presentation this will take place in June 2017.

 

RMIT awards more than 2000 scholarships every year to recognise academic achievement and assist students from a variety of backgrounds. 

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