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Unit name Architecture Theory: Built Environments
Unit code KDA235
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Sciences and Engineering
School of Architecture and Design
Discipline Architecture & Design
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Learning Outcomes

ILO 1: Interrelate key political, cultural and social themes in relation to the production and inhabitation of the built environment.
ILO 2: Interpret historically and culturally situated ideas and objects through formal, spatial and material investigations.
ILO 3: Curate a selection of related and differentiated precedents within a focused design inquiry.

Contribution to Graduate Outcomes (Degree core knowledge)
Literacy: Students’ visual and written literacy is developed through precedent/pattern/symbol recognition and discussion (oral and textual and graphic); assessed via online discussion (AT1) and digital portfolio (AT3)

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Requisites

Prerequisites

KDA143 or KDA144

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

Lecture - 5 x 1-hr fortnightly, Workshop - 3-hr (3)

Assessment

AT1 – Debate (25%)
AT2 – Speculations: Interim Peer Presentation (35%)
AT3 – Portfolio (40%)

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