Introduction
Bachelor of Architecture and Built Environments Architecture Theory units focus on establishing and enhancing students’ capacity to think with clarity and rigour to ensure solid bases for research inquiry and design practice. At Advanced level, the units concentrate on building understandings of and attitudes towards the present and forecasted futures of Architecture and your role in the field and profession.
In Architecture Theory: Practice Contexts you will interrogate the value of contemporary theories and use these positions to develop a critical spatial practice. You will explore approaches to Architecture that understand, reference and question the specificities of social, cultural and political and ecological operations within local and global contexts. Through lecture content, discussion of theoretical texts and critical interrogation of precedents, you will gain a broad knowledge of contemporary themes in Architecture. Working in teams on a specified topic, you will research, interrogate and explore the formal, material and spatial implications of particular theories employing participatory practices in the creation of speculative design propositions.
Summary 2021
| Unit name | Architecture Theory: Contemporary Contexts |
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| Unit code | KDA338 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Sciences and Engineering School of Architecture and Design |
| Discipline | Architecture & Design |
| Coordinator | Andrew Steen |
| Level | Advanced |
| Available as student elective? | No |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
1 | Critically evaluate contemporary theories and implications for interdisciplinary design practice |
2 | Articulate connections between design and social, political, cultural and ecological factors at local and global scales. |
3 | Explore and articulate formal, material and spatial implications of design theories through models and mixed media |
4 | Participate and co-create with peers in speculative design inquiries |
Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
KDA235 and KDA241
Co-requisites
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | 1 x 180 minute Studio weekly |
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| Assessment | AT1 – Debate (20%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | None |
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