Course Title: Architecture Portfolio and Communications

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Architecture Portfolio and Communications

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

ARCH1036

City Campus

Undergraduate

315H Architecture & Design

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2006,
Sem 2 2008,
Sem 1 2009,
Sem 2 2009,
Sem 1 2010,
Sem 2 2010,
Sem 1 2011,
Sem 2 2011,
Sem 1 2012,
Sem 2 2012,
Sem 1 2013,
Sem 2 2013

ARCH1036

City Campus

Undergraduate

320H Architecture & Urban Design

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2014,
Sem 2 2014,
Summer2015,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 2 2015,
Sem 1 2016,
Sem 2 2016,
Sem 1 2017,
Sem 2 2017,
Sem 1 2018,
Sem 2 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 2 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 2 2020,
Sem 1 2022,
Sem 2 2022,
Sem 1 2023,
Sem 2 2023,
Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: Michael Spooner

Course Coordinator Phone: Contact via email

Course Coordinator Email: michael.spooner@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 100.09.02

Course Coordinator Availability: email for an appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities


You should have satisfactorily completed the prerequisite courses ARCH1004 Architecture Design Studio 5 and ARCH1026 Architecture History 20th Century before you commence this course.


Course Description

In Portfolio you will reflect on the formative characteristics of your emerging design domain. This domain is informed by your spatial histories,  the cultural and social context of the architecture discipline introduced to your through your education, and your activities as a designer confront diverse ideas.  

The course will require you to observe the composition and application of your authorship in the design studio, history, technology, and communications courses. This exploration will be carried out through a continuous program of inquiry and reflection. You will be required to acknowledge the concepts, methods, and processes you have been introduced to, imitated, critiqued, and demonstrated knowledge of through your behaviour as a designer. You will examine the diverse outcomes of your design behaviours and through reflection illuminate the motivations, themes, and propositions that underpin them, and emphasise the tools and techniques you have employed to achieve them.  

What you discover will distinguish the foundations of a practice that can be consciously pursued through the remainder of your study and form a platform for future practice. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

  • Apply design knowledge to solve a range of architectural problems in diverse contexts.
  • Critically analyse, evaluate and make informed judgement on a wide range of architectural problems and situations.
  • Demonstrate and articulate design skills from concept formation through to design development.
  • Integrate a body of practical and theoretical knowledge into your design process.
  • Comprehend key architectural works, cultural movements and ideas, their theoretical and cultural context and relevance to design.
  • Communicate complex design ideas through verbal, visual and written media.
  • Reflect upon your learning acheivements in design, taking repsonsibility for your future design direction and continued learning.
  • Develop an awareness of environmental factors affecting the built environment.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 

  1. Display proficiencies and skills, and understanding of work undertaken in design studio, communications, history and technology courses. 
  2. Locate your design work in relation to a wider context of architectural issues and a community of practitioners.  
  3. Make a self-assessment of your architecture design studio work. 
  4. Determine a future direction of your design practice. 
  5. Evaluate your position on sustainability in the practice of architecture. 


Overview of Learning Activities

Learning is an interactive and participatory process involving both tutors and students.  

The academic and professional integrity of the course is established through the studio teaching model. The mode of learning in the studio is primarily through ’practice and doing’. The characteristic of this mode of teaching is the experience of regularly verbally presenting, discussing, and explaining your work in a formal critique process. The conclusions you make will undergo a continuous cycle of review and reflection with your tutors and between your student peers.  A successful assessment is realised by your response to the discourse of the tutorial and individual feedback.  

The course assessments will require you to demonstrate that you can consciously determine a direction for your work and assume responsibility for your continuing education. 


Overview of Learning Resources

The studio leaders will provide you with specific semester syllabus in class and related texts or reference material. 

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

The University Library has extensive resources for architecture students. The library has produced a subject guide that includes quality online and print resources for your studies: http://rmit.libguides.com/architecture 

The library provides guides on academic referencing http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing 


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program capabilities. You will receive formative assessment and feedback on a weekly basis from your tutor. Summative assessments will include the verbal and visual presentation of work that reflects the course requirements. 

A single final assessment grade is determined for this subject by consolidating the provisional grades for below assessment tasks. The final grade is based on holistic assessment of how well you meet all the course learning outcomes. 

Assessment Tasks 

Assessment Task 1: Presentation 1, 50%, CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO4, & CLO5. 

Assessment Task 2: Presentation 2, 50%, CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO4, & CLO5. 

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/policies/assessment-policy 

 The Student Charter provides an overview of key responsibilities of RMIT Staff and Students to ensure a successful experience of university life. www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-education/supporting-learning-and-teaching/student-charter/