University of Melbourne

Master of Architecture

Architecture is a creative and exciting design-based profession concerned with virtually all aspects of the built environment. It combines art, science and technology with business, social and environmental concerns. The Master of Architecture is a professional program which prepares graduates for employment as architects.

In the Master of Architecture you will gain:

• Cutting-edge skills to help advance built environment design
• Grounding in architectural history, theory and technology so you create innovative architecture, relevant to time and place, people and culture
• Highly developed skills to manage an architectural practice and lead or work within cross-discipline project teams
• A sustainable outlook with the ability to use new materials and technologies to create environmentally sustainable buildings
• The Master of Architecture offers you flexibility so you can take a two-year program if you already have a three-year undergraduate degree in Architecture or the three-year program if your first degree is not in architecture and you are making a career change.

With over thirty full-time academics and a broad range of leading architectural practitioners, the program has a depth and breadth of teaching and research performance unmatched within the Southeast-Asian and Australasian regions. Graduates will be equipped with the creative and critical thinking skills to push the envelope of architectural change in terms of the design and production of buildings as well as critique of their technical, aesthetic, social and environmental performance.

The ethos of the program emphasises the central role of design in the studio. Students can take a research subject which may enable progression to further studies as a PhD candidate.