UNSW Built Environment courses nimble by necessity
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The Australian Graduate School of Urbanism and the Australian School of Architecture + Design at UNSW Built Environment are adapting their postgraduate degree programs to keep pace with changes in industry.
Professor Bruce Judd, director of the Australian School of Architecture + Design (ASA + D), says the university is “nimble, responding to the current needs of the professions”.
Postgraduate courses within the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism (AGSU) and ASA + D are evolving to respond to the key drivers affecting property development, design and planning. Courses are designed to encourage students from different disciplines to work together, as they would in industry.
They are also changing to accommodate the rapid shift in information technology, the increasing focus on environmental sustainability and the trend towards globalisation by giving students a broader world view, Professor Judd says.
“There is an increasing need to integrate the ideas of technology, sustainability and design together,” he adds. “Cities are incredibly complex machines. Before too long we’ll have robots building buildings.
“The digitisation of everything is just astounding. We need to constantly change and update our curricula.”
AGSU offers postgraduate degrees in the sustainable built environment, urban development and design, and urban policy and strategy. It also offers research degrees in specialised streams, including housing policy and finance, writing the city, infrastructure planning, procurement and finance, and design research.
ASA + D offers postgraduate degrees in architecture, planning, construction project management, and property and development.
Students graduate with a broader view across interconnected disciplines – such as policy and planning, design and architecture, and development and funding – and better understand how these disciplines work together to create and complete projects.
“The courses will evolve in response to the needs of the industry,” Professor Judd says. “Because the courses are professionally accredited they have a strong relationship with industry.”
For more information visit: http://www.be.unsw.edu.au/postgrad/about