The Architectural Media courses in the BAS work with the premise that architectural thinking and making requires expertise with media. These courses are directed towards the development of architectural media practices that enable students to operate as critically engaged designers. The Architectural Media courses are closely aligned to design studio practice. The Architectural Media courses introduce and develop specific types of representation in order to work on concepts, evaluate architectural thinking, and describe and refine design projects.
In Architectural Media 2, students begin to work with scale, manipulate two and three dimensions, explore spatial and material conditions, engage with composition, creatively experiment with form, and present speculative designs. Understanding these representation types – both freehand and digital – and developing an ability to work with them is central to Architectural Media 2.
Students undertake weekly tasks, between Weeks 1-10, with the end of semester teaching focusing on the formation and curation of their portfolio assessment submission.
The aims of this course are: to help you develop your own media process (in other words, the means by which you arrive at design solutions); to develop the ability to explore, test ideas and find solutions by making (whether drawings or models); to think about a variety of spatial conditions and their connection with media explorations; to analyse and engage in a critical discourse of the work made in the course workshops/tutorials.