Handbook

The Graduation Studio in the Master of Architecture Program is run over two terms. The first term is the
Research Studio where students develop the intellectual inquiry and research that defines their project,
along with their initial architectural proposals. The second term accommodates the Major Design Studio
where students develop this into a comprehensively resolved architecture project.
In the Major Design Studio, students continue in their Research Studio group to create rigorous and
compelling architecture. Each studio explicitly supports the detailed design development of individual
architectural proposals as realised through appropriate modes of architectural representation. Emphasis is
placed on development of the architectural proposition through critique and testing. The developed design
will reach an ambitious level of programmatic, spatial, material, environmental and technological integration
and resolution, with an ambitious and imaginative level of experimentation. Students will evaluate and
develop architectural representation styles and techniques to establish the most effective methods to
communicate their work. Presentation to peers, eminent critics and practitioners occurs through studio
reviews and a public graduation exhibition.