2013 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN TE WāhanGA WAIHANGA-HOAHOA Contents Introduction ...............................................3 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN School of Architecture ..................................... 4 Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa Undergraduate overview. 6 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro Campus, Wellington 6011 Postgraduate overview ..................................7 Phone 04-463 6200 First Light: New Zealand’s entry to the Solar Decathlon ...11 Fax 04-463 6204 Architecture . 13 Email [email protected] Architecture History and Theory. .21 [email protected] Interior Architecture ..................................29 Websites www.victoria.ac.nz/fad Landscape Architecture ................................37 www.victoria.ac.nz/architecture Bachelor of Building Science ...........................45 www.victoria.ac.nz/design Project Management ..................................49 Important notice Sustainable Engineering Systems ....................... 55 Victoria University uses all reasonable skill and care to ensure School of Design .........................................62 the information contained in this document is accurate at Undergraduate overview. 64 the time of being made available. However, matters covered Postgraduate overview ................................66 by this document are subject to change due to a continuous Master’s students on a mission .........................69 process of review, and to unanticipated circumstances. The First-year Design .......................................71 University therefore reserves the right to make any changes Culture+Context .......................................73 without notice. So far as the law permits, the University accepts Industrial Design. 83 no responsibility for any loss suffered by any person due to Fabricating futures. .89 reliance (either whole or in part) on the information contained Media Design ..........................................91 in this document, whether direct or indirect, and whether MDI with Computer Graphics specialisation .............99 foreseeable or not. Te Rōpū Āwhina: the whānau experience .................. 107 Services and facilities ....................................114 Important dates Victoria Overseas Exchange (Vic OE) ......................117 To find lists of important dates, including enrolment deadlines, Scholarships ............................................119 accommodation, scholarships and deadlines for international Admission. 121 student dates, visit the following websites: Publications. 121 www.victoria.ac.nz/home/study/dates.aspx Careers .................................................121 www.victoria.ac.nz/accommodation Support, services and resources ..........................122 www.victoria.ac.nz/scholarships STUDiO. .124 www.victoria-international.ac.nz Architecture and Design Library ........................125 Technical resources ...................................126 Cover image Key dates. 128 First Light House Solar Canopy. Image: Ron Blunt. Inside cover image First Light House at the Solar Decathlon 2011. Image: Ron Blunt. Faculty of Architecture and Design 2013 1 2 Victoria University of Wellington Introduction The Faculty of Architecture and Design, Te Wāhanga Waihanga- Three undergraduate qualifications Hoahoa, is one of New Zealand’s leading providers of innovative education in a wide selection of disciplines encompassing Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) has specialisations in design and the built environment. Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Architecture History and Theory. The BAS is a three-year degree The Faculty consists of the School of Architecture and programme of full-time study that provides students with a the School of Design and offers an extensive range of comprehensive grounding in the built environment, specific to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that cater for the their chosen specialisation. More information is on page 6. growing requirements of the creative sector. Bachelor of Building Science (BBSc) has specialisations in Our campus occupies a central city location just off Project Management and Sustainable Engineering Systems. The cosmopolitan Cuba Street. We offer world-class exhibition BBSc is a three-year degree programme of full-time study that spaces, lecture theatres, workshops, computer labs and design provides a thorough grounding in the science and technology studios. Our location means we can easily engage with working of building and an understanding of architecture. This provides practitioners in our teaching environment—the highest number students with the skills and knowledge to create solutions to of all disciplines in the University. technical construction situations. More information is on The Faculty’s programmes address the growing need for page 45. cross-disciplinary study and will provide students with greater Bachelor of Design Innovation (BDI) is a three-year degree capabilities for the professions they enter, and better prepare programme of full-time study. Students can choose to them for the increasingly complex society they engage with. specialise in one of three design disciplines (Culture+Context, Beyond undergraduate study, the Faculty offers a range of Industrial and Media) and have the unique opportunity to Master’s-level qualifications in Architecture and Design that combine study with a minor in another discipline such as can lead to traditional careers as architects and designers as Psychology, Cultural Anthropology, Māori or Pacific Studies, well as a diverse range of other possible career paths. writing, Film or Media Studies. This provides students with the opportunity to configure their studies to suit their individual For suitably qualified candidates the Faculty offers doctoral interests and intended careers. More information is on page 64. (PhD)-level study and supervision in architecture- and design- related fields. Contact the Faculty of Graduate Research (FGR) www.victoria.ac.nz/fad for further information by emailing [email protected] www.victoria.ac.nz/architecture www.victoria.ac.nz/design Faculty of Architecture and Design 2013 3 The built environment The School of Architecture at Victoria University is well placed Design-based research is a central part of the curriculum to provide intellectual leadership on a range of issues around and provides the platform from which students are able to contemporary practice and the built environment. With its synthesise the various subjects—history, theory, technology, unique combination of four disciplines—Architecture, Interior communications—through a design proposition. Environmental Architecture, Building Science and Landscape Architecture—it design practice increasingly demands of graduates the ability offers a multidisciplinary perspective from which to speculate to integrate and collaborate. In preparation for this the course on the implication of these issues for Wellington, New Zealand structure enables students to undertake occasional projects and the broader context of the Pacific rim. Teaching, learning with all or some of the four disciplines on a common project and research opportunities are structured around five research and in a studio setting. This provides opportunities for students clusters that align with the School’s strengths and aspirations. to work as part of a team and for genuine cross-disciplinary The clusters—Critical Practices, Constructing Ecologies, learning experiences and research outcomes. The particular Resilience, Spatial Praxis and Habitations—operate school- expertise of each discipline is understood and applied within wide and provide thematic umbrellas to frame inquiries, curate a broader context of related disciplines, moving towards an the curriculum and consolidate the School’s knowledge and enriched understanding of today’s most pressing challenges for expertise. a more sustainable future. www.victoria.ac.nz/architecture 4 Victoria University of Wellington Riccarton: A Suburb with a Human Pace, fourth-year studio project by Master of Architecture (Professional) student FirdausFaculty Sunhaji. of Architecture and Design 2013 5 Undergraduate overview Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) The BAS is a three-year undergraduate degree offered in four specialisations: ͠ Architecture ͠ Architecture History and Theory ͠ Interior Architecture ͠ Landscape Architecture. All four specialisations share a first-year programme in which design, technology, environmental studies and communication practices are studied in the context of all disciplines offered within the School. These courses give an overview of design knowledge for the built environment and introduce concepts, vocabularies and skills in an interdisciplinary context. In the second year students select one of the BAS disciplines to specialise in. The second year is discipline-specific, inclusive of technological, theoretical and design subjects that relate to the chosen specialisation. The third year reintegrates the disciplines and offers a richer and more complex interdisciplinary approach. This undergraduate degree alone does not qualify Architecture or Landscape Architecture students for professional registration. Students aspiring to become professional architects or landscape architects will need to look into postgraduate programmes (see pages 16 and 40). Similarly, Interior Architecture students should undertake postgraduate study in order to pursue careers as specialised designers (professional registration