Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours)

Stand out with Deakin’s Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours), a unique degree that combines studies in key aspects of the built environment. Explore architectural ideas and design approaches while learning how to manage construction projects, no matter their scale or scope. Gain in-depth knowledge and skills in architecture, design, construction and project management, while exploring your options for a diverse career in the built environment industry.

With an emphasis on practical learning, you will gain plenty of hands-on experience with opportunities for industry placements and involvement in real-world projects. Develop creative process and practical skills by exploring design, drawing, digital fabrication, measuring, estimating, project management and construction knowledge. Graduate workplace-ready with opportunities for site visits, international study tours and exchange.

Want to launch your career on the world stage?

The Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) qualifies you to work in Australia or overseas, in more than 50 countries. It offers an excellent mix of hands-on practice and theory, so that you graduate job - ready.

While studying a combined course in architecture and construction management, you will learn about:

• architectural history, theory and design
• computer-aided modelling and digital fabrication
• drawing and model making as part of the design process
• building economics and law
• building practice
• measurement and estimation
• project management
• quantity surveying
• construction technology building science and the environment
• digital built environment
• sustainable built environment.

Within this course, you will work closely with other architecture and construction management students, creating a multidisciplinary learning experience that stands out to potential employers.

It will also allow you to better recognise the mindset and drivers of an architect or construction manager when working together in industry.

Our location in Geelong gives us a unique environment to explore urban and regional issues and multiple scales of projects. We are positioned to connect the city to regional Victoria through our learning experiences and research. This opens opportunities to examine our community’s sustainability and resiliency through our design-based investigations.

With the design (architecture) component of this course, you will gain practical skills studying real-world projects in a studio environment, developing your ability to generate, analyse and communicate your own ideas. You will learn to integrate creative thinking with real-world practicalities, and develop skill sets that allow you to examine and shape the places we inhabit - including all building types, spaces and locations.

The construction management component will give you the skills to manage small-to-large projects that require knowledge across construction technology and processes, resource management, law, information technology, environmental management, and construction economics.

Your learning space will include Deakin’s purpose-built a+b studio, an open plan space to work collaboratively, share ideas and develop your projects. There is access to our architecture workshop that offers you a place to fabricate models and experiment with technology, materials, and processes. The workshop is fully equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, and traditional tools and machinery.

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