Study postgraduate architecture
Three reasons to study Architecture at UTS
Designing a sustainable future
Our students become agile practitioners who push the boundaries of architecture towards a more sustainable future. When you study with us, you’ll engage with academic and professional challenges across diverse social, economic, ecological, and political contexts. You’ll explore new paradigms of practice, work on real and imagined design briefs, and prepare to drive sustainable change in the architectural profession.
Graduates of note
Our alumni are consistently recognised by industry for excellence in architectural design. Previous UTS School of Architecture graduates have won high profile awards, including the Architects Registration Board Gold Medallion, the INDE Graduate Award, and the Solar Decathlon; worked with world-leading practitioners, including Peter Stutchbury, Angelo Candalepas, and fjmtstudio; and exhibited at prominent venues, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Aedes Gallery Berlin, and the German Architecture Museum (Frankfurt).
At the forefront of digital disruption
Technology is transforming architectural practice. When you study with us you’ll learn to visualise, materialise, and rigorously test your ideas using the latest imaging software and analog and digital fabrication techniques. You’ll work in our 24/7 computer labs and studios; explore our Digital Maker Space; get hands-on experience in our Advanced Fabrication Lab; and let your creativity take over in our augmented reality, virtual reality, and professional photography studios.
Master of Architecture
The professionally accredited Master of Architecture will prepare you to engage with and contribute to contemporary architectural culture, as well as to take the next step towards registration as an architect. In this degree, you’ll develop the professional capabilities you need to work collaboratively in a range of multidisciplinary scenarios. You’ll also learn to engage with contemporary politics, design experimentation, and social and environmental issues as critical components of your future professional practice.
Project-based course content includes lectures, colloquia, seminars, global studios, and masterclasses – and is delivered by the world leading practitioners and academics who are the foundation of our program. In any one semester, you’ll choose from up to 15 design studios on topics as diverse as refugee housing, material cultures, transformation technologies, computational methods, and ecological precarity. This studio sequence will teach you to connect design with thought and action by building, testing, and refining projects that respond to a range of societal and technological issues. You can also use your elective subjects to develop specialist capabilities in areas such as construction technology, digital fabrication, architectural history and theory, and more.
Contemporary architects are both public intellectuals and advocates for societal transformation, as well as imaginers and creators of the physical environment. By the end of your degree you’ll have a thorough understanding of architectural processes, coupled with the research-by-design and social advocacy skills required to make a difference in your field.
