Bachelor of Architectural Studies

Skills and knowledge you may gain from your program:

• Design thinking and design process
• Understanding relationship between technical knowledge and design
• Graphic communication skills – clearly and accurately communicating complex ideas using visual means (analogue and digital), including drawing, photography, multi-media, 3-dimensional models
• Verbal Communication in the development of ideas
• Flexible and creative thinking and problem solving
• Strong research skills
• Project management – working within time constraints as well as regulatory and economic frameworks; formulating ideas and responding to programs or briefs; synthesizing ideas, approaches and interpretation for each project
• Information technology skills
• Collaboration and Team skills – working with others; working within the culture of the design studio
• Negotiating conflicting demands of function, aesthetics, technology and economy, and will be trained in many forms of expression including writing, model-making, drawing, photography, video, digital media, and verbal presentation
• Learning to do more with less