Architects also make a significant contribution to community development from their background of comprehensive training and professional discipline. If you can see yourself designing structures and environments which require both artistic and technical skill, if you are concerned for people and their welfare, environmental sustainable design and wish to make a valuable contribution to the built environment then architecture would probably suit you. These qualifications, together with approved professional experience will allow you to become registered and to legally call yourself an architect. The Department Of Architecture The Department of Architecture forms part of the School of Architecture, Construction and Planning at Curtin University. The School is a progressive and exciting faculty with 25 full time academic staff, some of whom teach on an interdisciplinary basis in two or more of the School's four Departments.
Numerous industry based practitioners and guest lecturers also teach in the programme.
We offer a comprehensive course of study in the discipline of architecture, allowing graduating students to successfully operate in a contemporary building industry. A strong architectural community is developed in the school through exhibitions and publications. Given the diversity of architectural practice, our course provides the education essential to become an architect, but at the same time allows students to pursue their own specific interest or talent through options and minor studies focus areas. There are five years of study to complete resulting in two degrees. The next two years of a Bachelor of Architecture degree are devoted more specifically to the professional practice of architecture.