(Fully Online Postgraduate by Coursework Elective)

General everyday objects like ipods, sneakers, cars and mobile phones are continuously updated with new models in the current environment of accelerated cultural change. In this fully online course, you will examine how emerging technologies are influencing how architects aim to reinvent the way buildings look and feel, not only to answer humanity’s next challenges, but also to continue telling humanity’s stories through aesthetics.

Through reading, examination of images, reflection, discussion, analysis and writing, you will learn how futuristic architects are styling tomorrow’s built and landscaped environments. Inspiration from fluid dynamics, science fiction films and structural systems in plant life contribute to what is referred to as a culture of ‘convergence’ by the tying together of several creative disciplines. These processes will be studied, and expectations of what will constitute future built environments will be examined. Automation, smart buildings and intelligent designs operating as a science of design detection are all key factors that will be explored.

The course content will lead to an understanding of why built environments look the way they do, resulting in an in depth analysis of successful versus unsuccessful contemporary architectural examples.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.