AC 5010 Historic Buildings Survey and Recording

Units: 4

Tutor: Nikhil Joshi

This module will equip the students with the specialized skills to research, analyze and record historic buildings. It will also familiarize them with current professional guidance on standards and reports, including deskbased assessments, historic building reports, condition assessments, and heritage statements. Working on-site, the students will gain experience in various survey and recording techniques such as LiDAR scanning, digital twin, H-BIM, and building pathology.

Ac 5011

Conservation of C20th Buildings

Units: 4

Tutor: Nikhil Joshi

The module reviews the extant knowledge about conserving twentieth-century buildings in Singapore and worldwide. The module will include an introduction to conservation principles, methodology, and technical solutions to the deterioration and failure of the twentiethcentury building materials such as concrete and building systems. Topics explored will also include the history of modern architecture, its associated technologies, and modernist design principles. Through guest lectures, case studies and field trips from Singapore and around the world, the module will give students access to some of the best experts in the field who will share their knowledge and experience of conserving the architecture of the recent past and heritage challenges posed by the architecture and technology of twentieth-century buildings.

Ac 5012

Practical Building Conservation Skills

Units: 4

Tutor: Nikhil Joshi

Working with experienced conservation practitioners, the students will understand the principles and practices involved in conserving historic buildings and materials, mainly in Southeast Asia. The range of topics to be covered includes visual analysis, scientific investigation and understanding of materials, assessment of conservation needs, the range of remedial solutions relating to the use of traditional building materials, and hands-on experience to develop practical skills and techniques in timber, lime mortars, plasters and renders, Shanghai plasterwork, brick masonry, decorative wall tiles, and stained glass.

Ac 5014

Internship

Units: 4

Tutor: Johannes Widodo + Nikhil Joshi

The MA Architectural Conservation offers the opportunity to engage students with local and international practices, gaining practical and research experience in heritage conservation, by working as an intern/attachment in a private company or public organization in Singapore and the region. This practical experience can also be validated as a part of the elective internship module. Students can take this module either during the semester or semester break to put the knowledge and skills they have learned into practice and to further develop their conservation understanding and expertise.