ARCHITECTURE

Design Electives With Master Of Urban Design

Conrad Hamann Ian Nazareth

SEMESTER 1 2023

WEDNESDAYS 14 30 - 17 30

LOCATION: 100.06.007

Urbanism: History and Theory introduces you to the key ideas, precedents and theoretical discourse in urban design, both current and historical. It provides a critical understanding of the discipline and an intellectual framework through which you can establish a position on future urban design practice. Seminal texts, key practitioners, exemplary projects and speculative proposals are curated to highlight critical issues in urbanism historically and currently. These issues include: design process and urban morphology; economic and political frameworks; technological, industrial and infrastructural development; and socio-political policies in design.

Course content provides you with a comprehensive overview of urban design practice and a detailed understanding of the mechanisms producing and affecting urban space. Examples from local and international contexts are presented.

Semester 1 2023

TUESDAYS 16.00 - 19.00, 100.06.007

The contemporary city is not a cohesive entity, but rather a fragmented and heterogeneous landscape shaped by multiple, often conflicting, forces and variables. Case studies in Urban Design seeks to understand, analyse, theorise, and speculate about the city through its urban projects.

Strategic urban design projects represent a broad description from specific buildings, superblocks, precincts, public spaces, infrastructure and networks, ecological systems, specialised clusters and models of decentralisation etc. are an attempt to establish a relationship between the implications of socio-culture, economics and politics and the agency of urban policy / planning and material forces, that collectively engender urban form.

Ian Nazareth David Schwarzman

Case Studies in Urban Design introduces you to the processes of design and implementation for complex urban design projects. Structured through a series of analytical and critical investigations, (case studies), this course provides an opportunity for self-directed research into key urban projects.

Using Melbourne as a laboratory, each Case Study uncovers the design ambitions, historical or theoretical precedents, economic drivers, political agendas, regulatory frameworks or other pertinent narratives underpinning the project, presented through analytical drawing, mapping, working with statistical urban analytics, data visualisations, data scraping working with API, and accompanied by written critical reflections.

The course aims to expose you to the detailed, multidisciplinary workings of urban design practice through self-directed research, and develop a comprehensive yet practical disciplinary knowledge applicable to future design practice.