hello
I'm a 1st year student from B. Interior Architecture in UNSW. The course is half interior half architecture. We haven't really done the interior till now, which is for our last project. The course is tough. So far, around 6 people has dropped out/kicked out, with more coming to drop the course next year. You have to come 80% of the attendance! or you'll fail straight away. I wasn't really into architectural stuff when i joined so my opinion may sound biased.
Basically, you'll be enrolled to 5 subjects.
You'll be assigned to projects when you 1st enrolled in. You have to present your work every week in design studio to talk about your analysis of the site, precedent, and brief (the analysis is only a one time thing in a project) plus your concept for the design. You may have to fork out quite a sum of money to do your presentations as we have to do some working models along the way, and finally the model plus the printing for the presentation works.
Also, it's good if you have already know some basic computing, we use AutoCAD 2007 this year and I was struggling in the beginning (this is for communication).
You'll also learn how building stand up...blah blah...the technology of the structure~ we're doing the cardboard shelter now for technology. It's fun
Theory and history....hmm...depend on which teacher you've got really. But in both classes, you will have to write essays. In history, you'll have a small test, but i think you'll find no problem with it. This semester, our theory teacher is being replaced by a new girl teacher for temporarily but she isn't that good. I don't think any of us understand what she is teaching. For history, however, the teacher is fun. Everyone like her class. We'll do some site visits along the semester. You would have to draw some interior features of the site and explain/describe them.
so yeah...basically that's all, there's more to interior architecture..but if I keep writing more about my experience in the course, I may bore you guys. If there's any more qn, feel free to ask
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