Bachelor of Architectural Studies
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Majors
- Design
- Urbanism
- Conservation and Sustainability
Architectural Studies
Skills and knowledge you may gain from your program:
- Design thinking and design process
- Understanding relationship between technical knowledge and design
- Graphic communication skills – clearly and accurately communicating complex ideas using visual means (analogue and digital), including drawing, photography, multi-media, 3-dimensional models
- Verbal Communication in the development of ideas
- Flexible and creative thinking and problem solving
- Strong research skills
- Project management – working within time constraints as well as regulatory and economic frameworks; formulating ideas and responding to programs or briefs; synthesizing ideas, approaches and interpretation for each project
- Information technology skills
- Collaboration and Team skills – working with others; working within the culture of the design studio
- Negotiating conflicting demands of function, aesthetics, technology and economy, and will be trained in many forms of expression including writing, model-making, drawing, photography, video, digital media, and verbal presentation
- Learning to do more with less
Careers:
- Architecture
- Architectural History
- Graphic Design
- Architectural Conservation
- Interior Architecture
- Urban Design and City Planning
- Film and Video
- Public Policy
Job Titles of Program Graduates:
- Architect
- Architectural Journalist
- Architectural Historian
- Architectural Writer/Critic
- Corporate Architect
- Draftsperson
- Professor
- Public Architect
- Specification Writer
- University Architect
- Building Researcher
- Building Inspector
- Building Contractor
- Carpenter
- Cartographer
- Construction Manager
- Construction Worker
- Facilities Manager
- General Labourer
- Materials/Products Sales
- Physical Plant Inspector
- Architectural Engineer
- Civil Engineer
- Computer Systems Analyst
- Illuminating Engineer
- Industrial Engineer
- Marine Architect
- Mechanical Engineer
- Surveyor
- Technical Illustrator
- Urban Planner
- Art Director
- Creative Director
- Fashion Designer
- Furniture Designer
- Graphic Designer
- Illustrator
- Industrial Designer
- Interior Designer
- Landscape Architect
- Photographer
- Set Designer
- Banker
- City Manager
- Art School Design Teacher
- Environmental Designer
- Lawyer
- Management Analyst
- Real Estate Broker/Analyst
- Real Estate Appraisers
- School Plant Consultant
- Writer, Technical Publications