Research Lab: History and Heritage (ARCH7084)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2025
Course level
Postgraduate Coursework
Faculty
Engineering, Architecture & Information Technology
School
Architecture, Design, Planning
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
General contact hours 3 Hours/ Week
Restricted
MArch and MUrbDevDes students only.
Assessment methods
Cumulative Research Project
Final Research Project
Course enquiries
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
This course focuses on the uses and understanding of built environments constructed in the past, how we can learn from them and manage their on-going lives. The course introduces theoretical and methodological issues of historiography such as forms of analysis, argument and evidence; and research practices such archival research and oral history; the collecting and maintaining of archives of architecture; and Digital Humanities techniques such as 3-d scanning, data analysis, and visualisation. The course includes a critical understanding of the principles and statutory regulation of cultural heritage. Students will employ the learning in a researching, documenting and analysing a building, persons or institutions, or ideas
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |