We address shared societal and systemic challenges through a world-recognised education which inspires and enables our graduates to imagine and create sustainable, inclusive, healthy and vibrant futures for Australia and the world.
Our mission is to equip future generations of professionals and participants with engaged interdisciplinary practices that can shape our built and living environments with care, invention, and purpose. We do this through a diverse and wide-ranging set of programs which weave together multiple threads of learning and research in place. We teach across the built environment fields, making us unique among Australian universities, and part of a select group worldwide. Experiencing this diversity of expertise, practice, and perspective enables our graduates to create and design meaningful possible futures within a complex, unpredictable world.
A growing and diverse Melbourne provides the ideal environment in which to explore the future of cities and regions. It is frequently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable cities yet it also faces the numerous contemporary challenges shared by many other global cities. This emphasis on engaging with real world environments means that our teaching includes leading-edge researchers and industry practitioners, helping to teach into our programs, lead public discussion, and connect our learning to policy and practice.
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Cross-disciplinary learning
We offer a range of programs across built environment fields, weaving together multiple threads of learning and research.
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Design-led learning
We offer a small group, exploratory, and collaborative learning model across all disciplines, with opportunities to travel and study abroad.
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Student exhibitions
As a student at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, you will have the opportunity to display your work at twice yearly exhibitions.
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Maker spaces
Our range of purpose-built workshops and labs are some of the best equipped in Australia. They cover the spectrum of fabrication technologies from traditional wood and metal workshops to digital fabrication equipment.
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Mentoring and internship opportunities
Develop professional skills and better understand where you could take your career with a range of mentoring, internship and vocational placement options.
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Our campus
Sitting at the heart of the Parkville campus, the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning features a purpose-built teaching environment, including world-class maker spaces, labs, a library, and an exhibition gallery space.