Architecture enhances people’s lives through the creation of meaningful human environments. Many key challenges of contemporary society—such as sustainability, housing affordability, ageing-in-place, city living and community building—often involve spatial issues. Architecture applies a holistic way of thinking and acting to combine creative design processes and technical skills with understandings of human, cultural and environmental issues.

Notre Dame’s new Master of Architecture program provides a unique education, in the heart of Fremantle. In ethically, socially and environmentally responsible architecture where you are part of a small cohort of creative, critical–thinking students, embedded in architectural practice.

The strength of this program lies in its unique combination of the following:

• a small diverse cohort
• high-quality teaching approaches
• tailored practice placements
• socio-spatial design studios that tackle contemporary issues
• working within a studio-based, creative-practice research culture
• situated and engaged within the Fremantle community.

This program is embedded in professional practice and designed for creative and strategic-thinking students of architecture, looking to tackle contemporary issues while simultaneously gaining academic and practical experience. The program timetable is ideal for those seeking to study while working in the field.

You’ll learn in socio-spatial design studios on Campus and on tailored practice placements in architectural firms across Fremantle – home to many of Western Australia’s award-winning architectural projects.

You’ll spend time working at architectural practices where you’ll apply your professional and technical learning under the supervision of an Architect.

Professional placements are curated to suit your interests providing a breadth of experience for your CV.