This studio is part of a series involving students from Melbourne and Nagoya Universities that explore urban structures and component built forms in the two cities: these arise from two cultural paradigms, and design/planning approaches. The method is to select and focus upon urban scale elements of these cities (for example, a superblock) and investigate their morphological characteristics, component architectural typologies, and underpinning principles of spatial organisation and design. <br/><br/>Melbourne and Nagoya display substantially different urban structures. Nagoya is an example of less centralised but more compact urbanism, with more widely distributed medium densities, a more... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: Admission into one of the following courses: MC-URBDES Master of Urban Design<br/>MC-DESURB Master of Design (Urban Design)<br/>MC-ARCH2Y Master of Architecture (200 points)<br/>MC-ARCH3Y Master of Architecture (300 points)<br/>MC-LARCH2Y Master of Landsc