Diploma In Architecture Queenstown, Central

Course details

Are YOU passionate about architecture? Have you found yourself stopping to admire and guess how skyscrapers, museums and bungalows were designed? Do you have a dream of impacting the way people live, breathe and interact with the spaces they fill? If you do, then unlock your talent here at DARCH, Singapore’s first (and only) full-fledged architecture diploma.

At DARCH, we believe that anyone and everyone can be trained in architecture. Anyone who enters the course will be equipped with the essential skill sets to one day fully realise your ambition of becoming an architect. The unique pedagogy in place will aid in your holistic development into an adaptable, open-minded and motivated inpidual as well as a team player. From laying your design foundations in the first year, to strengthening your analytical and conceptual thought processes by the third year, DARCH is a design-cum-technological programme that adopts a unique project-based learning approach, to develop you into an investigative design innovator equipped with a knowledge of the latest building technologies.

DARCH. Creativity starts here.

Course Highlights

1. Study in an exploratory environment that values critical and creative thinking in hands-on studios.
2. Be equipped in the fundamentals of architectural design processes and practices through project work and out-of-classroom learning sessions.
3. Participate in overseas study trips and real-life projects with MNCs and government agencies through archiLAB, our student-centric agency.

SUBJECT                                                                        GRADE

1. English Language (as 1st Lang)                           1 - 7*
2. Mathematics (Elementary / Additional)                 1 - 7
3. Any two other subjects                                         1 - 6

MODULE NAME

First Year

• Architectural Design Studio I
• History and Theory of Architecture I
• Materials and Architectural Technology I
• Environmental Science I
• Computer-Aided Design & Presentation
• Communicating for Personal and Team Effectiveness
• Communicating for Project (Proposal) Effectiveness
• General Education 1
• General Education 2

Second Year

• Architectural Practice
• Architectural Design Studio II
• History and Theory of Architecture II
• Materials and Architectural Technology II
• Environmental Science II
• Communicating for Professional Effectiveness
• Social Innovation Project or Overseas Social Innovation Project
• General Education 3

Third Year

• Elective I
• Elective II
• Materials and Architectural Technology III
• Environmental Science III
• Internship Programmes
• Architectural Design Studio III
• Detailing for Sustainable Design in Architecture & Landscape
• Active, Beautiful, Clean Water Design
• Advanced Digital Presentation