G5er Architecture

This course is designed not merely to teach architecture, but to train students to think, analyse, and design as emerging architectural scholars at G5 level. Architecture here is treated as both an intellectual and creative discipline — one that integrates conceptual reasoning, spatial awareness, temporal sensitivity, and technical precision.

Students will learn to absorb architectural ideas actively by deconstructing seminal works, identifying the underlying design logic, and evaluating how form, function, and context evolve together across time. They will explore architecture not as a static composition of forms, but as a dynamic system of relationships — between light and material, structure and experience, permanence and change.

Through iterative design projects and critical studio discussions, students will develop synthesis skills — weaving together aesthetics, structure, sustainability, spatial organisation, and temporal transformation into coherent architectural propositions. The course culminates in a G5-style design critique and reflective essay, assessing not only creative output but the reasoning and temporal narrative that underpin it.

Ultimately, this program transforms students from passive admirers of buildings into active architectural thinkers — capable of articulating design intent, defending conceptual decisions with clarity, and understanding architecture as the orchestration of space, time, and human experience. This maturity of thought and intellectual precision is precisely what G5 universities seek in their future architects.