Course info

The aim is to provide students with experience of a working environment in which they can apply their newly acquired Architectural Skills as well as observe and begin to learn the skills of the field that are necessarily gathered through hands on experience, especially in construction oversight, client management, etc. The students shall be attached to firms that focus on Architectural, Urban, or Landscape Design depending on the interest of the student and the availability of positions. The attachment will be structured with the student working on tasks or projects agreed on between the ARC Department and the Organization concerned.

Having successfully completed the module, students should demonstrate the understanding of:

i. Practical skills required in the profession of Architecture.

ii. Applicability of classroom learning to real world design challenges, as well as learning the limits of classroom learning.

iii. Greater depth the governing regulations of architectural design in Rwanda for various typologies (residential, educational, health related, etc).

iv. The processes of and stages of design from concept through permitting and construction oversight which can only be learned in the field.

v. Select and apply appropriate design skill sets in analyzing and solving design

vi. problems.

vii. To convincingly and intelligently discuss various aspects of a design problem.

viii. Apply competently the skills learnt

ix. Observe and record accurately Architectural issues within a work environment.