Diploma in Architect Engineer
Course Details
Course Information Package
| Course Unit Title | PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE |
| Course Unit Code | APX411 |
| Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) - |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Understand the architectural profession and its role in society, in particular, in preparing briefs that take account of social factors.
- Analyse structural design and solve problems of construction.
- Identify all the stages of the study and preparation of a project and the type of drawings and number of copies that each one of them includes.
- Investigate the process and preparation of construction drawings.
- Recognize the composition processes and the relations and interdependences from the other studies that accompany the architectural study.
- Identify the relation of the architect’s responsibilities as regards: planning regulations, client demands and approval processes.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | NONE |
| Course Contents | This course handles the institutional issues and procedures that are related to the exercise of the profession of the Architect, in order to give the students the basic skills for confronting their integration in the professional practice. More specifically, the course covers the key features of the regulations that govern the following issues: The professional rights and obligations, the undertaking of the architectural study, the design of the built environment, the process of the preparation of architectural study, the licensing process, the tendering process and the application process in the construction site. The educational objective of the course is to enable the students to gain an overview of the institutional system and to have the ability to navigate within the system, as well as to have knowledge on practices so as they can easily handle subjects of architectural study and construction.
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| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | No specific textbook required |
| References | - Various government guides to Planning and building rules and regulations and forms.
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The course is taught through lectures conducted through power point presentations. Lectures notes and the presentations are available to the students in electronic form. Lectures are supplemented with site visits to projects and architects offices in order for the students to view the process and the final result, seeing in real life, potential problems that might have risen during the production (design to construction) of the building.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Class participation | 20% | | Midterm exam | 30% | | Final assignment | 50% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | NO |
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