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Architecture
Develop advanced design skills and a deep understanding of the infrastructure supporting our growing population at Australia’s #1 university for Architecture and the Built Environment studies.*
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Why study architecture courses at RMIT?
Study at a top-ranked university
Ranked #1 in Australia and #15 in the world for courses in Architecture and Built Environment*.
Learn in an urban laboratory of design
Start designing from day one in our award-winning Design Hub.
Learn from award-winning architects
Practices led by our staff and alumni have been awarded the prestigious Victorian Architecture Medal.
*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
Get hands-on in architecture workshops
Our architecture courses are hands-on, equipping you with the skills to succeed in the workforce. Take a look at the RMIT workshops serving the School of Architecture and Urban Design and the School of Design.
RMIT Workshops for School of Architecture & Urban Design and School of Design
Take a look at the RMIT workshops serving the School of Architecture & Urban Design and the School of Design.
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Discover Architecture
Design the future you want to see
RMIT ranks 15th in the world for our courses in Architecture and the Built Environment*; a ranking that highlights our commitment to designing better ways of living in a complex and rapidly changing world.
Besides
architecture
, explore related disciplines such as
landscape architecture
, where you'll learn to combine art, science, nature and culture to design natural, urban, private and public spaces.
Our
interior design
courses teach you the art of creating beautiful and functional interiors, from architectural, retail, exhibition and urban environments to digital and cinematic spaces, performance and theatre design, art installations and more.
Urban design
at RMIT explores and promotes models for future city-building, addressing issues of sustainability, social equity, and community engagement.
*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
Free RMIT Postgraduate Masterclasses
Tap into the knowledge of RMIT’s experts in our Postgraduate Masterclass series. You’re invited to join us for these free masterclasses where RMIT academics will share their expertise and insights.
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Start designing from day one
Meet Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design students, Grace and Xinyang, and Bachelor of Architectural Design student, Victoria. Follow our three students as they experience a day in the life of a budding design professional at RMIT.
Start designing from day one
Meet Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design students, Grace and Xinyang, and Bachelor of Architectural Design student, Victoria. Follow our three students as they experience a day in the life of a budding design professional at RMIT.
It speaks of a time and place, but outlives passing trends of what’s in or out.
It designs for the present, nods to the past and plans for the future.
Architecture is more than just creating shelter — life plays out, in and around it.
Our homes, our schools, our parks, our bridges …the urban world around us didn’t just happen. It was planned.
From the private to the public, architecture influences the way we live, work and celebrate with one another.
It lets nature in.
It plays with light and shade, wind and stillness, structure and surface.
And it’s ever-changing.
New materials, building techniques, design tools…they all come together with bright imaginations.
It’s an opportunity to design the future we want to see.
To take those big ideas…and turn them into a built reality.
So… be the architect of what’s next.
Featured architecture courses
Master of Architecture
Become a professionally accredited architect with this internationally renowned master's degree.
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Master of Urban Design
Advance the role of design in shaping the future of cities through innovative approaches to urban-based practice.
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Master of Landscape Architecture
Envision, investigate, and propose better ways of living in a complex and changing world.
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Career outcomes
Be a design innovator
RMIT is globally recognised for its contribution to architecture. Our architecture course graduates achieve at the highest levels of their professions around the world. By studying here, you’ll engage with some of Australia’s most respected architects and and business leaders through work-integrated learning, and develop the necessary skills to become a design innovator.
Here are some career paths for our graduates:
architect
design researcher
design journalist
exhibition designer
interior designer
landscape architect
landscape technician
urban designer
How to become an architect
Combine creativity and technical expertise to transform ideas into architectural masterpieces.
How to become an interior designer
Build a career creating captivating spaces, functional designs, and aesthetic masterpieces.
Industry connections
In the RMIT architecture faculty, we are globally renowned for long standing links with industry through our teaching staff, many of whom are internationally recognised, award-winning architects. Students also have the opportunity to connect with industry through project-based learning, internships, guest lectures and studios.
Promote project-based learning and research
Landscape architecture students are working alongside the Heide Museum of Modern Art on a renewal masterplan. Students have been invited to explore the site and reimagine the environment to improve audience experience of this unique cultural landmark.
Empower emerging architects and designers
The partnership between RMIT and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) extends from a desire to elevate the cultural and social role architecture and design play in society. This partnership also supports sustainable and inclusive design practices from emerging artists and designers.
Explore RMIT's Master of Interior Design collaboration with global design practice GHDWoodhead
RMIT students studying the Master of Interior Design have collaborated with global design practice, GHDWoodhead in a studio to gain invaluable, practical experience and to explore the theme, Future of Learning.
Explore RMIT's Master of Interior Design collaboration with global design practice GHDWoodhead
RMIT students studying the Master of Interior Design have collaborated with global design practice, GHDWoodhead in a studio to gain invaluable, practical experience and to explore the theme, Future of Learning.
So the partnered studio is a really integral part of how we teach in the Master of Interior Design. We partnered with GHDWoodhead, they're a large global design practice, and their kind of specialist area is educational learning environments. So that allowed us to expose the students to a really extraordinary set of experts.
My role in the studio experience was to facilitate GHDWoodhead expertise in education and to bring our multidisciplinary specialist to share their experience and stimulate the students with opportunity to embed in their future of hybrid learning.
One of the critical things that they gained from GHDWoodhead being involved in the studio was exposure to a case study project, which was the Wurun campus in Fitzroy, and in that particular instance they were really exposed in detail to a very complex contemporary design of a campus, thinking about the campus as an urban condition, multi-story, which is unusual for high schools, but also a campus that's interconnected with its communities.
We were asked to generate quite a lot of prototypes of learning environments, learning situation, and then you're kind of making an assemblage of them and then really experiment with how things come together and what's the relationship that it produced.
I think the future of learning, it's not just provide students a comfortable learning environment, but also create social relations between student and space, student and teachers, students among themselves, while creating a dynamic learning environment.
It was really terrific just to get that expertise from a practitioner who's on the ground running, doing a live project, and use that as a basis to do their work and to ask questions about how they go about their processes in design. That was very helpful to have GHDWoodhead on board.
We have the opportunity to engage and learn about their design process, the value and strategy Tactics in actualising an educational campus. But I guess what really struck me out of this is the active engagement. Like I really felt that we are sharing a strong enthusiasm towards design and really towards the future of learning environments.
Hopefully for the students it was a really rich experience and one that they found both challenging, because of that kind of group work, but also one that allowed their work to progress much further than it would, than it would working alone.
I think the sort of the two way flow, you know there's no sort of barriers between designers and in our business we try to make everyone the designer, whether they be an architect, an engineer, an interior designer or landscape architect.
Everybody has a contribution to make to design and nobody's got a monopoly on good ideas, or the right idea, because that's something you workshop and you figure out in the process of design, and so we love that sort of interaction
with the students here and we just take those ideas and hopefully share a few ideas to get on that continual cycle of learning and improvement.
It's been a great opportunity for the students to witness the collaboration that works within private practice, not only within their own studio, but to external consultants as well. Also, the amount of research that goes into responding to a brief, they were able to tap into that knowledge and the expertise that GHDWoodhead had to offer.
RMIT artwork transforms State Library
Students took part in a competition to design artwork for the State Library of Victoria hoarding.
RMIT artwork transforms State Library
Students took part in a competition to design artwork for the State Library of Victoria hoarding.
A group of RMIT students from Communication, Design, Architecture, and Fashion were invited to take part in a competition to design artwork for the hoarding which will go across the front of the Swanston Street building as we undertake our transformation.
So every day, this building is filled with students, and this project was so special because we were inviting students to come in and interpret the collection.
This partnership is an amazing opportunity for the State Library and RMIT, two of the main institutions in the northern end of the CBD, to show how they engage with the city.
This particular learning environment exposes the students to what it's like to work with an actual client in an actual real-world situation.
One of the great opportunities about this project is the students got access to the collections and also to the librarians.
The students scoured the collections for things that interested them, using their interests to cut a cross-section through what exists in the State Library's collection.
Some of the 22 projects explicitly use things that students have found in the collections.
We received 22 entries and they were remarkable. The top three artworks really beautifully reflected the transformation that's happening here at the State Library, but also drew on the riches of the collection, which of course, is at the heart of everything we do at the State Library Victoria.
One of the really beautiful moments was when the winners were announced and the realisation that what they're working on is out there in the world as a creative work is a really rewarding experience for the students.
My inspiration came from thinking about the vast history of Victoria's landscape and its traditional owners. The fact that the Library is encouraging me in my design and supporting my ideas means a lot.
The Library is a special place for me, because it's a significant landmark in Victoria that I also go to time and time again. I used hand gestures evoking the notion of gathering, protest, and harmony.
It retains the importance of the forecourt being a place that belongs to the public. We were encouraged to take inspiration from the State Library collection itself. For my project, I was really taken by old images of flora and fauna.
So I'm super excited to have my work in front of the State Library. It's the biggest piece I've ever made. The Library is such an inspiring place, and we hope the artwork will remind people who are walking by, just how much value there is in this beautiful collection and this beautiful building. We hope it inspires all Victorians and all visitors.
Facilities and locations
As an RMIT student, you will have the opportunity to work on industry-relevant projects, engage with professionals, and learn in an urban laboratory of design: our award-winning Design Hub, designed by alumni and architect Sean Godsell. Our architecture courses will combine experimental design with industry-linked projects to develop your creative approach to architecture.
Access RMIT's award-winning Design Hub
RMIT's Design Hub is a progressive educational environment housing a community of architects, designers, and students inside a purpose-built, 10-storey building in Melbourne’s vibrant CBD.
Access RMIT's award-winning Design Hub
RMIT's Design Hub is a progressive educational environment housing a community of architects, designers, and students inside a purpose-built, 10-storey building in Melbourne’s vibrant CBD.
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Shaping the future of landscape architecture
The landscape architects of the future will create diverse and sustainable open spaces, in increasingly dense urban environments.
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Interior Design at RMIT in ten minutes
We asked Suzie Attiwill, Associate Dean of Interior Design, to answer your top questions about studying interior design at RMIT.
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I’m inspired by the longevity and impact landscape architecture can have. I can develop a project over two years, and the outcome might exist for 100 years.
– Matthew Kneale,
Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design
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