Doctor of Philosophy - Built Environment

The Practice-based PhD in the Built Environment at UNSW Sydney is available across architecture, city planning, computational design, construction management and property, industrial design, interior architecture and landscape architecture. As with a traditional PhD, its aim is to contribute new knowledge to the field through systematic investigation, but the candidate generates both a new body of creative or ideas-based work, the Project, and a written Dissertation of 40,000 to 50,000 words that bears a direct relationship to the Project. Together these comprise the thesis. The Project can take many forms, from architectural and urban design to construction technologies, industrial design and landscape design, documented in electronic form for examination. Candidates complete a research seminar course in their first term and a specialised thesis writing workshop. The program runs three to four years full time in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the UNSW Kensington campus in Sydney. Graduates work as architects, designers, planners, construction managers and academics.