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Chalmers University of Technology launches a new Master’s programme in Interior Architecture that will provide advanced knowledge in the design of architectural space. Focus is set on enriched spatial experience and the human interaction with space as well as health and environmental issues and knowledge in physical and technical conditions – acoustics, light, colour, materials, indoor climate and construction.

The programme will start in the autumn semester 2009. The aim is to develop abilities to form high quality spaces in an interior art that can organize functions, acoustic atmospheres, lighting and colour, indoor climate and supporting structures to an artistic entirety.

With the course Research by Design as a starting point, the programme uses a creative, investigative approach where design projects are the main educational form. Projects will focus on themes like Space and sound, Space and climate, Lighting and colour, Space, material and construction, and Extreme environments. Public and collective spaces stand at the centre of the studies. The second year course on Design for Sustainable Development will develop deeper knowledge on energy efficiency, materials and emissions, work climate, ergonomics and ‘design for all’.

The programme is hosted by the Department of Architecture, in collaboration with Civil and Environmental Engineering, the IT University and the Lighting Design Center in Alingsås. Through this co-operation, the education generates a diversity that responds to current and future labour market demands: the need for a professional competence that can move between architectural and interior design; deal with the shaping of spatial sequences, indoor and outdoor spaces, general spaces and spaces for specific use, and take part in teams of advanced, integrated design tasks.

Thirty students will be admitted each year. Prerequisites are a Bachelor degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture or Interior Design. Admission will be made by ranking portofolios. Depending on Bachelor profile, the education will give the degree Master of Architecture (in Swedish, ‘Arkitektexamen’), authorised by the Swedish Association of Architects, or Master of Science (in Swedish, ‘Teknologie masterexamen’), with the specification ‘Interior Architecture’.

The Architecture and Construction Industry encompasses a wide range of career options. There are many excellent employment opportunities within this dynamic and growing industry. The Educational programs offered by the Architecture and Construction Department are designed to prepare student to fulfill challenging employment opportunities within the industry.

The department offers two degree programs; an Applied Associates of Science Degree in Architectural Technology (345) and an Integrated Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Management (605). Both degrees offer a range of options that will allow students to customize their course of study to fulfill future employment ambitions. Both degrees also require a high level of academic and technical abilities and students should have developed good math, science, art, and manual skills prior to enrollment in the program.

The Doctoral Program in Architecture, a joint initiative with University of Bologna and with IUAV, is under the auspices of the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara. Each year, the faculty decides the academic coursework expressly created for the doctorate program and that taken from other courses of study.

The annual plan for the academic activity of each graduate student, proposed by the student and his or her advisor at the beginning of each year, is verified at the end of the year by the faculty during the colloquium that decides admission to the following year or to the final exam.

Credits have to be subdivided according to the regulations of the pertaining Macro-Area. Students of the first year will acquire 10 credits in transversal activities, 6 credits in macro-area activities and 44 credits within disciplinar activities.

Architecture and Urban Design

Architects and urban designers deal with the man-society-environment relationship, exploring a wide range of technological, artistic and human issues. The Architecture and Urbanism Program from the Universidade Federal de Viçosa,started in 1992 and recognized by Decree nº 1.043/97, prepares architects and urban designers, so that they can work either in architectural and urban planning projects or in management, supervision and civil construction. Achitects and urban designers have the competence to work on interior design projects and construction, historic sites and urban design.

The Architecture and Urban Design Program offers courses in graphical illustration, architecture and urban design theory and history; structures and technology; urban and regional planning and architectural projects. This array of courses aims to prepare professionals committed to the social reality in Brazil, who are able to work not only in great urban centers, but also in smaller towns and cities.

The Program has been evaluated twice by the Exame Nacional do Curso (National Undergraduate Course Examination) and was awarded grade “A”. In 2005, the program achieved the highest grade in the ENADE – Exame Nacional de Desempenho (National Performance Examination).

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design (DAU), responsible for the program, has its own building on the campus. There are ateliers with architect drawing desks and laboratories (computer, environmental welfare, plastic, scale modeling and retrospective techniques). The DAU also offers a Latu sensu graduate program (specialization) in City Planning. Several agreements with city halls in the region and other institutions have made it possible for undergraduates to be in contact with the reality of the cities, offering them opportunities of direct involvement with the professional routine, during training periods. In this way, many consultancies have been developed in order to elaborate architectural and urban projects; and even Management Plans for some cities in Minas Gerais State.

The DAU has a highly qualified faculty, come from the best National and International universities, which contributes to the consolidation of the program and leads it to excellence levels equivalent to those of other famous institutions. Nowadays, 70% of our faculty hold Doctorate Ph.D. degrees or are on PhD. programs and 25% hold Master’s degree. Many graduates from the UFV Architecture and Urban Design Program have been selected for graduate programs at the best universities in Brazil, or for positions in public institution recruitment examinations for city halls, state secretaries, IBAMA and the Ministry of Cities.

The mission of the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Arts is to contribute to vocational training with academic excellence with high quality and fulfilling work in the strategic development of the country, this is the case with participation in more than 90% of regional projects City and throughout the country, also with regard to national and international student conference is coming to occupy first place in the different categories: Construction, Urban Planning, Design, Landscape, Art.

BACKGROUND
The Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Arts, began its institutional life under the name “Special Section of Architects and Builders”, being created by President Augusto B. Supreme Decree Leguía April 29, 1910, by the architect Ricardo Malachowski from JAXA, of Polish origin and studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris.

By creating the department, the Department of Architecture, was the first Chief Architect and Director Rafael Marquina andalusia Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry (later President of the Republic) who was its first dean in 1955, which built the the current local School of Architecture, designed by Architect Mario Bianco.

SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE COLLEGE STUDENT
Library
Considered the best library in the country in the field, together with a large heritage for many years and always updating. This update also includes means for recording and accessing documents which accurately and quickly find more than 12,000 books, 7,000 magazines, 5,000 theses and research projects, as well as maps, newspapers and other documents and monographs. Soon have new facilities and club music video library selected.

Auditorium
Is the most modern of UNI, auditorium for 300 people, with audio and video installations in which all kinds of cultural and academic events, highlighted by its unique design and beauty.

Academic Computing Lab
Facilities available to the student from the first cycle. It consists of machines networked with all UNI and programs to different areas. In the laboratory Graphics Training Systems provides training in the area beside Graphics technical information, statistics and geo-referenced data.

Workshops
We design workshops, not shared with other courses.
It has rooms according to the dictation of courses in all its forms as well as major events. Other environments are specialized photography workshop, the Arts Workshop, the Workshop Model and Service Printing and Publications. We have a great atmosphere for exhibitions and open spaces for outdoor events.

The Department of Architecture’s professional architecture programme is a two-degree programme: a three-year Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies (BAS), and a two-year Master’s degree in Architecture (MArch).

Once you have the BAS degree, should you decide not to proceed further, and once you have complied with the South African Council for the Architectural Profession’s (SACAP) practical training requirements, you can register as a senior architectural technologist.

Once you have the MArch (Professional) degree and have complied with SACAP’s practical training requirements, you can register as a full professional architect.

BAS graduates may also register for MTech: Architectural Technology after completing one year of work in an architectural practice.

In view of the facts that traditional sculptural arts is disappearing seriously and there is no any related department or graduate school, the Ministry of Education and Legislative Yuan proposed that this department should be set up to train the specialists in preserving the historic sites. For the sake of carrying forward the traditional crafts, maintaining the important historic sites, and preserving the national arts, the college decides to have the department established on the basis of the outstanding achievements of it’s predecessor, National Taiwan Academy of Arts, and set the departmental targets according to the above considerations. Therefore, the Traditional Craft Department is then permitted to recruit students form 2000 academic year.

Research Focus:
The mission of this department are to study and preserve Taiwan traditional cultural characteristics and information; and inherit the traditional folk arts and crafts, and maintain professionally the historic sites.especially for the historic allusion,changes of drawig ＆ manuscript,and preservation of information in traditional culture ,the department will keep and maintain systematically,and set up a complete system for the important field investigation of cultural assets.

The Department of Architecture in National Institute Of Technology Trichy had a humble origin 21years back. The department was started with just three faculty members and hardly any infrastructure. But the growth of the department in these twenty one years has been phenomenal. Today we have faculty members who have specialised in all important branches of architecture and a group of able students drawn from all over the country. Together we evolved a work culture that has brought us success in academics, professional practice and extra-curricular activities.

The architectural wing of the main library houses more than three thousand books on architecture and related fields. There is also a fairly large collection in the department library. The department library also includes information on modern building materials. A building science laboratory has been developed in the department. It is an archive of catalogues, samples of various building materials and is constantly upgraded. It enables the faculty members to keep abreast with the latest trends in the building industry and incorporate a more practical approach in their teaching methodology.

Audio-visual teaching aid is being utilized by our department to give a modern fillip to the teaching – learning process.

Our curriculum was devised taking into the changes that are taking place in the construction industry in India, in general and architecture, specific. Equipping the students, the ability to start private practice immediately on completing the course is the main objective of our curriculum, thus encouraging the spirit of the true entrepreneur.

The students and staff are quite proficient in architecture – related computer-software like breeze, daylight, 3D Studio, AutoCAD (2002), Photoshop, GDS, Maya, Micro Station, Micro GDS, etc..

Our department is a participant of the institutes’s interdisciplinary project on the “energy-theme”; a collaborative venture with Government of United Kingdom. Some faculty members were sent to UK in relation to this project.

Today the abilities of our students are so well known that various institutions seek our help for their projects. Cambridge University expert’s study on Kumbakonam city and French Institute’s studies on Far East, Pondicherry and on Gingee Fort are two recent projects in which our students contributed their mite and won appreciation.

The Department of Architecture envisages to provide an academically strong platform for the aspirants those who not only want to make a good metier but also to leave an enduring impression in the field of Architecture. The educational programme in Architecture through out the world shares a common view of the future of mankind and recognises its unpredictability. This calls for an attitude for research, exploration and evaluation to authenticate the work of design. Great are the thoughts that moved the world… greater are the perpetuators of these thoughts. The department of Architecture plans and strives to reach these goals.

The School of Design and Architecture with an emphasis on harmonization between arts and technology, was established in 1996, and it consists of two departments in Design and Information Technology, and Architecture and Urban Design.  The Department of Design and Information Technology, whose conceptual goal concerns the urban landscape, offers three majors in visual-arts design, image information design, and urban design.  The Department of Architecture and Urban Design, whose conceptual goal concerns health-care, and environment offers two majors in smaller and larger environmental systems design.

The school offers not only baccalaureate degree majors but also quality education in an atmosphere that
encourages learning and personal growth resulting in activities in professional design fields. Because of the
smaller class size, the professors are able to get students involved in active learning situations in conjunction with benefits from on-campus laboratory facilities. Furthermore, a strong faculty and staff dedicated to research and teaching make the classroom experience both challenging and rewarding. The school also has a full schedule of cultural events on campus, including frequent concerts, films, and lectures.