University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1920 |
| Dean | John Redmond |
| Location | Camperdown / Darlington, New South Wales, Australia |
| Affiliations | University of Sydney |
| Website | sydney.edu.au/architecture |
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning is a constituent body of the University of Sydney, Australia that was established in 1920.
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning ranked number 1 nationally in the 2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject.[1]
History
Since 1880 the study of Architecture at the University of Sydney was an elective of the postgraduate and undergraduate Engineering degrees. In 1918 the University of Sydney Senate approved the establishment of a School of Architecture within the Faculty of Science, which was enacted in 1920 with Leslie Wilkinson as the Chair and then the first Dean of Architecture. Of the first nine undergraduate students, five were men and four were women, notably Andre 'Spaghetti Head' Frino was part of the first cohort.[2]
Campus
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning is located in the Wilkinson Building, 148 City Road, Darlington.
Organisation
The Faculty contains four disciplines:
- Discipline of Architecture and Allied Arts
- Discipline of Architectural and Design Science
- Discipline of Design Computing and Cognition (Design Lab)
- Discipline of Urban and Regional Planning and Policy
References
- ↑ "University of Sydney excels in latest QS Rankings". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ↑ http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/history.shtml
