The program of Architecture offers the following degrees:
- B.Sc. in Architecture
- Diploma of Architect-Engineer
- M.Sc. in Architecture
- Ph.D. in Architectue
Architecture can in many ways be seen as staging human
life, while being staged itself by it. Its role and significance
can thus hardly be overestimated. Having an impact on
the human race and the environment on a number of scales
and levels the field is inherently related to a wide variety
of areas with aesthetic, technological, social, cultural,
economic and political issues. The Department of Architecture
consequently has an important role to play in producing
architectural skills and knowledge through research, in
providing high quality education to students and practicioners
of architecture alike. It will also help the much needed
dialogue among the parties, directly or indirectly involved
in its production; the architectural community, other
professionals and the public.
Central to the department's philosophy and reflected
in the program of studies is the concept of integrated
design which stresses the necessity of a balanced focus
on the various aspects of architecture which make it the
complex and fascinating field that it is. The challenges
for both the discipline and the profession are many and
diverse but they could perhaps be summed up thus: to preserve
the past, accommodate the present and plan for the future;
to allow for the cultural while respecting the natural,
to identify the local within the global, to allow for
differences and bring out the similarities, to be innovative,
to create.
The nature of the profession offers the architect the
chance to be either self-employed or work in an office,
in both the private and public sector. Apart from practicing
architecture the design skills and knowledge obtained
can form the base on which a number of other career directions
can be built. Thus graduates of Architecture have a variety
of additional career options, such as project managers,
urban and town-planners, developers, contractors, industrial
designers, graphic designers, other media related and
creative activities, researchers and educators.
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