The Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, also known as The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, formerly the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, is a constituent body of the
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's ...
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, Australia. The school was established in 1920.
History
From 1880, the study of
architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
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
Leslie Wilkinson , FRAIA, (12 October 1882 – 20 September 1973) was a UK-born Australian architect and academic. He was the founding dean of the faculty of architecture at University of Sydney in 1920. A traditionalist, he is known for his r ...
as the chair and then the first dean of architecture. Of the first nine undergraduate students, five were men and four were women.
Campus
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning is located in the
Wilkinson Building, 148
City Road
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Darlington.
The
Tin Sheds Gallery is all that remains of the Tin Sheds art workshops, established in 1969 by
Donald Brook
Donald Brook (8 January 1927 – 17 December 2018) was an Australian artist, art critic, philosopher, and theorist, whose research and publications centre on the philosophy of art, non-verbal representation and cultural evolution. He initiated ...
and Marr Grounds.
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Rankings
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning ranked 1st in Australia and 15th in the world for "Architecture and Built Environment" in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Organisation
The school contains four disciplines:
* Discipline of Architecture
* Discipline of Architectural Science
* Discipline of Design
* Discipline of Urban and Regional Planning and Policy
It hosts five research groups:
* Architectural & Building Design
* Architectural & Building Science & Technology
* Architectural History, Theory & Criticism
* Design Lab
* Urbanism
References
External links
*
Architecture, Design and Planning, Faculty of
1920 establishments in Australia
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