The Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture prepares future professionals whose designs will enhance the quality of urban life by means of natural and built elements. Reflecting the complex and multidisciplinary structure of this profession, the departmental faculty has members from disciplines that include architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. The curriculum emphasizes participation in successive design studios, supplemented by lectures that provide theoretical, technical, and practical background to the design process. The program is enriched through field trips and compulsory summer practicums that strengthen the link between education and practice.

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From this Academic Year College of Art & Design is implementing the new B. Arch. Programme in Architectural Design. This programme focuses on a broad range of perceptions linking several common concerns like location, context, practice, building methods, materials, and most importantly the role of the architect. Today the architect is seen more as a collaborator in shaping the physical environment rather than the sole creator of a completed building. In this programme a number of general and specialized courses spread over ten semesters. The category of courses taught include Architecture Fundamental Courses, Architecture Major Requirements, Architecture Electives and Major Supporting Courses and Liberal Art courses, as per NAAB (National Architectural Accreditation Board) guidelines. An Internship course will help the students to explore professional practices in the field and final project will enable you to do a project from concept to final product using the theory and design learnt in the programme. Architectural Design programme will enable the students to develop their qualities and skills relevant for immediate employment. The Programme will also help them to understand the methods of investigation and preparation of the brief for a design project and provide adequate knowledge of the Building industries, organizations, regulations and procedures involved in translating design concepts into buildings and integrating plans into overall planning. This will also enable students to prepare for a variety of careers in future in research and teaching. [-]

Bachelor - Environmental Design

Environmental design is a present-day direction of design for creative personalities who possess high level imaginative and systems thinking. It helps develop skills for artistic and creative activity in changing and completing architectural complexes of the modern city with outdoor advertising, in decorating sore window-cases, parklands, trade fairs, folk festivals, in preparation of topical exhibitions, museum expositions, in creating interiors of different purpose. Advantages of education.You will be able to:

become designer in enterprises of the production sector and other sectors of national economy, in creative organizations and institutions (design-bureau, architecture firms, printing and advertising companies), in education institutions, in state self-government authorities; build up character and image of the city; continue education in graduate and post-graduate school; receive additional education in programs offered by VSUES; become founder of a new style in city environment design; open your own art workshop, design-bureau. ... [-]