International Reputation

"Sydney is the second ranking Asia-Pacific economic powerhouse after Tokyo."*
*from: Saskia Sassen, "Hong Kong - Shanghai: networking as global cities" in Instant China: notes on an urban transformation, 2G Revista Internacional de Arquitectura

The Faculty is housed in the Wilkinson Building, named after Leslie Wilkinson, the first professor of architecture in Australia. The building, on the Darlington campus of the University of Sydney, provides extensive lecture seminar, studio and laboratory space for all students in a collegial and friendly atmosphere. It houses both the largest architecture and planning library and the largest and most modern CAD/computing resources centre in architecture and allied disciplines in Australia.

The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning was established in 1919 to conduct an undergraduate professional Bachelor of Architecture program. In 1948 the Department of Town and Country Planning was founded within the Faculty and in 1989 was renamed the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. In 1954, a Chair of Architectural Science was created around which the Department of Architectural Science developed. In 1989 the Department was renamed the Department of Architectural and Design Science.

The Art Workshop became part of the Faculty in 1990 having previously been a central academic service unit which developed from resources provided by the Faculty in the 1960s. In 1984, the Faculty moved into the purpose-designed Wilkinson Building which also contains the most comprehensive architecture and planning library in Australia, the Denis Winston Architecture Library. The Faculty contains three research centres and a continuing education unit. The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning has a fine tradition of undergraduate, graduate education and research under the direction of the heads of department and other senior academic staff. Many former students now hold the most senior professional and academic posts in Australia and around the world.

The University of Sydney and our Faculty have a deep and abiding committment to undergraduate and graduate education. It is an exciting time to be with us, as our academic staff, associate researchers and postdoctoral fellows and students push on the frontiers of knowledge and professional practice pertaining to architecture and other allied fields focusing on the built environment.