University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning

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:

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