Overview

Architecture & Environmental Design specialty was founded in 1986 and became a department named "Environmental Design Department" in 1996. In year 2004, based on its development, architecture design pathway was added to this Specialty. Being approved by the Academy, it was formally renamed "Architecture & Environmental Design Department" .

At  the beginning when this specialty  was founded, our teaching staff teamed up to found the "Guangdong Jasmine Design & Construction Company." It was an exploratory project on relationship between modern design practice and management , which was the first one of this kind in arts institutes nationwide. From then, a team of high professional
standards in combining creating, teaching and researching has come into being, and played an important role in Chinese architectural and environmental design education. The awards and recognitions that our students gained reflect our worldwide reputations for excellence. Our awards include:
'03,'04 golden awards of National Award of Academic
Environmental Design Specialty for Graduation Projects£»
golden award of First Competition of Architecture Design for College Students of Guangdong ;Our '05 graduates', led by Luo Zhenhua, research project "wind's home - heat comfortable home research" was published as a cover page on the ' 05 sixth edition oxford's Brooks College magazine
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We are always looking to develop and enhance the way we deliver our courses, so many improvements and modifications have been made within these 20 years and will be making in the future. Our emphasis lies on seeking to be at the forefront of learning, creativity and practice. Making our designs work for the society is our goal.

Education Target
Our aim is to educate diverse range of creative graduates in architecture, interior and landscape design, who are capable to work in a self-managed way to achieve original work of either a theoretical or practical or managing nature.

Specialty & Teaching Staff
By present, Department of Architecture & Environmental
Design includes 3 specialties, which are architecture design, interior design and landscape design. We have 20 academic staffs including 2 professors, 6 associated professors, 6 lecturers as well as 6 teaching assistants, and appoint 5 specialists who have worldwide reputations as our guest professors.

Degrees and Certificates
We offer two levels of education: honours degrees and certificated degrees.

1. Honours Degree Courses
We welcome nationwide applicants to apply for 4-year BA(hons) degrees and 3-year MA(hons) degrees. Currently, there are 240 BA (hons) students and 20 MA(hons) students enrolled. Also, in the 2-year "postgraduate courses" that held by GAFA , as well as the 3-year MA(hons) courses, we
undertake the responsibilities in providing specialist education in interior and landscape design.

2. Certificated Degree Courses
At present, we offer to all over the nation 1-year senior further education and professional development courses, which aim at BA(hons) graduates who want to progress their abilities in practice. This oneyear program includes 8-10 courses. Students finish all courses with passing grades will get their certificates.

Resources & Facilities
Since its inception, department has attached much importance to improving its facilities. And in pace with the construction of Guangzhou College Town, this improvement has been qualitatively done: we have our vast-invested "architectural model studio;" each specialty has realized multi-media support, that an unparalleled environment with the best resources and equipment available is come into being.
     
Besides, our department is equipped with wide range of specialist workshops and studios to provide practicing opportunities for students. Students can visit any workshops and studios of Jasmine Design & Build Company, and get involved in the development of project work. Also, some of the awarded works of our staff such as Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Changlong Hotel, Yujingwan Hotel of Dongguan, etc.,
are taken as the design education bases, by which students can get "real-time" experience of different features of space design, and supply it to their future commitment.