The aim is to equip future architects with a comprehensive vision integrating various aspects of the built environment: how it is planned, designed, used and appreciated by society; and to prepare students for starting a successful professional and academic career as architects.
Programs
Architectural Engineering - BSc
Architectural Design - Minor
News
AUC Students Conceive Masterplan for Egypt's First-of-Its-Kind College Town
In partnership with real estate developer Tatweer Misr, students from AUC's Urban Design and Landscape Architecture course are working on proposals for Egypt's first-of-its-kind city for learning. Through urban design and planning, the student proposals are creatively addressing global concerns like climate change and catering to the sustainable lifestyle needs of university populations.
AUC Faculty and Students to Compete in International Solar Decathlon Competition - the 'Olympics of Sustainable Building'
AUC students, faculty and staff joined forces to compete in the Solar Decathlon Middle East (SDME) in Dubai in November 2021.
Using the 'Power of Design' to Shape the Future of Architecture and Autism
In 2002, Magda Mostafa, associate professor in the Department of Architecture, was approached by a group of parents to design Egypt’s first educational center for autism. She was eager to get to work, certain it would be easy with all the guidelines and research she’d find on how to design for individuals with autism. But to her surprise, she found “absolutely nothing.” No architect, she said, in Egypt or anywhere around the world had ever looked through and structured evidence-based methodology into this topic.
FACULTY SPOTLIGHTS
Notable Alumni
Omar Anas Lasheen '15
Amira AbdelRahman '14
