ARCHITECTURE

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

Bachelor of Architecture (B.ARCH)

This program aims to educate students in the fundamentals of the science and architectural design with emphasis on developing the skills of innovation, creativity and critical thinking in the design of the built environment.

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Architectural Design - Minor

The minor in architectural design provides students with an understanding of the basics and the underlying principles of architectural design. It serves students in all majors.

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Design of Interior Spaces - Minor

The Department of Architecture in collaboration with the department of Arts offers a minor in the Design of Interior Spaces. The minor builds on two strong and successful programs available at AUC namely the Architectural Engineering and the Graphic Design programs. It serves students in all majors at AUC.

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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.

Reimagining Cairo: AUC Alum, Student Win 3rd Worldwide in 2022 Berkeley Prize Competition for Design Excellence

May 24, 2022

Mahmoud El Kady ‘21 and Tia Ashraf, anthropology graduating senior, won third place worldwide in the 2022 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence competition.

AUC Faculty and Students to Compete in International Solar Decathlon Competition - the 'Olympics of Sustainable Building'

April 20, 2021

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

October 29, 2019

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.