B.Sc. In Architecture

About Us

The basic goal of TED University Department of Architecture is to provide an architectural education that aims to train students to become architects who are able to meet the contemporary world’s increasing demand for flexible thinking and production; and who can follow technological, social, and practical developments day today. The Department of Architecture incorporates the student-oriented education policy of TED University and the practice of learning by doing, which is an essential requirement of architectural education and aims to define an education environment that facilitates interdisciplinary information exchange.

With the purpose of nurturing a critical culture in the built environment and the mutual relation of architectural education with social and cultural context, the program focuses on developing skills for inquisitive research, analytical thinking, innovative problem solving, intellectual productivity, and sensitiveness for professional ethics. An additional aim of the program is to create awareness of sustainability and sustainable environments. Accordingly, the students are encouraged to develop innovative methods for the design and construction of a sustainable physical environment.

In this context, TED University Department of Architecture provides its students with a practice-based, research-oriented experience, within independent and unique learning and research atmosphere.

The program aims that its students intensively engage with professional practices besides following the contemporary academic and technological advancements on their way to completing their education. For this aim, it plans to establish an environment, in light of technological advancements, which allows the students to question and experience new environments and tools. Additionally, students and researchers are encouraged to monitor contemporary academic research closely and are expected to direct studies in these fields.

5 Reasons to Choose TED University

1. Liberal Arts Education

LA education prepares students for a modern and complex world that necessitates writing and speaking effectively, thinking critically and creatively, acquiring problem-solving skills, and being flexible and adaptable.

2. Career Opportunities

TEDU has one of the strongest alumni and industry network not only in Turkey but also in all over the world which make a successful career planning possible for our students and provide opportunities for them.

3. City University

TEDU campus is in the city center and equidistant from everywhere, which provides easy access to our students with its location at the intersection of the transportation network.

4. Scholarship Opportunites

There are possibilities of 25%-75% tuition fee waiver or 100% tuition fee exemption for International students

5. English Medium Education

Our goal is to empower our graduates with knowledge in their fields of study and academic English language skills at an advanced level that will serve them in their continuing academic and professional careers.

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Teaching and Learning

TED University Department of Architecture provides an education, which largely relies on design studios in order to equip the students with the necessary professional knowledge and skills. The architectural design studios are student-oriented laboratories for education and research were direct, personal and collective experiences are integrated to support each other, as well as being the main medium where students develop their professional equipment. The content and the variety of the other field courses and the theoretical and practical knowledge that they provide assist the design process at the studios and contribute to the experience. The departmental courses vary ranging from architectural history to architectural culture; from contemporary construction technology to construction materials; and from information technologies to the study of the production of the built environment. The knowledge and experience that these courses provide for the students are supported with seminars, conferences and trips.

The communication that is promoted in between different faculties and the interactive education that is provided by TED University enables the students to actively participate in the process to conduct disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research and application, as well as acquiring technical and theoretical knowledge. The flexible structure of the program is considered as a system, which enables the students to choose departmental and non-departmental elective courses and improve themselves in fields of their own interests. An educational structure is targeted where the students are able to use technical infrastructure, facilities and knowledge of other departments and faculties as a result of the rich pool of elective courses to be formed in cooperation of different faculties and the inter-disciplinary studies, and where minor programs are widely available besides the major undergraduate programs.

The program of TED University Department of Architecture presents for the students a dynamic medium open to a dense contact with different fields of knowledge and experience that stands both in and outside of the field of architecture. The students are also encouraged to diversify and intensify their activities and experiences in fields of larger social, cultural and everyday life, in order to utilize such experiences to enrich their professional equipment. The Department of Architecture highlights the use of technical and technological infrastructural facilities and technologies of information and communication as well as their potential in producing contemporary discourse and focuses on assisting the students to develop habits on research, questioning and critical thinking and internalize them in their professional activity, besides the essential skills of design and application.

Career Opportunities

The graduates of TED University Department of Architecture can specialize in the theory of architecture, design of structural elements, knowledge of material properties and their uses, history of architecture, restoration, information technologies, and computational design. With urban design, media, and design they can also work in state institutions and organizations, construction firms, and architectural offices. The graduates can also continue their graduate and Ph.D. educations and work as researchers and academicians in the discipline of architecture.

Summer Practice

Summer Practice I – Construction Site - ARCH399

• Summer Practice Assessment Guidelines
• Internship Approval Form
• Intern Evaluation Form (English)

Summer Practice II- Architectural Office - ARCH499

• Summer Practice Assessment Guidelines
• Internship Approval Form
• Intern Evaluation Form (English)

Program Outcomes

By the end of this degree, students should be able to do the following to show their understanding and creativity:

1. Interpret architectural knowledge from the perspectives of its history, theories, paradigms and conceptual frameworks, in the context of related arts within an interdisciplinary approach.
2. Integrate knowledge on planning and urban design, from the perspective of their historical background and strategies and current urban discourses.
3. Demonstrate competence in written and verbal expression of ideas and thoughts both in Turkish and English.
4. Use up-to-date information and communication technologies in thinking, producing and presentation processes.
5. Apply theoretical and practical knowledge to praxis.
6. Develop self-discipline for lifelong learning, time management, methodological study and research habits.
7. Identify and criticize the relationship between people and built environment by relating ethical issues, social factors, human behaviors and cultural diversities.
8. Develop skills for abstract, analytical and relational thinking in internalizing notions of design and design processes.
9. Generate designs and proposals employing basic architectural, environmental and universal design principles.
10. Develop an architectural project, individually and within a team integrating phases from formulation to completion, in a professional and collaborative context.
11. Evaluate current knowledge and praxis, using appropriate research methods, skilled questioning, critical thinking and ethical perspectives.
12. Develop personal creativity and skills to communicate creative ideas, perspectives, and solutions.