The Faculty of Architecture is committed to the study of the natural and man-made systems primarily comprising cities, buildings and industrial products.The Faculty and its curricula are organized around two basic disciplines of design and planning. Problems ranging from the creation of industrial products and architecture to landscapes and settlement systems are covered in lectures, field work and studios, where the aim is to bring together knowledge, methodology, theory and high levels of professional skills within the framework of projects.

GENERAL INFORMATION
The Faculty of Architecture is committed to the study of the natural and man-made systems primarily comprising cities, buildings and industrial products.The Faculty and its curricula are organized around two basic disciplines of design and planning. Problems ranging from the creation of industrial products and architecture to landscapes and settlement systems are covered in lectures, field work and studios, where the aim is to bring together knowledge, methodology, theory and high levels of professional skills within the framework of projects.

The curricula have a further aim of advancing a professional capacity in students to:

    * interrelate the local and the universal within the processes of design and planning of space, built form and industrial products,
    * identify and formulate problems, along with the generation and interpretation of knowledge relevant to the discipline, social and cultural contexts under study,
    * increase technical know-how, aesthetic sensibilities and moral concerns,
    * ensure specialization in key areas of interdisciplinary nature,
    * improve quality of research and design at every scale of person-environment interaction, with special emphases on energy , housing and settlement forms -both those that refer to our cultural heritage and those of a universal kind.

Within the scope of its commitments, the Faculty aims to promote its relation with the other national and international universities and undertakes pure and applied research, consultancy to public and private sectors and associative functions in the professional milieu both at national and international levels.

The Faculty of Architecture has opportunities for scholarly and applied research as well as design work which the staff and students engage in at different levels. The aim of the research programs is to contribute to knowledge, to promote good design and integrated planning as well as to provide pertinent material for more comprehensive teaching. Students are encouraged to participate in research at undergraduate, Master's and Doctoral levels, and through it are brought into direct contact with the actual conditions and practical problems in Turkey and the world. The staff are all highly qualified and well-versed in their subjects. The students who choose to come to METU Faculty of Architecture have consistently been the best prepared and most motivated ones.

The Faculty enjoys most up-to-date laboratories, workshops, a printing house and computer centers and a unique archive of slides, maps and printed material. To share this wealth of resource and experience, the Faculty organizes frequent exhibitions, symposia and other events in cooperation with national and international bodies. It has a flourishing publication program, an international journal as well as a student and staff population involved in a wide range of academic, professional and extra-curricular activities both National and International. All these help continue the tradition of METU Faculty of Architecture in graduating well-educated professionals with a wide range of sensibilities, skills, involvements and commitments.