General Information

Anadolu University, Faculty of Architecture and Design founded in 2011 by giving priority to the Universal ideas and values. Focal points of the faculty are; to encourage critical and reflective thinking , to develop the investigative, aesthetic sensitivities , creative sides, vocational responsibilities and selfconfidence of the students, , to empower to become visionary, socially and environmentally aware members of the local and global professional design community, to provide the capability of computer and information technologies to design processes.Nowadays, Faculty consists of Department of Architecture which is founded in 1984 as a Department of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture , Department of Interior Design which is founded in 1993 as a Department of Faculty of Fine Arts. Education in Industrial Design and Fashion Design departments started respectively in 2000 and 2001 as the departments of School of Industrial Arts. These departments offer undergraduate and graduate programmes.

Design studios, workshops such as furniture, cast, plastic etc. and computer laboratories that have many programmes which are acceptable from the industrial sector and world standards , support the training programme of the faculty. With this characteristic , faculty aims to train students who have universal ideas and values, innovator, contemporary and creator , capability of sensibility to aesthetics and environment, professional responsibility and self-confedence , applicability of computer and information technologies to the design process, open to the interdisciplinary works etc.

During the training and education process; theoretical courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, fashion shows, sketches and trips for research and survey are handled as a whole . Distinguished academicians of the Faculty actively contribute to the industrial organizations and sector of the society and remain in contact with its environment . They also actively involved in research projects some of them are carried out in cooperation with the sector. Depending on the cooperation with industrial sector, students are encourage to participate to the national/international competitions that are organized by private firms and institutions , depending on this they have won a lot of prizes such as World Star 2012 and World Star 2013.

We have an agreement with many universities towards the ERASMUS,MEVLANA and FARABİ programmes. We also have the optional English Preparatory Programme .

DEPARTMENTS: Department of Industrial Design, Department of Interior Design, Department of Architecture, Department of Fashion Design